Expert analysis
Is it time to professionalize information security?
The issue of whether or not information security professionals should be licensed to practice has already been the topic of many a passionate debate. I think it is time to …
The CSO perspective on healthcare security and compliance
Randall Gamby is the CSO of the Medicaid Information Service Center of New York. In this interview he discusses healthcare security and compliance challenges and offers a …
Hacking charge stations for electric cars
The vision of electric cars call for charge stations to perform smart charging as part of a global smart grid. As a result, a charge station is a sophisticated computer that …
Human sensors: How encouraging user reporting strengthens security
Despite the pervasiveness of cyber-attacks threatening the enterprise security today, many organizations are still not taking advantage of their most widely deployed security …
Car and electronics shoppers at risk of escrow fraud
Cars, motorbikes and electronics top the list of items that scammers use most to swindle online shoppers in the growing underworld of escrow fraud, according to our recent …
Bringing networking and security together through network automation
The past ten years have seen a proliferation of increasingly complex network devices. Coupled with the recent rise in adoption of BYOD policies, mobile working practices, …
The CSO perspective on risk management
Candy Alexander is the CSO at Long Term Care Partners and volunteers as a member of the International Board of Directors for ISSA. In the past, she was invited to the White …
The importance of secure coding
Jim Manico is the VP of Security Architecture for WhiteHat Security. In this video recorded at Hack In The Box 2013 Amsterdam, Manico illustrates the importance of secure …
Do young people care about privacy?
Everywhere I go, I hear some variation of the claim that “young people today just don’t care about privacy.” This is something that people widely seem to …
Why we need security awareness training programs
Lately, some of the smartest people in infosec decided that security awareness trainings are a waste of time. Last out is Bruce Schneier, who decided to speak up against …
The age of information highway robbery
Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks are a widespread problem in the iGaming industry with hackers betting that they can make money from online gambling merchants by …
How financial institutions can overcome the cloud security barrier
In financial services, with the hundreds of complex regulations that apply to data, private cloud adoption is still more common than the public cloud to date. However, that is …