What can organizations do to improve security after a network attack? Post-breach investigations help security leaders trace steps and strengthen weak points, says investigator Erin Nealy Cox.
The call for an overarching federal cybersecurity strategy comes in the wake of findings from U.S.-CERT that federal agencies reported a nearly eight-fold increase in cyber-incidents over seven years.
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.
Revision 3 of the National Institute of Standards and Technology's Interagency Report 7511 defines the requirements and associated test procedures necessary for products to achieve one or more Security Content Automation Protocol validations.
The Government Accountability Office is preparing a comprehensive analysis of the nation's cybersecurity strategy to determine its effectiveness in securing government IT and critical information infrastructures.
South Carolina's Revenue Department went nearly a year without a chief information security officer before its tax system was hacked this summer. The agency's chief says the state couldn't find a qualified candidate for the job that pays $100,000 a year.
Given the magnitude of sensitive information on Social Security Administration computers, the inspector general says, any loss of confidentiality, integrity or availability of systems or data could have a significant impact on the nation's economy.
The goal is admirable: Eliminate all traces of online information about an individual if that's what he or she wants. But is the right to be forgotten an impossible dream?
Gov. Nikki Haley realizes the potential political consequences of a breach, which explains why she held three press conferences on three consecutive days to address her administration's response to a computer breach of the state's tax IT system.
A breach at a Texas credit union shows how fraudsters target financial institution employees to gain access to sensitive information. Why are institutions proving to be soft spots for compromise?
As banking institutions await a new wave of DDoS attacks, one security vendor says it foresaw one rare -but effective - element of these attacks as far back as 2006. What can banks expect to see next?
Do we have any reason to believe that any targeted banking institution will be better prepared next week to ward off a distributed denial of service attack like those that rocked three banks this week?
Managers and internal auditors don't necessarily see eye-to-eye when it comes to the results of an IT audit. PricewaterhouseCoopers' Carolyn Holcomb explains the challenges and solutions.
With so much hype and confusion around cybersecurity, falsely claiming an attack can have an impact on organizations trying to safeguard their digital assets.
Sen. Jay Rockefeller, in a letter to Fortune 500 company CEOs, queries them about their businesses' IT security practices and wonders if they agree with efforts by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce to block a vote on the Cybersecurity Act of 2012.
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