It's been compared to the 'perfect storm,' but Hurricane Sandy is unlike any storm we've seen, says Alan Berman of DRI. He believes organizations have planned well for recovery.
Hurricane Sandy threatened buildings, staff and data alike. But it also challenged business continuity pros to be leaders. Disaster recovery expert Regina Phelps discusses seven critical skills.
Malicious attacks utilizing trusted URLs or websites continue to pose greater risks for organizations, says IBM's Rick Miller, who details the attacks and strategies to mitigate them.
CISOs increasingly are asked to manage both information security and risk. What new skills and tools do they need to juggle the dual role? David Sherry, CISO of Brown University, shares his views.
Imagine sitting in a bar, as a stranger snaps a photo of you, and then uses that image to find out who you are using facial recognition technology. It's the type of practice that the staff of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission wants to discourage.
Top executives must be transparent with their stakeholders when their IT systems get attacked. Otherwise, their enterprises' reputations could be more severely damaged, says IBM Fellow Luba Cherbakov.
The failure to take appropriate steps to secure their IT assets leaves small and midsize enterprises vulnerable to attacks from cybercriminals seeking to pick low-hanging fruit.
Healthcare security professionals often fail to conduct comprehensive, timely risk assessments, as required by regulators. But security expert Kate Borten says they can leverage new guidance to help get the job done.
"A cyberattack perpetrated by nation states or violent extremists' groups could be as destructive as the terrorist attack on 9/11," U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta says. "Such a destructive cyber-terrorist attack could virtually paralyze the nation."
Infosec pros take note: As the overall number of "true exploits" have decreased, targeted ones - especially those initiated by criminals or nation states - are becoming harder to detect, say IBM's Rick Miller.
The gut feeling many people have about their physical security hasn't quite developed in the digital world, presenting a challenge for homeland security officials, says State of Delaware Homeland Security Adviser Kurt Reuther.
The Cloud Security Alliance has formed a big data working group to address privacy and security challenges among organizations. What are those challenges and how does the group aim to tackle them?
When managers commit financial fraud, their schemes tend to cost organizations twice as much as when non-managers instigate these crimes. That's one key finding of a new insider fraud study.
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.
NIST's Ron Ross, one of the world's top information risk thought leaders, says new guidance he co-wrote doesn't dictate how organizations must approach risk assessment, but gives enterprises options on how to conduct risk appraisals.
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