Venkatesh Subramaniam, CISO of Idea Cellular, describes how Indian security practitioners should communicate to business leaders about the evolving threat landscape in order to get the funding they need to secure enterprise infrastructure.
Weaponized roller coasters? Kidnappers hacking babycams? Forget over-the-top "CSI: Cyber" hacking plots. The hackers behind the Rogers ISP breach, in their quest for bitcoins, claim they wielded nothing more serious than a telephone call.
Chris Buse, CISO for the state of Minnesota, says centralizing IT systems should make it easier to defend against cyber-attacks because there are fewer computing environments to protect.
Security leaders expect the new Union budget to give a needed boost to cybersecurity education, as well as increased investment in critical infrastructure, biometrics and surveillance to fight cybercrime.
President Obama has tapped veteran CIO Tony Scott as the top government IT official whose responsibilities include overseeing agencies' compliance with FISMA, the law that governs federal government IT security.
If 2014 was a harbinger of things to come, 2015 will be a banner year for IT security employment. Government statistics show that employment in one segment of the IT security workforce - information security analysts - soared by 42 percent in 2014.
Driven by the spectre of external threats, attacks and growing business expectations, can CISOs focus on risk management and take a more integrated and systematic approach to defend against attacks?
As David Shearer steps in as the new executive director of (ISC)², he inherits a huge challenge: How does the consortium respond appropriately to the global information security staffing shortage?
Luxury retailer Neiman Marcus has hired its first chief information security officer following its data breach late last year that compromised approximately 350,000 payment cards.
What advice does the first CISO have for today's security leaders? Steve Katz speaks up on top security threats, how to defend against them and what it takes to lead an effective security team.
How banks and law enforcement can work together to fight global cybercrime was a hot topic at our Fraud Summit Toronto. And the discussion will continue at our Sept. 23 summit in London.
General Services Administration Chief Information Officer Sonny Hashmi is on a mission to revamp the way the federal agency approaches information technology projects, including how it incorporates security into its IT initiatives.
IT security expert Bruce Schneier, now the chief technologist at an incident response provider, sees tools that help enterprises respond to a data breach being used for other unexpected events.
To fill a gap in professional development and educational resources for healthcare information security leaders, the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives has launched a new offshoot group for healthcare CISOs.
Working as a chief security officer in law enforcement is much different than filling a security role for a private sector business, says Joshua Belk, CSO at the FBI's San Francisco division, who offers career tips.
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