The White House cybersecurity coordinator, National Security Agency director and top officials from the departments of Commerce, Homeland Security and Justice have scheduled a briefing on the administration's cybersecurity policy the day after President Obama delivers his State of the Union address.
Britain has an IT skills gap problem, not unlike its American cousin's, as well as nearly every other nationality. Besides technical experts, society needs psychologists, law enforcers, strategists, risk managers, lawyers and accountants with cyber know-how.
"We simply did not follow the best practices we recommend to our customers by making certain our product was on all physical and virtual machines within Bit9," says Chief Executive Patrick Morley.
Security threats to healthcare organizations are on the rise - and so are regulatory requirements. Kim Singletary of McAfee discusses the top breach prevention and response challenges for healthcare organizations in 2013.
President Obama devoted 26 words to cybersecurity in his 2012 State of the Union address. What will he say this year? We asked IT security experts to play speechwriter, and here's what they would have the president say to Congress on cybersecurity.
The Federal Reserve confirms it's been breached. What message does this attack send to banking institutions and their vendors about the heightened urgency to implement security best practices?
The compromise of hundreds of payment cards, apparently tied to fraud worldwide, has been linked to a network hack affecting an Arizona supermarket chain. And the attack involved a new kind of malware, the chain says.
The new, much more objective guidance for reporting breaches that's included in the HIPAA omnibus rule will result in an increase in notifications, predicts privacy law expert Marcy Wilder.
"The attackers were extremely sophisticated, and we believe other companies and organizations have also been recently similarly attacked," Twitter's Bob Lord says.
The Government Accountability Office says the approach taken by the Federal Communications Commission to respond to a security lapse resulted in unnecessary risk that sensitive information could be disclosed, modified or obtained without authorization.
In the aftermath of a data breach last year that affected 780,000 individuals, Utah legislators are considering a bill that would mandate state agencies identify and implement best practices for protecting data.
"We felt that it was very important to come out with this and say this was how easy it is for them to break into any U.S. company, and here's how they're doing it," The New York Times' Nicole Perlroth says.
A quick glance at a new survey suggests that businesses care more about protecting the privacy of their customers than governments do about their citizens. That's what the numbers say. But the numbers don't necessarily tell the whole story.
Although a hacktivist group says it has suspended distributed-denial-of-service attacks on U.S. banking institutions, banking and security leaders aren't convinced. "Banks should certainly remain on guard," says Gartner's Avivah Litan.
The key to effective breach response is to not take a one-size-fits-all approach, says attorney Ronald Raether, who outlines top strategies organizations should consider when dealing with an incident.
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