Not reporting a data breach – your reputation may suffer but what about your pocketbook?
July 23rd, 2012
How would you feel if a restaurant, hotel or retailer knew your information had been compromised, but you didn’t find out until fraudulent charges started appearing on your credit card? Or if a company you had invested tens of thousands of dollars in didn’t let you know that it had suffered a data breach? Not [...]
By: Fred Donovan - Technology Reporter
HIEs Prepare for Flood of Patient Data, Demanding Privacy Mandates
June 26th, 2012
As health information exchanges (HIEs) prepare for more rigorous data exchange requirements under Stage 2 of the “meaningful use” mandates from Centers of Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), they must also be prepared to take more rigorous steps to protect patient privacy and security. Under the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) [...]
By: Fred Donovan - Technology Reporter
Ensure a Secure Transition to IPv6
May 31st, 2012
IPv6 is coming soon, whether information security professionals like it or not. So it’s best to be prepared rather than ignore or resist the process. On June 6, dubbed World IPv6 Launch Day by the Internet Society, major ISPs, home networking equipment manufacturers, and web companies around the world will enable IPv6 for their products [...]
Checkmark Compliance Will Get You Nowhere But Hacked
May 7th, 2012
It used to be the only thing you could count on was death and taxes. But these days, you can bet on hackers going after your organization’s data too. Motives may differ – consider the hackers who want to make a statement and the cyber criminals who look to make a buck – but in [...]
By: Paul Zimski - IT Security Expert
Security vs. Operations
April 18th, 2012
Time and again, we’ve heard IT teams lament over how security continues to challenge the operational aspects of an organization. And these issues will not likely resolve themselves. While there isn’t a silver bullet that will “fix” this situation, there are best practices that will definitely improve security and increase operational efficiency. For some tips, we [...]
By: Paul Zimski - IT Security Expert
Security and Operations: Back to the Basics
April 12th, 2012
We’re back with part II in our podcast series on security versus operations with Mike Rothman, president and analyst with Securosis. In this post, Mike and I will discuss getting back to the basics of endpoint security, as small and mid-size organizations should not even consider employing in-depth cyber security measures until they have the [...]
By: Paul Zimski - IT Security Expert
Security and Operations: Guidelines to Striking a Balance
April 4th, 2012
Time and again, we’ve heard IT teams lament over how security continues to challenge the operational aspects of an organization. And these issues will not likely resolve themselves. While there isn’t a silver bullet that will “fix” this situation, there are best practices that will definitely improve security and increase operational efficiency. Download the podcast. This [...]
PCI spotlight on Europe
September 23rd, 2010
Alan Bentley, SVP International Sales, Lumension, asks Bob Tarzey, Analyst and Director with Quocirca about the difference between PCI compliance and a strong security posture. Q: PCI standards are designed to be a starting point to helping build a strong security posture. Are retailers/organisations aware that they need to do more than achieve PCI compliance [...]
By: Chris Merritt - Dir. Solutions Marketing
Critical Infrastructure Protection
July 8th, 2010
Last week I participated in an interesting roundtable discussion with Michael Rasmussen from Corporate Integrity and my fellow blogger Paul Henry. We were discussing how to secure the nation’s critical infrastructure – a topic which is relevant to organizations which own or operate critical infrastructure (which, according to the 2009 National Infrastructure Protection Plan (PDF), [...]
Lessons from the Road…Tokyo, London, Sydney: Part II
June 23rd, 2010
As I mentioned in my last post, after quite a bit of overseas travel recently, I observed a few trends that apply globally – at its core, what trends are driving technology trends in IT environments, today? In addition to the platform-centric approach being firmly planted both here and overseas and the efficiency of agents [...]
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