By Robert Siciliano, Identity Theft Expert Congress is still considering the Informed P2P User Act, a law that would supposedly make it safer to use peer-to-peer file sharing software, an effort that is similar to banning mosquitoes from sucking blood. It just isn’t happening. The only foolproof way to prevent accidental ...
By Bozidar Spirovski, CISSP, MCSA, MCP Every organization has some form of Information Security Risk Assessment - some perform a formal risk assessment, others simply use their practical experience. Whatever method is chosen, it always helps to use a tool which will assist the organization in performing the risk assessment in a ...
From The Internet Security Alliance Who: The Internet Security Alliance (ISA) What: The ISA will release a new cybersecurity report, which proposes frameworks for taking key issues in the Obama Administration’s “Cyberspace Policy Review” document to the next level, in an effort to achieve tangible progress. The report will include frameworks for ...
By Simon Heron, CISSP Internet Security Analyst Traditionally, malware has tended to originate mainly from countries like Brazil and America, with other nations such as Korea and India joining them in the top 10 malware charts in recent years. However, October’s threat stats reveal that the level of malware originating from the ...
Daniel Wallace, Information Security Consultant at Grow Forward How vendors, integrators and consultants can position themselves to support CISO’s with corporate social media adoption... In the past I have written articles and advised CISO’s on how social media technology can be used as a vehicle for information security awareness. ...
By Robert Siciliano, Identity Theft Expert The National Foundation for Credit Counselors, which sponsors Protect Your Identity Week, has compiled a number of identity theft myths. To support their efforts, the Santa Fe Group Vendor Council Awareness and Education Subcommittee has helped to clarify some common misinformation with regards to this ...
By Richard Stiennon, Chief Research Analyst, IT-Harvest There are four pillars to the cyber war realm: intelligence, technology, logistics, and command. One premise is that cyber warfare is a component of the ongoing struggle between philosophies of politics, governance, and markets to be waged by opposing interests be they nation vs. nation, ...
By Rebecca Herold (The Privacy Professor) CIPP, CISSP, CISM, CISA, FLMI Over the years there have been many... too many...instances where doctors have performed the wrong types of surgeries on patients, and even the wrong surgeries on completely wrong patients... There was a very interesting, and very concerning, news report yesterday, "Rhode ...
By John Watkins, Attorney with Chorey, Taylor & Feil The protection of trade secrets through litigation has generally been limited to civil lawsuits, typically filed under state law statutory or common law provisions. This is true even though federal and state statutes have provided criminal penalties for trade secret misappropriation. The conventional w […]
By Cara Garretson, Veteran Business and Technology Journalist Security giant Symantec (SYMC) announced second fiscal quarter results that were down 3 percent compared to the same period a year ago, but up slightly from the last quarter of this year, offering some evidence that IT spending is on the rebound. Symantec, which ...