They start with basic questions: Are you a public company? Have you been in any actual or attempted merger, acquisition or divestment within the past two years? How many employees? What percentage of your revenue is international? From there they hone in on the specific controls and safeguards you have in place to secure your data and IT infrastructure. Here are seven areas that the insurance carriers are looking at…
Shipping scams are a common tactic criminals use in which they employ mules to receive goods bought with stolen credit card numbers, who then ship to people who buy them in online auctions. The mules in this process are essentially facilitating selling hot goods and money laundering.
Clearly communicate that, in fact, there are secrets. Once employees understand that they have a responsibility to protect the enterprise, the chasm between the security professional and the rest of the staff not only shrinks, it disappears. Far too often, security policies arrive as a reaction, as opposed to a proactive management of risk. Through this process, the enterprise will acknowledge security as forethought, not an afterthought.
“First, the President is correct in his appreciation of the need to view cyber security as not just a technical and security issue, but as an economic one as well. In the 21st century - the digital century - economics and security are opposite sides of the same coin. You cannot affect one without impacting the other.” ~ Congressional Testimony
In its recently released Global CIO Study, IBM found that 83% of respondents identified business intelligence and analytics as the best way to help enhance their organizations’ competitiveness. At the company’s Information on Demand conference in Las Vegas, IBM outlined a series of new products and services. It includes tools to analyze the increasing volumes of unstructured data found on Web sites, on social networking sites and in digital files.
Larry Clinton, president of the Internet Security Alliance (ISA), will testify tomorrow at a U.S. Senate Judiciary Terrorism and Homeland Security Subcommittee hearing titled, Cybersecurity: Preventing Terrorist Attacks and Protecting Privacy in Cyberspace.
On October 28th President Obama signed into law the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2010. OK, so more people are needed. Now, let’s talk money. How much money is provided in the 2010 Defense Authorization Act for Cyber Defense? A lot.
Once a predator uses your Internet connection to go to into the bowels of the web, your Internet Protocol address, which is connected to your ISP billing address, is now considered one that is owned by a criminal. If law enforcement happens to be chatting with that person, who’s using your Internet connection to trade lurid porn, then someone may eventually knock on your door at 3 AM with a battering ram. And in freakish and relatively new twist, hackers can use a virus to crack your network and gain remote control access, and then store illicit porn on your hard drive.
The question is not lack of process but whether or not security is being used to help enforce business process in the relevant areas of product safety, customer service, employee workplace security and information protection in business-to-business relationships.
The ISA will release a new cybersecurity report, which proposes frameworks for taking key issues in the Obama Administration’s “Cyberspace Policy Review” document to the next level, in an effort to achieve tangible progress. The report will include frameworks for creating a new, practical model for information sharing; addressing the international nature of cybersecurity issues; developing a market for adopting good security standards and practices; building a highly educated digital workforce; and managing the global IT supply chain.
The notion that social media sites are little more than a trendy consumer oriented technology is misguided. Most business activities have legal ramifications and social media is no exception., and legal issues can arise when an organization does not adequately address social media with company policy.
Identity theft is preventable. As with any other crime, the risk will always be there. But there are many things people can do to minimize that risk, both online and offline. The National Foundation for Credit Counselors, which sponsors Protect Your Identity Week, has compiled a number of identity theft myths.
There are four pillars to the cyber war realm: intelligence, technology, logistics, and command. By understanding these factors IT security practitioners can gauge the threat to their own organization from cyber war and perhaps take steps to prepare for either direct attacks or the fallout from an outbreak of cyber hostilities between nations.
The short answer for persons leaving a company is to be very careful and to have a very clear understanding with the employer about what can and cannot be taken. The increasing involvement of government authorities in enforcing remedies involving trade secrets certainly signals a new level of risk for those who may be considering taking or copying trade secrets.
Symantec isn’t the only company to forecast improved enterprise IT spending based on quarterly results in the past few weeks; executives at EMC, IBM, and Intel all spoke positively about IT budgets rebounding in the coming months.
With the threat of aftershocks in the US Stock market, continued bank closings and takeovers by the FDIC, serious consideration needs to be given to changing the current reporting, auditing and oversight regulations, and the public needs to pressure elected officials into action before our entire country is taken off financial life support.
This is the first cogent look at the efficacy of waging strategic cyber war and I hope will serve to slow the rhetoric coming from the US Defense community about acquiring cyber offensive capability: “Can cyberattacks disarm cyberattackers? In a world of cheap computing, ubiquitous networking, and hackers who could be anywhere, the answer is no.”
Forget about vampires, ghouls and zombies. You were much more likely to receive a fright this year from something lurking in your e-mail. There were the usual crop of Trojan horses and phishing expeditions, and as the surprising list points out, some of the scares go all the way up to White House and the FBI.
ISA/AIA webinar - Testing In A Real Environment Leads to Faster Cyber Security Innovation; Electronic Self-Help - White Hats, Black Markets, and Grey Laws; Software Assurance Forum; ICSJWG 2009 Fall Conference; ISA/AIA Webinar - Supply Chain Issues in Cyber Security…
I recently saw an article entitled Compliance is the New Security Standard. The basic thesis of the blog post was that since companies have to spend money on compliance, they might as well spend the money once and rename the effort “security”. This is an interesting notion – although perhaps “placebo security” might be a cheaper approach. Compliance is not equivalent to security for several fundamental reasons…
