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Cybersecurity concerns becoming a boardroom issue

The increasing frequency, sophistication, and business impact of cyber-attacks have pushed cybersecurity planning and protection from an operational concern of IT departments …

Security awareness training: Why it matters

Dr. Peter Lokhorst is Managing Director of InfoSecure BV, which is currently in seven countries and provides awareness training programs to international clients including …

Despite costs, organizations overlook new threats

A new generation of unknown security threats stemming from megatrends and technologies like BYOD, mobility, cloud computing, and Internet usage, as well as internal actions …

Most security pros concerned about missing threats between vulnerability scans

Continuous monitoring, whose roots lie with the U.S. government, addresses many of the challenges faced by traditional vulnerability management solutions and offers CISOs and …

Most organizations are unable to resolve a cyber attack

The lack of incident detection and investigation puts companies and their CISOs’ jobs at significant risk, according to a new Ponemon Institute study. In fact, when a …

Best practices to help prevent online data breaches

The Online Trust Alliance (OTA) recommended a series of best practices to help prevent online data breaches and other exploits. Leveraging preliminary year-end data from the …

Key security program and budget data for CISOs

Benchmarking against similar organizations provides IT leaders with powerful tools to analyze departmental performance and gain executive management support. Since no …

What are the building blocks of security culture?

In order to understand how to create security culture, it is important to know what it is and how we define it, so that we can look beyond the basics. Taking into …

Federal agency cloud adoption increases 400%

Tripwire announced the results of a survey on cloud security technology trends in the federal government. The survey evaluated the attitudes of more than 100 federal …

CIOs must lead the move to transform government services

Faced with relentless pressure to reduce costs and improve the performance of government agencies, CIOs must choose between maintaining current operations or transforming …

How competitive is your cybersecurity team?

SecureWorld Insight, a partnership with Ponemon Institute and SecureWorld Expo, identified compensation for eight categories of information security staff – from CISOs …

What CIOs can expect in 2014

While the 3rd platform of mobile, social, big data, and cloud services is just beginning to mature, it will require an entirely different set of IT skills and roles — many of …

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