The growing requirement for mobile access and BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) can give organizations
significant headaches in areas of security, management of devices, and content availability. How employees
access corporate information is changing and organizations need to respond to these changes or risk having...
Nearly two dozen privacy and civil liberties groups contend the Senate cyberthreat information sharing bill could provide a backdoor to allow the National Security Agency to spy on Americans.
Could too much regulatory oversight hinder cyberthreat information sharing, rather than encourage it? That's an increasing concern for bankers, who argue regulators could bog down progress in cybersecurity.
Tim Pawlenty, CEO of the Financial Services Roundtable, says the only way to ensure adequate cyberthreat information sharing is through federal legislation that would furnish liability protection and other incentives.
Banking institutions must improve how they analyze cyber-threat intelligence. But without better tools, security leaders can't adequately anticipate new attacks, says Greg Garcia, the new executive director of the FSSCC.
In the wake of its massive data breach, Target Corp. has hired as its first CISO an executive with information security leadership experience at two of the nation's largest corporations.
Luxury retailer Neiman Marcus is searching for its first CISO following the company's major data breach last year. Security experts weigh in on the attributes of ideal candidates and offer advice for how they should tackle the job.
The Financial Stability Oversight Council says banking regulators need to ensure institutions are expanding their cyber-intelligence sharing and third-party oversight as attacks against the financial infrastructure mount.
The word 'security' takes on a whole new level of importance when you take a job in federal law enforcement. Joshua Belk, CSO of the FBI's San Francisco division, offers career insights for security pros.
Banking experts say the Retail Industry Leader Association's launch of a cyberthreat information sharing initiative is a good first step toward thwarting breaches, but it should build on the models used by other industries.
Conventional wisdom dictates that the high demand for IT security practitioner would cause salaries to rise, perhaps significantly. But a new study by SANS shows only a slight fattening of paychecks for many IT security professionals.
In this resource, Dr. Alan Snell, former CMIO, and Jeffrey Short, a healthcare attorney, share insights on medical device risks that are easily missed, and easily catastrophic, with repercussions ranging from HIPAA violations to patient harm.
More importantly, they offer guidance on what healthcare leaders can...
The Obama administration has issued a policy statement that says businesses sharing cyberthreat information with one another are not violating antitrust laws.
In an exclusive interview, Kevin Charest, CISO of the Department of Health and Human Services, discusses recent healthcare sector cybersecurity drills, as well as an update of HealthCare.gov security.
Security and risk professionals recognize the value and benefits of implementing an employee-monitoring program. Privacy advocates and legal and human resources professionals see potentially unwarranted invasion of employee privacy as reasons not to monitor, or at least to restrict monitoring to instances where enough...
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