Reading through the trade press, DLP vendor marketing collateral and various forums on information security,  the conventional wisdom is that the key threat to an organization is trusted insiders...

Now that the 3 major search engines Google, Bing and Yahoo index real-time search for Twitter and other social networks, consumers and employees must be aware that not all relevant search is a safe click. Scammers and identity thieves see this as real-time free advertising for their malware...

Enrique Salem, President and CEO of Symantec, in a conversation with Vinita Gupta, discusses the new challenges that CIOs are facing and Symantec's roadmap for the years ahead...

When working on a security assessment, it is always helpful to use an automated tool that compares the key elements to the known best practices, and generates an overview result set...

The GRC (governance, risk and compliance) market is driven by three factors: government regulation such as Sarbanes-Oxley, industry compliance such as PCI DSS 1.2 and growing numbers of data security breaches and Internet acceptable usage violations in the workplace. $14BN a year is spent in the US alone on corporate-governance-related IT spending...

 In 1975 my father, a doctor, was approached by some entrepreneurs. They had a brilliant idea. They were going to purchase a mainframe computer and sell computing on a timeshare basis to anyone who wanted to connect to it.  Charges would be based on compute cycles and applications would be provided pre-loaded.  Sound familiar?  That was cloud computing.   Today’s cloud is certainly different in scale. The flexible computing platform is provided by multiple virtual instances of many computers.  The applications are provided by specialist companies like Salesforce.com for customer relationship management (CRM) and Google or Yahoo! for email, calendaring and document creation.  The network is different than 1975 and the computing infrastructure has improved but the real difference between today and then is the threat.

Whether or not you believe social media to be as asset or liability to your organization, believe this; there are close to a half a billion people signed up to and involved in social media. Last time I checked, Facebook had more than 400 million users and Twitter has more than 50 million.  Some say social media sites such as Facebook and other combined have close to a billion views per month. WEB 2.0 is alive and well and has changed the game for the IT professional.

Most would agree that globalization, fed by technological advances in the information system and telecommunications realms, has overwhelmingly been a "good thing". Our world is connected like never before, and those formerly isolated are now part of the landscape, able to access critical medical information, tap educational resources and answer almost any question in two clicks. 

I recently had the pleasure of making the acquaintance of the illustrious Theresa Payton, who's long and vibrant career has spanned multiple industry sectors and government service at the highest levels.

Last week, this site [databreaches.net] received a lead about a security problem involving the web site of a Durex product. On March 5, a customer reportedly discovered that anyone could view his and other customers’ orders on the kohinoorpassion.com web site by simply inserting a different order ID number in the url without any login required. Names, addresses, phone numbers, and type of products ordered were all there for ready viewing. The orders had not been placed on the kohninoorpassion.com web site, but on the Durex India e-store site...