Blog Posts Tagged with "Information Technology"
Communication is King in E-Discovery Matters
May 10, 2012 Added by:Bill Gerneglia
A common vocabulary is certainly emerging making dialog between counsel and technologists productive and effective. However, equally important is that lawyers engage their client’s technology team in dialog on e-discovery issues because when counsel fails, the fall out can be costly...
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The Patchwork Cloud: Making the Security Case
May 06, 2012 Added by:Rafal Los
When we think about cloud computing we can think of security as getting a bit of a gentle push, or shove in some cases. The way it is built and billed as services instead of individual components, and the increased emphasis on automation - security has a real chance of not being a roadblock...
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Unmasking Agility: Cloud Reality or Myth of Marketing Hype?
May 01, 2012 Added by:Rafal Los
Agility is the ability of the IT department to provide services that adapt to the changing needs of your organization faster than before, with on-premise servers, systems and staff. Increasing your business' agility means that IT has done something to contribute to a business...
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ENISA Seeks Experts for Permanent Stakeholders Group
April 26, 2012 Added by:Infosec Island Admin
The PSG will be composed of 30 leading experts in network and information security, and should represent the information and communications industry, consumer and user organizations, as well as academic and research institutions. Submit applications by April 30, 2012...
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On the Sustainability of Information Security
April 25, 2012 Added by:Rafal Los
The only way that information security can be a group of outliers is if we're considering ourselves within the entirety of the IT realm. While this would be great for my ego to think that myself and all my peers are just smarter than everyone else in IT, I know this to be false...
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Good Security Starts at Home
April 24, 2012 Added by:Ben Rothke
Not a day goes by without yet another spate of privacy and security issues. Threats to the security, privacy and personal information continue to increase in scope and complexity. To maintain competitive edge, vendors and service providers are scrambling to keep up...
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China, Cyber Warfare and Challenges for the Future
April 09, 2012 Added by:Pierluigi Paganini
China's growing presence in cyber space will result in an increase in cyber operations against the nation. Due to the imbalance between an aggressive cyber offense its weak cyber defense capabilities, it could be the origin of significant technological problems for China...
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NIST: Technical Guidance for Evaluating Electronic Health Records
April 03, 2012 Added by:Infosec Island Admin
“This guidance can be a useful tool for EHR developers to demonstrate that their systems don’t lead to use errors... It will provide a way for developers and evaluators to objectively assess how easy their EHR systems are to learn and operate, while maximizing efficiency...”
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Cyber Criminals Top Secret Service Most Wanted List
April 02, 2012 Added by:Headlines
The majority of fugitives on the Secret Service's top ten most wanted list can be described as "cyber criminals". While the objectives remain the same, the ubiquity of the digital systems that pervade every aspect of our culture presents a new set of challenges for law enforcement...
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Cloud Services Strategy: Security First - Growth Second
March 30, 2012 Added by:Richard Stiennon
Cisco, Juniper, Oracle, and Microsoft might have security initiatives and even good sales of security products. But security takes a back seat to functionality too often. Why are there no secure switches? Secure apps for Windows? Or secure databases?
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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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Public Key Infrastructure 1998 – 2012
March 26, 2012 Added by:Ben Rothke
PKI was and still is a powerful set of technologies. But it was a solution far ahead of its time. It was doomed by a lack of standards, interoperability issues, deployment complexities, and a level of complication that confounded even technologically competent end-users...
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Liars and Outliers: Enabling the Trust that Society Needs to Thrive
March 21, 2012 Added by:Ben Rothke
Liars and Outliers is an absolutely fascinating and groundbreaking book. In this election year where the candidates attempt to make sweeping simplistic promises to fix complex problems, Schneier simply answers that in our complex society, there are no simple answers...
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CIA and the Intelligence Components of Security
March 16, 2012 Added by:Pierluigi Paganini
We must approach with care the diffusion of technology, and correctly size up the potential threats. As there has been increased media attention on vulnerabilities within critical structures, the same approach must be followed to manage issues with commonly used devices...
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Roundtable: Opportunities for HR in Consumerization of IT
March 16, 2012 Added by:Kyle Lagunas
Providing access to all sorts of internal systems for both employees and managers can make for a more adaptable organization regardless of size. IT has struggled with this loss of gatekeeper control, but the sound fiscal results are changing the minds of the C-suite...
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US - UK Progress Towards a More Secure Cyberspace
March 15, 2012 Added by:Headlines
"We share an abiding commitment to keeping cyber-criminals from victimizing our citizens and weakening our trust in networked technology. Owing in part to our close partnership, it is harder than ever before for criminals to operate in cyberspace with impunity..."
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- Not Totally Sure What Just Happened...
- Has Anonymous Infiltrated the US Government?
- Big Opportunities in the Cloud
- Zeus Malware Targeting Facebook, Gmail and Yahoo Users
- 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