In recent years the
regulatory pressure on
organizations to secure,
document, and protect
their data and systems
has become increasingly
difficult to ignore.
There appears to be no
lack of government
regulations - both in the
U.S....
In businesses throughout
Europe and the United
States, the segregation
of IT security and system
operations has become
entrenched. Further
confounding the rift is
the pursuit of all things
'compliance' (e.g.,
BS7799, ISO 17799, BASE...
Regulations and audits
have become a way of life
for many security
officers, especially
those in the financial
and healthcare
industries. For example,
the Gramm-Leach-Bliley
Act (GLBA) requires banks
and financial
institutions to ...
I'm going to make two
predictions. One: Every
single American will have
his identity stolen in
the next five years. Two:
Some of the management
folks who read ISSJ will
go to jail in the next
five years for poor
security practices.
Over the past several
years, a number of
factors have conspired to
cause the security of
information to become a
critical business issue
that's core to the
operation of most
companies. These factors
include the recent
corporate fi...
IT security professionals
who are already managing
the bottom-line
expectations of their
boardrooms while guarding
their organizations
against myriad security
threats have a new
'C-level' challenge -
that of compliance. These
prof...
Even in the best of
times, security products
that aim to thwart worms
are playing catch-up.
Anti-virus and
anti-malware products are
populated with signatures
created for attack
specific signatures,
which are created and
distribut...
For a decade or more,
internal and external
regulations have impacted
corporate IT and shaped
the way companies are
required to do business.
Today you would scarcely
find a corporate CIO, IS
director, or IT architect
who would build...
As any IT manager will
tell you, ensuring the
reliable backup and
recovery of centralized
data is difficult enough.
Add the myriad challenges
associated with backing
up data from multiple
remote locations and the
complexity increase...
We (Patrick and Bruce)
are new to ISSJ. In a
future article, you'll
learn more about who we
are and why we are here.
In this issue, we thought
we would take a minute to
frame some of the
discussions that will go
on throughout the year.
Based on recent
incidents, C-level
executives are quickly
realizing that in today's
increasingly regulated
and distributed
environments, it's no
longer sufficient to rely
on status quo barriers of
protection for critical
corporate...
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IT groups need to be able
to consider adopting new
backup software for many
good reasons. New
software might have
features and benefits the
company needs. The curren
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This article is an
excerpt from Risk
Management for Computer
Security: Protecting
Your Network &
Information Assets.
Printed with permission
from Butterworth-Heinem