Content by Tom Field

"One of the Most Generous Scholarships I've Ever Seen" - Victor Piotrowski of the NSF on the Scholarship for Service Program

Tom Field  •  May 5, 2009

It's a simple proposition for successful applicants to the Scholarship for Service (SFS) Program: Get your information security education paid for, and then come work for the U.S. government. "It's one of the most generous scholarships I've ever seen," says Victor Piotrowski, Lead Program Director of SFS for the...

What You Don't Know About the World's Worst Breaches - Dr. Peter Tippett on the 2009 Data Breach Investigations Report

Tom Field  •  April 29, 2009

Verizon Business investigated 90 major data breaches in 2008, including 285 million compromised records. Nearly ¾ of those breaches were external hacks, and 99.9 percent of the records were compromised via servers and applications. These are among the findings of Verizon's new 2009 Data Breach Investigations...

Swine Flu: "This Could be Our Next Pandemic" - Regina Phelps, Emergency Management Expert

Tom Field  •  April 27, 2009

As the swine flu outbreak triggers new fears of a global pandemic, security organizations must dust off and review their emergency management plans. For insight on how to prepare for swine flu, pandemic expert Regina Phelps offers expert insight on: What you need to know about swine flu; How your organization...

Swine Flu Raises Security Concerns

Tom Field  •  April 26, 2009

Regina Phelps, in a podcast interview, offers advice on how your organization should respond to a potential swine flu pandemic as well as where to watch for updates over the next few days.

FISMA Reform Bill Due Tuesday

Tom Field  •  April 24, 2009

Forthcoming reforms to the Federal Information Security Management Act of 2002 are said to improve federal coordination of IT security efforts and provide for greater situational awareness of security threats.

Hathaway Speech Lacks Substance

Tom Field  •  April 23, 2009

She did a Geithner. In making her first public appearance since delivering her long-awaited cybersecurity review to President Obama last week, Melissa Hathaway took to the stage at the RSA Conference in San Francisco on Wednesday. And she did exactly what Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner was criticized for when...

RSA Day Two: It's About the Government, Stupid!

Tom Field  •  April 22, 2009

Observations from day one of the RSA Conference. Edgar Allan Poe might be the conference theme, but the topic everybody is talking about? Government. From financial regulatory reform and compliance to the Obama Administration on cybersecurity, attendees and sponsors alike all are talking about the convergence of...

Getting the Cybersecurity Organization Right

Tom Field  •  April 22, 2009

On the eve of Melissa Hathaway's long-awaited public comments on her just-completed overview of federal government cybersecurity programs, a panel of experts agreed on a key point: The nation's cybersecurity has to be headquartered in the White House. "We've got to get it right organizationally," said Sameer...

RSA Day One: It's All About Poe

Tom Field  •  April 21, 2009

And so it begins ... As this morning dawns on San Francisco, so begins the 2009 edition of the RSA Conference. As anyone in information security can tell you, this is the Mardi Gras, the Super Bowl, the event in the industry. It's where security professionals from all walks of the public and private sectors come...

If We Are Not a Team, We Lose

Tom Field  •  April 21, 2009

For those who say the National Security Agency wants to take charge of the nation's cybersecurity, the agency's director has a message: You're wrong, says Lt. Gen. Keith Alexander in his RSA Conference keynote address.

The Future of Information Security: Interview with John Rossi, National Defense University

Tom Field  •  April 17, 2009

To this point, information security professionals have been generalists. Going forward, they'll have to be specialists. At least this is the opinion of John Rossi, professor of systems management/information assurance. In an exclusive interview on the future of the information security profession, Rossi...

Privacy Issues and Education: Peter Kosmala, International Association of Privacy Professionals

Tom Field  •  April 14, 2009

From the Heartland data breach to the new Massachusetts data protection law, privacy is the hot topic in business and government. In an exclusive interview, Peter Kosmala, assistant director of the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP), discusses: The top privacy topics in business and...

'What Are You Doing to Protect My Information?' - Sidney Pearl of Unisys on Consumer Security Concerns

Tom Field  •  April 14, 2009

"Knowledge is the currency of the future," says Sidney Pearl, Global Director of Enterprise Security Solution management for the Unisys Global Financial Services business. And according to the latest Unisys Security Index, Americans are getting much smarter - and more demanding - about the basic information...

"One of the Most Generous Scholarships I've Ever Seen" - Victor Piotrowski of the NSF on the Scholarship for Service Program.

Tom Field  •  April 3, 2009

It's a simple proposition for successful applicants to the Scholarship for Service (SFS) Program: Get your information security education paid for, and then come work for the U.S. government. "It's one of the most generous scholarships I've ever seen," says Victor Piotrowski, Lead Program Director of SFS for the...

'What Are You Doing to Protect My Information?' - Sidney Pearl of Unisys on Consumer Security Concerns

Tom Field  •  April 3, 2009

"Knowledge is the currency of the future," says Sidney Pearl, Global Director of Enterprise Security Solution management for the Unisys Global Financial Services business. And according to the latest Unisys Security Index, Americans are getting much smarter - and more demanding - about the basic information...