Net Neutrality in the US and the Digital Economy Act in the UK are attempts by Governments to start to legislate the Internet.Certainly the Digital Economy Act in the UK was written to prevent the piracy of film, music, photography etc. For what it's worth I don't agree with the measures in the Act, which gives the Government power to checktraffic and potentially block sites involved in the breach of copyright...

 https://www.infosecisland.com/blogview/4012-Internet-Legislation-and-Piracy.html

An organisation’s security program protects 2 types of resources. One is secrets that confer long-term competitive advantage and the other is custodial data assets that are protected by regulation. Unfortunately, it is compliance not security that drives the security budgets, but this results in an imbalance because corporate secrets comprise of two-thirds of the value of the firms’ information portfolio...

https://www.infosecisland.com/blogview/4008-Why-Corporate-Secrets-Must-be-Protected.html

With data sources growing exponentially and competitive pressures at an all time high, the need to synthesize and extract meaning is critical to success. Centrifuge provides businesses with the freedom to explore data, uncover new insight and improve decision-making...

 https://www.infosecisland.com/blogview/3982-Interview-with-Tony-Agresta-VP-of-Marketing-for-Centrifuge.html

As a professional penetration tester, I help organizations identify and validate vulnerabilities in their systems everyday. However even in today's heighten awareness for vulnerabilities in web apps, I tend to find myself involved in more network-centric pen tests vs. application-centric pen tes...

https://www.infosecisland.com/blogview/3910-Web-Application-Insecurity-VIDEO.html

Mark Bregman, Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Offcer, Symantec Corporation says that SaaS has the potential to be a game changer. In a conversation with Ashwani Mishra, Bregman talks about the company’s strategy in the security and storage areas and how it plans to...

https://www.infosecisland.com/blogview/3857-Interview-with-Symantec-CTO-Mark-Bregman.html

Writing an article about Chinese hackers (all 3 parts were published here - please use the search to find them) I had to explain why it's difficult to fight against them due to a wide range of tools, methods and existing vulnerability of operating systems and applications in addition to the ...

https://www.infosecisland.com/blogview/3954-The-cyber-gangsters-weapons-and-the-state-of-Internet-security-.html

Scenario planning is an important tool in the realm of cyber security.  Stakeholder teams are assembled to create plausible scenarios of possible future threats. 

Repercussions are predicted to help quantify risk and justify mitigating investments in technology and changes to policy and operations.

Here are several cyber security scenarios. The scary thing is, they have already  occurred!  While the incidents covered may affect adjacent or even unrelated industries it is advisable that IT security practitioners and other stake holders are aware of the threats posed by the prior occurrence of these scenarios...

In a 2008 speech to the Texas General Counsel Forum, former United States Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty provided his perspective on Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) compliance investigations and the Department of Justice (DOJ) enforcement actions. From his experience as the former seco...

 https://www.infosecisland.com/blogview/3950-FCPA-Compliance-and-Continuous-Controls-Monitoring.html

ID Theft is a personal problem because it focuses on the personally identifiable information of individuals, but it’s a company problem too. It’s not only about how you control the flow of information and what information you have within the organization...

https://www.infosecisland.com/blogview/3949-ID-Theft-Its-What-You-Cant-Control.html