The Swine Flu, if unchecked, could prove to be the pandemic that industry experts have warned about, and so financial regulators and institutions are preparing for the worst.
This new outbreak, which began in Mexico and has now spread to the US, Canada, several South American countries and parts of Europe and Asia,...
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...
Sen. Susan Collins says government should consider leaving cybersecurity coordination among federal agencies within the Department of Homeland Security.
IT security will be center stage in Congress on Tuesday as two Senate panels hold hearings, including one chaired by Sen. Joseph Lieberman, I-Conn. (pictured), and as legislation to update FISMA is expected to be introduced.
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...
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.
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.
The first federal CTO thinks the new federal CTO also could serve as the federal cybersecurity czar.
Norm Lorentz served as the federal chief technology officer in 2002 and 2003, working within the White House Office of Management and Budget. In that job, Lorentz focused on developing the federal IT enterprise...
The White House cybersecurity advisor's speech was more warmly greeted 2,800 miles away inside the Beltway than the cool reception it got Wednesday before the RSA Conference at San Francisco's Moscone Center.
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...
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...
A military command to coordinate the defense of military computer networks and enhance American offensive ability in a cyber war is being planned by the Obama administration, according to a published report.
The plan would remake how the military would protect Pentagon networks from foreign adversaries and others...
Melissa Hathaway, in her remarks on the 60-day study she conducted for President Obama, didn't explain how U.S. cybersecurity should be governed, even if it's based in the White House.
Congratulations to Ron Ross, senior computer scientist and information security researcher at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, for being named to the Information Systems Security Association's Hall of Fame for his leadership in the development of influential information security documents. This...
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