Entries from Realtime Community | Messaging and Web Security tagged with 'compliance'
BusinessWeek asks what's Holding back Google Apps?. The answer is the same thing that always kills deals to move corporate data to the cloud: control....
Posted by Dan Sullivan on May 14, 2009 12:22 PM
An early Christmas gift for companies doing business in Massachusetts: the state has postponed until May 1, 2009 the implementation of a new data protection regulation....
Posted by Dan Sullivan on December 22, 2008 1:20 AM
Everyone with an interest in the state of IT security should read Lenny Zeltser's post at SANS entitled "Are We Doomed", which as the name implies, list reasons we'll continue to be plagued by difficult security challenges but it also...
Posted by Dan Sullivan on November 19, 2008 7:58 AM
Checking your personal email from a corporate system is one thing, using a personal account to conduct business is another. The former is one of those balancing risk and functionality questions. We all have busy lives and many of us...
Posted by Dan Sullivan on September 19, 2008 8:52 AM
LPL Financial Corporation has agreed to pay a $275,000 penalty to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for failing to adopt policies and procedures to safeguard their customers' personal information, leaving at least 10,000 customers vulnerable to identity theft following...
Posted by Dan Sullivan on September 12, 2008 10:19 AM
We've just posted a new article on centralized policy management. Here is an excerpt:...
Posted by Dan Sullivan on September 9, 2008 12:44 PM
We've posted a new article on policy compliance and remediation. Here's an excerpt:...
Posted by Dan Sullivan on August 28, 2008 8:37 AM
Governance, compliance and risk management (GCR) is a broad, demanding and sometimes intimidating topic but there are strategies for getting GCR under control. This podcast describes a seven step process for getting a GCR program started with an emphasis on...
Posted by Dan Sullivan on August 6, 2008 9:34 AM
Full disk encryption can be a significant part of a data loss prevention program but it comes with management challenges. This podcast discusses some of the advantages and management issues faced when deploying and maintaining full disk encryption for mobile...
Posted by Dan Sullivan on July 29, 2008 6:00 PM
There are many advantages of cloud computing, like the promise of resources on demand and lower costs, but improved security isn't one of them....
Posted by Dan Sullivan on July 15, 2008 6:17 AM
Network World published an interview with an Ex-Bear Stearns CISO on compliance which raises some pressing questions but I think falls short on the right answer....
Posted by Dan Sullivan on July 14, 2008 1:45 PM
Details of the Hannaford Bros. supermarket breach are still limited but one thing has been clear from the beginning and that is that the retailer claimed it was PCI compliant. This immediately raises a number of questions that can't be...
Posted by Dan Sullivan on March 24, 2008 10:17 AM
The grocery chain Hannaford Bros. Co. was hit by a sizable data breach from December 2007 to March 2008. Mastercard and Visa have notified member banks about the breach which involved the theft of card numbers and expiration dates during...
Posted by Dan Sullivan on March 18, 2008 8:49 AM
Anton Chuvakin points out in his ComputerWorld opinion piece Security policy in the age of compliance that even security professional ignore security policies. He cites a Ponemon Institute study that found: more than half of the 890 respondents said that...
Posted by Dan Sullivan on January 28, 2008 8:46 AM
We've just added an article on database auditing to the Messaging and Web Security Essential Series. Here is an excerpt: Database security is gaining more attention and justifiably so. Concerns about compliance, privacy protection and data loss will naturally lead...
Posted by Dan Sullivan on December 7, 2007 12:25 PM
An article on mobile device encryption has just been added to the Essential Series: Messaging and Web Security Volume II. Here's an excerpt: There is no shortage of headlines about lost or stolen laptops containing confidential data. There is also...
Posted by Dan Sullivan on November 30, 2007 10:04 AM
If you are considering Google Apps, Zoho, ThinkFree or other online applications to replace or complement Microsoft Office, here are 12 things to consider before making the move. This podcasts groups the 12 topics into 3 broad categories: functionality, technical...
Posted by Dan Sullivan on November 13, 2007 2:56 PM
Just last week, I wrote on the Canadian governments move to improve privacy protections. This week the news is about Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoing a data protection bill in California. The bill tried to out do PCI DSS, which some retailers...
