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Entries from Realtime Community | Messaging and Web Security tagged with 'compliance'


Key to Online Apps Success: Control, Control, Control

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....

Massachusetts Delays New Data Protection Regulation

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....

No, We Aren't Doomed

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...

Palin Email Hack Shows Why Mixing Business & Personal Emails Such a Bad Idea

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...

Fines Part of Cost of Security Breach

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...

Implementing Centralized Policy Management

We've just posted a new article on centralized policy management. Here is an excerpt:...

Improving Policy Compliance with Automatic Remediation

We've posted a new article on policy compliance and remediation. Here's an excerpt:...

Getting Started with Governance, Compliance and Risk Management

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...

Management Issues in Full Disk Encryption

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...

Cloud Computing Security

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....

Real Compliance Requires Technical Expertise

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....

Supermarket Breach, PCI and Responsibility

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...

Latest Retail Breach Targets Data During Transmission

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...

What Good is a Security Policy if We Ignore It?

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...

Database Auditing

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...

5 Things to Consider with Mobile Device Encryption

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...

Should You Use Online Replacements for Desktop Applications? 12 Things to Consider Before Making the Move

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...

Data Protection Bill killed in California

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...

More Security and Compliance Tools for Google Apps

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...

Microsoft Makes More Moves to Software as a Service

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...

McAfee CEO: Cybercrime Bigger Than Drug Trade

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...

Data Loss Prevention Tools - What the Market Has to Offer

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...

TJX Breach Costs Continue or How to Save Your Company Almost $112 Million

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...

Data Breaches Threaten Intellectual Property and Bottom Line

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...

Google Acquires Security Vendor Postini

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...

Which is Better: BitLocker or Hardware Encryption?

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...

Getting Started with Security Information Management

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...

Improving Security of Online Transactions

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...

Compliance and Web Application Security

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...

Is Compliance the Key to Raising Security Awareness?

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...

Supporting Compliance with Risk Management

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...

Preventing Data Loss is Key Element of Compliance

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...

Good Cyber-Citizenship or Self-Incrimination?

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...

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