The bad news is that banks and businesses have not made great progress in the fight against account takeover fraud. The good news is: They have the strategies and tools to win this fight in 2011.
Altra Federal Credit Union developed a calculated strategy before moving to the cloud -- advice all financial institutions should follow, says Brian Boettcher, VP of IT, who shares his lessons learned.
This week's top news and views: Cutting funding for IT security could prove dicey, comments from DHS Undersecretary Philip Reitinger and Sen. Thomas Carper; year-long Texas breach exposed personal information of 3.5 million; bill unveiled to safeguard personal data online; and Google and Microsoft battle over cloud...
The ongoing effort to enable the secure exchange of health information from coast to coast recently got a very important boost when five well-known healthcare organizations joined forces to serve as trailblazers.
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT plans to take an incremental approach to testing components of a new health information exchange architecture envisioned by the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology.
As Congress and the White House look for ways to cut the federal budget, one area that could prove dicey is IT security, contends Department of Homeland Security's Philip Reitinger.
When it comes to authentication and identity management, state governments face challenges and vulnerabilities of their own making, says Brent Crossland of Entrust.
Domain Name Security - it's one of the most neglected aspects of information security, but critical to healthcare organizations, says Mark Beckett of Secure 64.
The Oklahoma State Department of Health is notifying nearly 133,000 individuals about a health information breach involving the theft of a laptop computer containing personal information.
A consortium of five leading healthcare organizations hopes to demonstrate the secure national exchange of health information, says James Walker, M.D. of Geisinger Health System.
CISOs today are evolving into strategic and risk managers, going far beyond the old-fashioned role of working solely within the IT department to manage and protect data.
"It you were to ask me to rank order where industries are in terms of their cybersecurity capability, I think power is at or close to the bottom of the list, says Army Gen. Keith Alexander, head of the U.S. Cyber Command Commander and National Security Agency.
Smartphones are ubiquitous in organizations across industry today. But how secure are these devices -- and what security and liability vulnerabilities do they expose?
State agencies transferred information containing unencrypted, personal information to unsecured servers between January and May 2010, but the exposure was not discovered until two weeks ago, Texas Comptroller Susan Combs says.
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