Posted by Dan Sullivan on October 15, 2007 9:57 AM
Associated Press reports Google will make an announcement later today about an upgrade to their corporate email service. The tools acquired in the Postini acquisition will likely be the center of attention. Founded in 1999, Postini provides tools that insulate...
Posted by Dan Sullivan on October 3, 2007 7:45 AM
Microsoft is making more announcements about its strategy to implement some kind of Web-based Office solution. We've been waiting for details on how Redmond would respond to Google Apps and the demise of pay-for-local-use word processing/spreadsheet/presentation software. The details are...
Posted by Dan Sullivan on October 1, 2007 8:35 AM
In a keynote address to the InformationWeek 500 conference, McAfee CEO David DeWalt summarized the state of cybercrime and the security market, including something of a wake up call: DeWalt said "it's amazing how low the awareness is of cyber-security...
Posted by Dan Sullivan on September 19, 2007 7:37 AM
Data loss prevention (DLP) tools can mitigate the risk of accidental and deliberate disclosure of private and confidential data. Compliance and intellectual property protection are two drivers behind the increasing importance of DLP. This podcast describes the current state of...
Posted by Dan Sullivan on August 27, 2007 12:34 PM
TJX's second quarter FY08 earnings estimates include an high level description of the cost of the data breach reported earlier this year. The company paid out $11 million during the quarter and set aside another $107 million to cover future...
Posted by Dan Sullivan on August 15, 2007 7:33 AM
As a follow up to an earlier post on data breaches and intellectual property, see Data breaches, compliance drive intellectual property protection The study found that more than one-third of organizations not using data loss prevention technology had information stolen...
Posted by Dan Sullivan on July 11, 2007 11:12 AM
Google understands that software as a service requires security as a service so they’ve put $625 million on the table to buy Postini. Enterprises aren’t going to move to Google Apps or any other software service unless they can trust...
Posted by Dan Sullivan on July 9, 2007 9:31 AM
Eweek covers Gartner analyst Neil MacDonald's take on Vista's BitLocker encryption. Overall the assessment is good but there are a few drawbacks. For starters, you have to subscribe to Microsoft's Security Assurance program to get BitLocker to get it "for...
Posted by Dan Sullivan on June 7, 2007 7:55 AM
Effective security management requires more than deploying firewalls and anti-virus software. Getting started with security information management is challenging but this podcast provides an overview of how to proceed. Starting with planning and moving through policy development to addressing key...
Posted by Dan Sullivan on May 1, 2007 4:55 PM
The steady stream of security breaches is taking its toll on consumer confidence. Andrea Klein at E-Commerce Times points out: [T]he Ponemon Institute, a research and education organization focusing on information and privacy practices, revealed in its "2006 Privacy Trust...
Posted by Dan Sullivan on February 13, 2007 8:54 AM
Regulations made clear the need to protect the privacy and integrity of information. One aspect of meeting those requirements is securing Web applications that collect, manage and analyze that information. This podcast examines some common security problems in Web applications...
Posted by Dan Sullivan on December 26, 2006 5:03 PM
The Confernce Board, a leading business research group, produced a report for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security on executive attitudes about information security. Some of the results, reported by TechWeb are discouraging. A fundamental problem is that many executives...
Posted by Dan Sullivan on November 13, 2006 8:23 AM
Understanding and addressing risk is fundamental to compliance. Risk management requires identifying risks, assessing the potential impact of those risks, and reducing those risks. This podcasts provides an overview of the risk analysis process with an emphasis on managing IT...
Posted by Dan Sullivan on November 10, 2006 11:21 PM
Compliance with Sarbox, GLBA, HIPAA and a number of other regulations has become a key driver behind information security decision making. This does not necessarily change how security professional do their job, but it will provide for higher profile recognition...
Posted by Dan Sullivan on November 8, 2006 7:55 PM
Some of the most problematic malware these days has a decidedly economic driver behind it. Trojans, keyloggers, botnets and other information stealing and resource controlling malware are the foundation for a underground cyber economy where credit card numbers and PayPal...
Posted by Dan Sullivan on October 25, 2006 9:33 AM
If you use an RSS reader, you can subscribe to a feed of all future entries tagged 'compliance'. [What is this?]
Other tags used on this blog:
