Amidst draft legislation and the fallout of large-scale breaches, now is both the best and worst of times for privacy, says Trevor Hughes of the IAPP. What are the best career opportunities for privacy pros?
Many enterprises are moving quickly to adopt "big data analytics" - specifically, the application of advances in analytics techniques to the rapidly-expanding pool of information that enterprises have at their disposal to enable better decision making.
As this trend of adoption continues, information security, risk...
In a speech revealing new limits on the way intelligence agencies collect telephone metadata, President Obama also announced a comprehensive review of how government and business are confronting the challenges inherent in big data.
Big data is a hot item on every banking institution's security agenda, says Gartner analyst Avivah Litan. Here she explains why mid-sized institutions are in the best position to implement new technology.
2014 may well be the "Year of Security," and IT security pros must prepare now for new job demands. ISACA's Robert Stroud offers five New Year's resolutions to help prepare for 2014's security trends.
Researchers have a new option for securely accessing more than 400 billion federal healthcare records via a virtual data center, says Niall Brennan of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
Security teams struggling to detect signs of threats hidden in mountains of data are attracted to big data analytics. But experts advise security professionals to take an incremental approach, starting out with smaller projects.
Too many organizations are spending far too much money on gathering big data that they cannot put to good use, such as for fraud prevention, says IDC analyst Jerry Silva, who stresses that investments must have strategic value.
When dealing with "Big Data," the volume and types of data about IT and the business are too great to process in an ad hoc manner. Moreover, it has become increasingly difficult to secure meaningful information from the data being collected.
Despite significant investment in information security, attackers appear...
Individuals see information differently today than they did just a few years ago because of big data and that, in turn, influences how people perceive privacy. ISACA's Jeff Spivey explains.
Organizations still have concerns about sharing too much data and threat intelligence to help thwart attacks. But EMC's Kathleen Moriarty says organizations' fears about intellectual property compromises are overblown.
Data from social media sites like Facebook, along with mobile device texts, will be analyzed by researchers in the aim of preventing suicide among U.S. Veterans. But how will privacy be protected?
How organizations view security is about to change, says Hugh Thompson of the security firm RSA. He explains why analytics will turn everything we thought we knew about security on its head.
RSA's Art Coviello finds today's cybersecurity strategies to be lacking. Global organizations must rely more on big data and public-private partnerships to defend themselves from advanced threats.
Combating identity-based fraud on the scale of millions of applicants is challenging, but federal and state agencies must do it regularly.
The key to success: A multi-phase approach is best - one that encompasses identity verification and big data for fraud mitigation.
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