Before entering a contract with a cloud computing company, organizations should consider three critical issues, says Feisal Nanji, executive director at the security consulting firm Techumen.
Organizations taking proper preventative measures realize a cost savings of nearly 25 percent over those that don't, an analysis of a survey sponsored by Hewlett-Packard reveals. Still, the study shows, it takes longer to resolve cyberattacks than it did a year ago.
"It's time to stop shifting the security burden onto retailers and restaurants like Margarita's," says Gartner analyst Avivah Litan on the latest payment card breach. "In fact, it was time for that over five years ago."
Extensive news coverage about the attacks against RSA and others have made customers jittery. "The publicity resulted in many customers' risk tolerance going down whilst their level of awareness and concern went up," says RSA CFO David Goulden.
The hacking group Anonymous, under the moniker Antisec in web postings, claims it breached the computers of FBI contractor ManTech as well as 70 law enforcement agencies in the United States.
"The lack of individual accountability over user accounts provides ample opportunities to conceal malicious activity such as theft or misuse of veteran data," VA Assistant Inspector General Belinda Finn says.
Scott Laliberte, managing director of Protiviti, wrote the book on penetration testing, and he has strong feelings about what organizations are doing right and wrong when assessing their information security risks today.
Despite previously announced plans to appeal last month's ruling in the ACH fraud lawsuit filed by Experi-Metal Inc., Comerica Bank now says it has resolved to pay the $560,000 in damages and close the case.
In the wake of natural disasters or global political unrest, financial institutions of all sizes must be mindful of international fraud schemes and suspicious activity, says EastNets' Paul Buelens.
About a dozen privacy controls are expected to be added to the next revision of NIST's security controls' guidance, SP 800-53, says NIST Senior Computer Scientist Ron Ross says.
DOD's ability to develop an overarching budget estimate for full-spectrum, cyberspace operations has been challenged by the absence of clear, agreed-upon departmentwide budget definitions, GAO auditors tell the House Armed Services Committee.
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