So, here's my story: Two weeks ago, the day before Halloween, one of my son's friends goes home from school with a fever, cough, nausea - all the early symptoms of the H1N1 virus, or swine flu.
Organizations and security controls have changed, so senior management and regulators now demanding more of internal auditors.
Beyond financial and control issues, internal auditors now are being asked to assess the effectiveness of an organization's enterprise risk management program, says Warren W. Stippich, Jr....
When Anne Marie Staley first became a business continuity/disaster recovery (BC/DR) professional, many organizations minimized the role.
Times clearly have changed. In this post-9/11 world, BC/DR functions have emerged to play critical roles in protecting organizations from natural, man-made and pandemic...
Government and business must think creatively to help safeguard America's digital assets, says Melissa Hathaway, the former White House acting senior director for cybersecurity who led President Obama's 60-day cybersecurity policy review.
Hathaway, an interview with GovInfoSecurity.com, cited the innovative...
As people increasingly turn to information assurance to start - or re-start - a career, the nation's community colleges play a greater role in job training.
Erich Spengler, professor at Moraine Valley Community College near Chicago, discusses:
The role of community colleges in information assurance...
Know what scares security expert John Pescatore the most? The image of a remote employee sitting a home office or public setting, plugging into an unsecured network, accessing critical data via a personal laptop or PDA.
Organizations have never had so many security risks in so many remote locations, says Pescatore,...
One of the recurring topics at last week's BAI Retail Delivery Conference & Expo -- in almost all recent conversations about the banking industry, in fact - was social media.
Tough times require "softer" leaders.
This is the perspective of careers coach Heidi Kraft, who says that today's senior leaders need to focus more on emotional intelligence and other "soft" qualities to be able to better recruit and retain quality employees.
In an exclusive interview, Kraft discusses:
Which...
For students seeking employment, the federal government seeks interns and entry-level candidates within IT and cybersecurity. Job positions including program management support, technical support engineers, policy review professionals, network security support engineers and IT specialists are open for immediate hire...
Interview with Kevin Sanchez-Cherry, IT Security Specialist
What does it take for an information security professional to make it into the United States Secret Service?
We asked Kevin Sanchez-Cherry, IT Security Specialist within the agency's Information Security Operations. In this exclusive interview,...
The public-private consortium that published last February the Consensus Audit Guidelines, or CAG, will issue a new report that will link specific automated tools with its critical security controls.
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