Because of the economic conditions, risks to organizations - from the inside and out - are at a critical high. Risk managers at public and private organizations are forced to make careful decisions on how to invest scarce resources.
In an exclusive interview, Joe Restoule, President of the Risk and Insurance...
How is it that Heartland doesn't remain front and center in the mainstream media?
I made the mistake of popping open a browser today and loading my preferred news website, and it was sort of like the ultimate one-two punch that hit me with concussive force.
Most of us deal with the ubiquitous spreadsheet at least once a day in our daily work. Whether it is creating or updating reports for senior management or keeping track of equipment inventories - or the hundreds of other uses for spreadsheets - financial institutions depend on these workhorses to retain and create...
There are a record high 12.5 million people unemployed in this country. The government report today shows the jobless rate in February hit 8.1 percent, bringing total job losses over the last six months to more than 3.3 million. The unemployment rate has soared to its highest level in 25 years.
Despite the recession and record job losses, information security remains a top concern for public and private sector organizations. But what can security professionals do to protect their careers and be considered for these jobs?
In an exclusive interview, Pat Myers, chair of (ISC)2, discusses:
Top security and...
New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo is asking for details about the tens of millions of dollars paid to Merrill Lynch executives before the Bank of America takeover. Cuomo issued subpoenas on Wednesday to seven executives who received these bonuses even at the same time the company's net losses totaled $27 billion...
President Obama created the post of federal Chief Information Officer on Thursday, and named Vivek Kundra, Chief Technology Officer of Washington, D.C., to job.
OK, so how many payment processor data breaches are we talking about - one or two? That's been the big question we've been trying to sort out this week. And I'm not sure anyone knows definitively. If they do, they're not telling.
A report from payroll company ADP shows the American economy lost another 697,000 jobs in February. This is an increase of 25 percent over the 522,000 jobs lost in January. But another report from outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas says job cut announcements have eased from a seven-year high.
Over the years, security and compliance experts at ReymannGroup have performed numerous compliance reviews and risk assessments. Through these engagements and other forums, we have engaged hundreds of executives in discussions about the need for a comprehensive and strategic approach to data security and compliance....
After closing under 7,000 for the first time since 1997 on Monday, the Dow Jones industrial average was poised for a bounceback on Tuesday morning, with stock futures higher before the opening. The markets opened, and the Dow and S&P 500 both were up 1 percent shortly after the opening bell.
Meanwhile, the Treasury...
Cybersecurity is a major priority of the Obama Administration, and at Carnegie Mellon University's Software Engineering Institute, it's a key component of the CERT Program's Survivability and Information Assurance (SIA) curriculum.
In an exclusive interview, Lawrence Rogers, chief architect of the SIA program,...
Critics of the Heartland Payment Systems data breach have called out for tougher encryption standards for financial institutions and their third-party service providers. Applications for encryption are all around us from encrypting email traffic to board communications, remote access and mobile & Internet banking....
Two more banks were closed on Friday, bringing the total number of banks that have failed so far in 2009 to16.
The Security Savings Bank, Henderson, NV was closed by the Nevada Financial Institutions Division. The FDIC, as receiver, sold the deposits of the failed bank to the Bank of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV. Security...
Heartland Payment Systems (HPY) may be the only "new" data breach, after all.
A week after at least two banking institutions and a state banking association reported a new data breach that had been announced to them by Visa, the credit card company now is saying that its recent alerts to card issuers were actually...
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