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


Business Needs to Get Out Ahead of Security Regulation

An interesting quote in a USA Today story on security company acquisitions speaks to the increasing level of concern about current levels of information security....

Another Item for Obama's To Do List: Cybersecurity

It seems to be in vogue for news agencies to push "Memos to the President Elect." I could do without the pretensions but I was glad to see at least CNN took on the issue of cybersecurity....

Will We Eventually Need a Budget Line Item for Cybercrime?

According to the Information Security Forum, cybercrime is (not surprisingly) growing and business are more vulnerable to the cost implications of this kind of crime....

Time for New Security Metrics

How do you estimate a security measure to decide whether or not to invest in it? In traditional risk management, it's a matter of calculating annualized loss expectancy (ALE). If that is a term that wasn't cooked up by non-security...

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...

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....

Evaluating Your Security Management Program: What to Look For

The latest article in the Essentials Series: Messaging and Web Security - Volume III looks into how to keep your security management plan in synch with other business objectives. Here's an excerpt:...

Latest Messaging and Web Security Article Series Available

The Essentials Series: Messaging and Web Security - Volume III continues the series' focus on managing IT infrastructure and applications in an increasingly complex security environment. The articles are especially geared towards application developers, database administrators, Web architects, andsystems managers,...

Where to Spend Your Security Budget Part 2: Evaluating Security Options

We've just posted another article on security budgeting and getting the most value for your money when it comes to choosing a combination of security measures. Here is an excerpt: We all want to maximize the benefits of our security...

Security Spending in All the Wrong Places

Peter Tippett, VP of risk management at Verizon, chief scientist ICSA Labs and a developer of anti-virus programs, thinks we're not paying attention to the data on what is and isn't effect allocation of security resources. Dark Reading has a...

Société Générale, Predictability and Overlapping Countermeasures

The $7 billion fraud at the Société Générale has to have a lot of bankers and trading managers wondering if something like that could happen to them. A couple of writers have pointed out that predictability is a key weakness...

IBM Security Pushing a Good Idea with a Terrible Name

Security is broken, or at least that's the word from Stuart McIrvine, director of IBM’s Corporate Security Strategy, and IBM is going to help fix it. Judging from the limited information we have so far, IBM is on the right...

SMBs Need to Pay More Attention to Security

A new report out of Webroot Software discussed in eWeek argues that SMBs are "sitting ducks" for cybercrime: In most industrialized countries, SMBs make up 97 to 99 percent of all companies. Yet most of those small to midsize businesses...

Establishing an Organizational Security Framework

Those who work in security and systems administration could spend every hour of every day down in the trenches dealing with the latest threat, reconfiguring devices, patching applications, and telling others to stop downloading non-work related material from P2P networks....

Ubuntu Server Attack Has Clear Lesson, and Not So Clear One As Well

On Monday night several Ubuntu servers, sponsored by Cononical and maintained by the community, were found to be compromised. The sys admins took the machines off line and began a cleanup operation. The problem stemmed from a combination of too...

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...

Microsoft Profits Up, Security Market Up, Too

Money is being made all right, and not just at Microsoft. The security market news includes record profits and mergers, both positive signs, at least from a business perspective. Some, like Bruce Scheiener, are wondering why we should need security...

Earthquake Disrupts Internet in Asia: Risk Management Goes Only So Far

An earthquake earlier today on the southern coast of Taiwan disrupted Internet services in Hong Kong, Japan, Taiwan and parts of India. As Marketplace report Amy Scott says, this ripple effects on business extended beyond the immediately affected area, "In...

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...

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