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• 2010 Defense Authorization Act Spending

  
  Information Security Resources — Authority: 473
  By Richard Stiennon, Chief Research Analyst, IT-Harvest On October 28th President Obama signed into law the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2010 (655 page PDF here ). After removing the Department of Energy allotment of $122 million it appears that the DoD is not gearing up in a major ...
  7 hours ago

• What Could Possibly Be Worse Than A Virus?

  
  Information Security Resources — Authority: 473
  By Robert Siciliano, Identity Theft Expert Anti-virus protection, critical security patches and a secure wireless connection have always been essential processes on my networks. My main concern has always been to protect my bank account by keeping the bad guy out. In my presentations, I’ve always ...
  1 day ago

• DLP is Short for Disturbing Lack of Process?

  
  Information Security Resources — Authority: 473
  By Danny Lieberman , Security Expert and Founder of Software Associates Ted Ritter has suggested that we rename DLP a Disturbing Lack of Process … Indeed DLP is not a well-defined term – since so many vendors (Kaspersky anti-virus, McAfee anti-virus, Symantec anti-virus, Trend Micro Provilla, CA ...
  2 days ago

• HITECH Act and Protecting Health Privacy

  
  Information Security Resources — Authority: 473
  By Doug Pollack , Chief Marketing Officer for ID Experts September 23, 2009 marked a major milestone for patient rights. That is when the new Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act took effect, requiring healthcare organizations to take more responsibility for protecting ...
  2 days ago

• Congressional Leak Spotlights P2P User Act

  
  Information Security Resources — Authority: 473
  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 ...
  3 days ago

• Microsoft Threat Assessment & Modeling

  
  Information Security Resources — Authority: 473
  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 ...
  3 days ago

• ISAlliance To Release Cyber Security Report

  
  Information Security Resources — Authority: 473
  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 ...
  3 days ago

• Report: Globalization of Malware Production

  
  Information Security Resources — Authority: 473
  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 ...
  4 days ago

• Evaluating Corporate Social Media Strategies

  
  Information Security Resources — Authority: 473
  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 ...
  4 days ago

• Detection, Prevention Best Measure for Risk

  
  MSI :: State of Security — Authority: 111
  For years now, security folks have been shouting to high heaven about the end of the world, cyber-terrorism, cyber-jihad and all of the other creative phrasings for increased levels of risk and attacks. SANS Institute (SysAdmin, Audit, Network, Security) at least asks for good things, too . It is always, as they ...
  4 days ago

• Ten Common Identity Theft Myths Dispelled

  
  Information Security Resources — Authority: 473
  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 ...
  5 days ago

• Four Pillars of Cyber Warfare: Intelligence

  
  Information Security Resources — Authority: 473
  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 ...
  5 days ago

• HIPAA and Video Surveillance of Surgery

  
  Information Security Resources — Authority: 473
  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 ...
  5 days ago

• Federal Statutes Aid Trade Secret Prosecution

  
  Information Security Resources — Authority: 473
  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 ...
  6 days ago

• Symantec CEO Optimistic About IT Spending

  
  Information Security Resources — Authority: 473
  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 ...
  6 days ago

• Iphone Dock Fires and Other Holiday Hazards

  
  Information Security Resources — Authority: 473
  Anthony M. Freed , Information-Security-Resources.com Managing Editor As we all approach the inevitable chaos of the holidays with shopping, company parties, and client gift lists - all on top of Q4 and 2009 reports and wrap ups - please take care care to protect yourself and your family from possible tragedy ...
  1 week ago

• Navy CIO Sees Future in Cloud Computing

  
  Information Security Resources — Authority: 473
  By Kevin L. Jackson , Vice President at Dataline During this week’s Federal Executive Forum taping, Navy CIO Robert Carey discussed his views on cloud computing. Stating that the NGEN and CANES (Navy Consolidated Afloat Networks and Enterprise Services) programs will both leverage cloud computing, he ...
  1 week ago

• Social Media Scams Plague Networks

  
  Information Security Resources — Authority: 473
  By Robert Siciliano, Identity Theft Expert For the past year, I’ve been screaming about the trouble with social media as it relates to identity theft, brand hijacking, privacy issues, and the opportunity social media creates for criminals to “friend” their potential victims in order to create a false ...
  1 week ago

• 3 Tips to Improve Your Organization’s Application Security

  
  MSI :: State of Security — Authority: 111
  Did you know that 65% of all reported attacks in 2007 were in the application layer, according to the FBI? Applications are the new playground for hackers and with more apps being developed daily, it makes for one very tempting area for the bad guys. Let’s look at three ways you can make a difference in blocking ...
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• Top Five Financial Sector Security Threats

  
  Information Security Resources — Authority: 473
  By Kevin M. Nixon , Information Security Resources Security Editor It is usual and customary during the 4th Quarter of any year, to think about the potential threats to our financial institutions and corporations, in an effort to get ahead of the curve and stave off additional failures. I have listed my Top 5 ...
  1 week ago

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