Capital One confirmed it was hit by a second distributed denial of service attack. The hacktivist group Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Cyber Fighters warned about additional bank attacks this week.
Too many organizations misunderstand exactly what continuous monitoring is, says Centrify's Matt Hur, who offers insights on how to deploy continuous monitoring solutions for the best results.
Too many organizations misunderstand exactly what continuous monitoring is, says Centrify's Matt Hur, who offers insights on how to deploy continuous monitoring solutions for the best results.
Cyberthieves are exploiting weaknesses in the U.S. payments infrastructure as an easy-to-travel avenue for access to intellectual capital, says risk consultant Bill Wansley. What can be done to stop them?
Debate surrounding the Cybersecurity Act has focused on whether the government should regulate privately owned, critical IT systems. But the bill also would make significant changes on how government governs IT security, co-sponsor Sen. Tom Carper says. See how.
DHS will deploy sensors to agencies, generating the needed 60 billion to 80 billion vulnerability-and-configuration-setting checks every one-to-three days across the .gov network.
But an administration statement says other reasons, not IT security ones, are behind the veto threat, and praises the bill's sponsors for supporting the cybersecurity initiatives.
The Congressional Budget Office estimates that, when fully implemented, the new activities specified in legislation before Congress would add about 2 percent - roughly $200 million a year - to the annual cost of implementing FISMA.
The White House Office of Management and Budget, in its yearly Federal Information Security Management Act report to Congress, gives departments and agencies mixed grades in their efforts to secure federal IT for fiscal year 2011.
The National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) recently released new Federal Information System Management Act (FISMA) guidance in two publications. The aim of the new guidance is to help federal agencies develop a continuous monitoring program as part of a risk management framework. It is also supposed to...
NIST's Ron Ross will be quite busy at RSA Conference 2012, not only promoting revised guidance on security and privacy controls to be unveiled at the securing conclave, but also participating in a panel on one of his favorite topics: continuous monitoring.
President Obama, at a Virginia community college, outlines his budget that calls for strengthening government cybersecurity as the administration plans to reduce overall IT spending by more than a half-billion next year.
People, as much as anything else, are a critical aspect of information risk management, and businesses and government agencies must monitor employees - and educate them, as well - to thwart a potential threat from within.
The National Institute of Standards and Technology is seeking public comment on three draft interagency reports that provide guidance on the continuous monitoring of information systems for security vulnerabilities.
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