Intellectual Property Protection: The Basics
Your company's intellectual property, whether that's patents, trade secrets or just employee know-how, may be more valuable than its physical assets. This primer covers everything from establishing basic policies and procedures for intellectual property protection.
By Derek Slater
Updated 2/142011. This primer has been compiled from CSO articles. Contributing writers include Michael Fitzgerald, Simone Kaplan, and Sarah D. Scalet.
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Test Your Convergence IQ
Offsite meetings are fertile ground for corporate espionage artists. Take this quiz to find out if you can spot the intellectual property risks in a typical room in a conference center.
I've Got a (Trade) Secret
Trade secrets, patents and other legal classifications.
The Clean Desk Test: What's Wrong with This Picture?
Are employee workspaces exposing your company to intellectual property theft? Take our clean-desk policy quiz and find out.
Fighting Trim: An Interview with Bill Boni and Ira Winkler
CSO Executive Editor Derek Slater talks to top IP experts about fighting what they call "the death of a thousand cuts." Ira Winkler also answered reader questions.
Offshore Outsourcing: Big Savings, Big Risk
U.S. companies continue a pell-mell rush into offshore outsourcing of software development. Those that haven't stopped to look at global intellectual property law are in for a big surprise. ("The ABCs of Intellectual Property Protection" draws heavily from this article.)
A Checklist for Handling Terminations
A poorly handled employee termination can create a slew of security risks, including intellectual property theft. That's why CSOs need a process for letting workers go.
Snooping: By Hook or By Crook
Corporate spies come in many guises, but they all have one thing in common: They want to use your company's secrets for competitive gain. This is a five-step guide to how they operate. ("Intellectual Property Protection: The Basics" draws heavily from this article.)
Read more about data protection in CSOonline's Data Protection section.
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The challenge of true data protection spans databases, internal and external networks, physical and offsite storage, business partners and more. These resources offer expert perspective from the basics through specific key elements of data protection strategies.
Network security basics
Protection, detection, and reaction—those are the three underlying principles your security program must embody
Computer incident detection, response, forensics
Richard Bejtlich shows how to measure and improve the maturity of your incident response
A few good IT security metrics
Stop counting blocked malware attachments and measure things that can contribute to meaningful change
5 key cloud security trends
Cloud security is evolving rapidly—stay on top of it
IT risk assessment frameworks
How to do end-to-end encryption
How to compare and use enterprise antivirus
Also find sample data protection policies in CSO's tools, templates and policies library
- The CISO's Survival Guide to Securing Data
- Data Privacy and Protection in Production Environments: New Research from Ponemon Institute
- FireEye Advanced Threat Protection KnowledgeVault
- Five Tips to Consider in a Data Security Strategy for Smartphones and Tablets
- Moving Your Email to the Trusted Cloud
- Comprehensive Server Protection
- DHS cybersecurity official leaves more questions than answers
During lunch at ISSA-LA's Security Summit IV event here at the Universal City Hilton, we heard a talk from - Maiffret: If it's a Linux flaw, your phone is directly threatened
- Alan Paller on cutting through the bull
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