This week's top news and views: DHS, DoD to Jointly Tackle Cybersecurity; IT Security Evolution to Mimic Immune system; IT Joblessness at 5.1%; States Intimidated by Consensus Audit Guidelines.
Efforts by government and business to educate young people about careers in IT security will pay off, says former New York State CISO and Multi-State ISAC Chair William Pelgrin.
"Citizens don't have the authority to say no. Given that backdrop, I think states have a greater responsibility to protect those types of information," Nevada CISO Chris Ipsen says.
"Signatures are not going to be the way of the future because we don't have time to put a name or a pattern on enemy behaviors and pass it out and block it," says Phyllis Schneck, McAfee chief technology officer/public sector.
This week's top news and views: White House slow to executive cybersecurity policy and cybersecurity as a catalyst for economic growth. And don't miss our audio week-in-review podcast by Executive Editor Eric Chabrow
When it comes to business continuity and disaster recovery planning, it isn't the cause of the disaster that's the concern - it's the potentially devastating effects.
"Having milestones will help move you further down the path toward completion, but clearly some of these are complex areas," says David Powner, director of information management issues for the Government Accountability Office.
Kevin Johnson, SANS instructor and security expert, on what you need to know about Stuxnet, Twitter worms and other new threats to organizations and privacy.
This week's top news and views: Industry, not military, defender of nation's critical infrastructure; don't ask, don't tell filibuster has impact on cybersecurity reform; White House deemed confused, disconnected on infosec.
Emerging payments technologies, such as tokenization, are already being deployed in the marketplace, but standardization, as it relates to the security of some of these emerging solutions, is lacking.
"Though current cyber coordinator Howard Schmidt has begun well, he should become a cyber leader with more directive authority," says Paul Rosenzweig, a onetime deputy assistant secretary for policy at the Department of Homeland Security.
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