The Government Accountability Office is preparing a comprehensive analysis of the nation's cybersecurity strategy to determine its effectiveness in securing government IT and critical information infrastructures.
Two new reports re-confirm that healthcare organizations are experiencing expensive data breaches, many of which could have been prevented by taking specific steps.
South Carolina's Revenue Department went nearly a year without a chief information security officer before its tax system was hacked this summer. The agency's chief says the state couldn't find a qualified candidate for the job that pays $100,000 a year.
Given the magnitude of sensitive information on Social Security Administration computers, the inspector general says, any loss of confidentiality, integrity or availability of systems or data could have a significant impact on the nation's economy.
The goal is admirable: Eliminate all traces of online information about an individual if that's what he or she wants. But is the right to be forgotten an impossible dream?
More than half of U.S. Department of Energy desktop systems tested by the inspector general failed to apply security patches for known vulnerabilities, though the software fixes were issued months earlier.
Gov. Nikki Haley realizes the potential political consequences of a breach, which explains why she held three press conferences on three consecutive days to address her administration's response to a computer breach of the state's tax IT system.
The HHS Office of Inspector General plans to scrutinize whether any HITECH Act electronic health record incentive payments have been inappropriately issued and review HIPAA compliance enforcement efforts.
Suspending the HITECH Act's electronic health record incentive program, as suggested by four GOP congressmen, is a misguided idea that could hamper efforts to cut healthcare costs and jeopardize data security.
Do we have any reason to believe that any targeted banking institution will be better prepared next week to ward off a distributed denial of service attack like those that rocked three banks this week?
Managers and internal auditors don't necessarily see eye-to-eye when it comes to the results of an IT audit. PricewaterhouseCoopers' Carolyn Holcomb explains the challenges and solutions.
With so much hype and confusion around cybersecurity, falsely claiming an attack can have an impact on organizations trying to safeguard their digital assets.
Sen. Jay Rockefeller, in a letter to Fortune 500 company CEOs, queries them about their businesses' IT security practices and wonders if they agree with efforts by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce to block a vote on the Cybersecurity Act of 2012.
Two hefty fines issued as part of recent HIPAA settlements reveal that the Office for Civil Rights is getting tougher on enforcing compliance - especially when it comes to risk assessments.
If Congress banned the sale of computer wares from Chinese companies to prevent backdoor spying, components made in China would still make it to American shores through products sold by other vendors. Virtually all of them contain Chinese-made parts.
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