"Persistent" is the operative word about the advanced persistent threat that has struck RSA and its SecurID products. "If the bad guys out there want to get to someone ... they can," says David Navetta of the Information Law Group.
"It is the biggest breach we have ever seen; and to say no financial information has been stolen is, well, understating the massive breach and concern," says Neil Schwartzman, founder and chief security specialist at CASL Consulting.
The National Institute of Standards and Technology and the Department of Health and Human Services' Office for Civil Rights will hold their fourth annual healthcare information security conference May 10-11 in Washington.
"When it comes to APTs ... you don't bother to just simply hack the organization and its infrastructure; you focus much more of your attention on hacking the employees," says Uri Rivner, head of new technologies, identity protection and verification at RSA.
When it comes to authentication and identity management, state governments face challenges and vulnerabilities of their own making, says Brent Crossland of Entrust.
Let's hope the final version of the Federal Health IT Strategic Plan for 2011-2015 contains more details about new privacy and security initiatives than the draft that was recently issued.
A survey of American households - the same one used to determine the national unemployment rate - shows that 37,000 individuals in the United States consider themselves as information security analysts.
Russ Jones of Albert Einstein Healthcare Network describes why the delivery system shifted from magnetic stripe cards to smart cards for a variety of applications.
A California hospital is notifying more than 514,000 patients of a breach of a limited amount of personal information stemming from the theft of an unencrypted computer.
A proposed federal rule that would pave the way for formation of Accountable Care Organizations to coordinate care of chronically ill Medicare patients emphasizes the need to protect the privacy of information shared among ACO participants.
A proposed federal rule that would pave the way for formation of Accountable Care Organizations to coordinate care of chronically ill Medicare patients emphasizes the need to protect the privacy of information shared among ACO participants.
March's top news and views: DOD officials explain how a WikiLeaks breach will not happen again, RSA chief technology officer discusses the challenges in dealing with advanced persistent threat attacks and how Ohio decided on a NIST framework. And don't miss our month-in-review podcast by Executive Editor Eric Chabrow.
"We really need to speak the language of business and focus less on the language of IT, and that involves risk management" Iowa CISO Jeff Franklin says. "You really need to target those resources to your most critical systems."
Patrick Gorman, a former associate director of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, is the new chief information security officer and senior vice president at Bank of America, the nation's largest bank company.
New authentication guidance, when it is passed down federal banking regulators, needs to pay more attention to mobile, says former Bank of America executive David Shroyer.
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