A new FBI policy on the use of cloud services by law enforcement agencies minimizes technological mandates and gives flexibility to individual organizations, two security experts say.
Termination of an employee after a breach should be reserved for repeat offenders, individuals who show a total disregard for the rules, those who seek to harm another or the most egregious incidents, security expert Mac McMillan contends.
Breaches are expensive, embarrassing and entice additional scrutiny from regulators and consumers alike. By taking eight key steps, you can protect private information and lessen the impact of breaches when they occur.
Educating customers about financial fraud and scams is not a nice-to-have; it's a necessity. If your customers won't protect themselves, then no campaign your organization puts forward will succeed, says BankWest's Patti Broer.
While user education is valuable, needed and helpful, there is one problem with this approach - it only partially works, and partially working is simply not good enough, security expert George Tubin contends.
Here's an argument for why recent indictments linked to what's been called the largest-ever card fraud scam won't deter fraud - and why improved security is a better deterrent.
Electronic banking fraud is as rampant as ever because of the failure to address one of the core problems, says security specialist Tom Wills, who describes why focusing only on technology to defeat Trojans will never work.
Reports continue to show that an overwhelming percentage of applications have serious vulnerabilities. The important takeaway here is that application security has not improved in the last 10 years.
Improving collaboration among employees is the goal of Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer's decision to ban telecommuting, but her edict means better information security as well, writes veteran CISO Patricia Titus.
The OWASP Top Ten list of security risks was created more than a decade ago to be the start of an industry standard that could bootstrap the legal system into encouraging more secure software. Here are the 2013 updates.
A former federal government CISO dismisses suggestions that IT security can be enhanced by tweaking the processes behind the implementation of the Federal Information Security Management Act. FISMA is badly flawed, he argues, and must be reformed by a new law.
The FTC puts the onus on application developers to protect their organization's sensitive data by mandating the use of "reasonable" data security practices. What does this mandate mean in practice?
With organizations racing to be the first-to-market with the latest, coolest app, they are forgetting something critically important: applying security principles in the development and deployment.
How do we lessen the risks posed by mobile devices and their apps, along with direct access provided to proprietary corporate data and networks? Here are five clear, actionable ways to mitigate your risks.
Using technology to prevent breaches is insufficient. Security leaders also must address the human factor, making sure staff members receive appropriate training on clear-cut policies - before it's too late.
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