Budgets
Procrastination in Cybersecurity Legislation
April 30, 2012 Added by:Michelle Valdez
Congress is procrastinating with regards to cybersecurity legislation. The debates will continue about regulation and authorities and privacy rights but in the end, we all need to come together and find the best way to share threat data so that we can protect critical networks...
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The Infosec Investment Equation - Can You Solve It?
April 10, 2012 Added by:Neira Jones
Redundant measures always expose themselves very rapidly: they either don’t help you run your shop, or nobody around you is interested in them. So if you still have some of these, your job is to scrap them because it will save some time and resources to apply elsewhere...
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CIOs See Growth in IT Budgets and Staff for 2012
March 28, 2012 Added by:Bill Gerneglia
After several years of stagnant or negative growth, most companies are now projecting a 3-4 percent increase in IT budgets and staffing for this year, which can be seen as acknowledgement that IT is critical if companies are to execute on their aggressive growth plans...
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Location, Location, Location: It Works in Risk Management
March 21, 2012 Added by:Edwin Covert
With the increase in cybercrime costs, organizations need to be able to ensure they are maximizing their return on risk management investment. An effective way of doing this is making sure the information security or risk management team is properly aligned within their organization...
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Penny Wise, Pound Foolish: Avoiding Security Spend Pitfalls
February 07, 2012 Added by:Fergal Glynn
Knowing how much money you’re going to spend upfront is a challenge until you have the application inventory, until you know what your risk tolerances are, and until you have a fair idea of what the problems are. You’ll have to start slow and realize the number may grow...
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Spending Your 2012 IT Security Budget - Beware of Cheap
January 29, 2012 Added by:Rafal Los
If you can't be good, be cheap - the battle cry of the second-rate vendor. After spending 4 years as part of a world-class sales organization, I can tell you that with no uncertainty that I've seen some of my competitors do some absolutely insane things to compete...
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Government Can Save Millions Reforming Security Policy
December 30, 2011 Added by:Headlines
“The members all share the same belief that these inefficiencies can be greatly reduced. By taking action now we can conserve our resources and ensure our capacity for critical national security activities in the future...”
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Two Million Euro for Dutch Cyber Operations in 2012
September 28, 2011 Added by:Don Eijndhoven
A small sum, but considerable in the face of ongoing budget cuts at the Dutch Ministry of Defense. One has to wonder though, with all that has been going on the last few years, what will be done with a mere € 2 million for an entire year. This would pay for roughly 10 people and some hardware...
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Compensation Increases for CIOs and IT Workers in 2011
August 21, 2011 Added by:Bill Gerneglia
According to the first-half 2011 IT salary survey from Janco Associates, IT compensation has increased slightly. While overall employment remains lackluster by most organizations across all industries, there is comfort in the fact that more tech jobs are being added than are being cut...
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The (Almost) Budget-less CISO: Winning, Not Surviving
July 12, 2011 Added by:Rafal Los
As an enterprise-level security leader, your job is to secure the company. How does a huge budget help you achieve that? In reality, it doesn't. A huge budget is the signal that you've not understood your business well enough to apply the right controls in the right places...
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Calculating the Return on Security Investment (ROSI)
June 21, 2011 Added by:Dejan Kosutic
Traditionally, "making sense" for management means that the revenues that will result from the investment will be larger than the total cost of investment. So what's the problem? The problem is, even if you can calculate the total cost, there are no revenues to be made from security...
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Hey CISO, Your Budget is Killing You...
June 14, 2011 Added by:Rafal Los
You've wrestled with justifying initiatives, programs, and security-driven innovation you want to implement to keep the company safe and lower the risk profile, but what you may not know is that the budget you've been working so hard to grow may actually be secretly killing you...
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Return on Security Investment (ROSI) Calculator Launched
June 02, 2011 Added by:Dejan Kosutic
This is the most detailed ROSI Calculator that can be found on the Internet, and it aims to calculate as precisely as possible whether the potential decrease of security incidents (i.e. the risk mitigation) will outweigh the investment in security measures. It's completely free...
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Desktop Virtualization is Becoming Mainstream
March 19, 2011 Added by:Rahul Neel Mani
Research shows that more than $250 billion worth of energy per year is spent on powering computers around the world. As organizations search for practical and immediate ways to save money and reduce the IT impact on global climate change, they are increasingly turning to virtual PCs...
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Compromises, Budgets and Nonsense
March 18, 2011 Added by:Rafal Los
There is no amount you can spend right now that can make anything better. Software Security Assurance programs, even bare-bones application security testing-only efforts take months to surgically insert into an organization. Generally, money isn't the only part of the equation that's missing...
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IT Second Quarter Hiring Forecast Still Good
March 14, 2011 Added by:Bill Gerneglia
Network administration specialists were expected to be in most demand. These were cited at possible tough hires by 65 percent of CIOs. Windows Server administrators were next, at 60 percent, followed by desktop support at 57 percent and database management at 52 percent...
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- Follow Up to the Out of Band Authentication Post
- Skype Malware Campaign Spreading Poison Ivy Trojan
- I Hope Edo is Worth the Privacy Risk
- Dutch MoD Innovation Competition 2012: CYBER Operations 2.0
- NIST Workshop: The Technical Aspects of Botnets
- Security Automation by Hand - Batch/Bash/FOR
- Who Are You Preaching to Anyway?
- Some Observations on Klout Scores
- Where Will the Buck Stop in Cloud Security?
- How Does Your Bank Protect Your Data?