Bringing Your Own Device raises jitters among employers, who worry about exposing or losing sensitive data, and employees, who fret about their bosses spying on them. Despite these anxieties, the trend will continue because that's what people want.
IT security leaders rely on penetration testing to determine whether applications are secure. But penetration tests can't be a primary source of assurance, says Jeff Williams, co-founder of OWASP.
With the tardy addition of the Sutter Health breach, the U.S. tally of major healthcare information breaches now includes 385 incidents affecting more than 19 million individuals since September 2009.
Five years ago, the Council of Registered Ethical Security Testers began as an organization to bring standardization to the penetration testing industry. Today, CREST's scope is expanding across industries and global regions, says president Ian Glover.
The Europay, MasterCard, Visa standard, commonly used in most global markets, is coming to the U.S. The sooner issuers, acquirers and merchants initiate migrations, the better, says Stephanie Ericksen, head of authentication product integration at Visa.
The Europay, MasterCard, Visa standard, commonly used in most global markets, is coming to the U.S. The sooner issuers, acquirers and merchants initiate migrations, the better, says Stephanie Ericksen, head of authentication product integration at Visa.
Does the U.S. government's shuttering of the file-sharing website Megaupload.com show that new laws are not needed to battle intellectual property piracy? Brookings's Allan Friedman believes it does.
A group of Saudi Arabian hackers, identified as "Nightmare," conducted distributed denial-of-service attacks Jan. 16 against the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange and El Al, Israel's national carrier.
Wikipedia.org founder Jimmy Wales pledges to shutter the online encyclopedia from midnight Tuesday to midnight Wednesday to protest anti-piracy legislation before Congress that he contends would threaten Internet freedom if enacted.
Cybersecurity Coordinator Howard Schmidt recognizes the need to battle online piracy to protect U.S. intellectual property but contends legislation before Congress to do just that would unacceptably curtail Internet freedom and increase cybersecurity risks.
The insider poses one of the greatest and most damaging security risks any organization faces. So why do so many institutions fail when it comes to addressing this most obvious security risk?
Steven VanRoekel says the mobile revolution will fundamentally change the way the federal government serves the public and its employees. But in outlining the Federal Mobile Strategy, the federal CIO hardly mentions security and privacy.
How much do you know about the goings on in government information security over the past 12 months? Take our quiz to see how much you recall about occurrences reported by GovInfoSecurity in 2011.
Outrageous Facebook behavior by a contractor at a California hospital offers an eye-opening reminder about the need for a zero-tolerance policy when it comes to privacy violations.
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