How to Handle Security Patches With Sanity
Guest columnist and network administrator Ed Ziots offers his recipe for a sane and solid patch management program.
How to Invest in Your IT Security Career During Tough Times
Veteran recruiter Jeff Combs offers four fundamental job strategies in the uncertain economy.
Six Essential Steps to Secure Academia
Networks in the academic world mirror the Wild West, where data protection is an uphill battle. CISO Stan Gatewood explains how he pulls it off in six essential steps.
Information Security Governance: Centralized vs. Distributed
Audry Agle, VP at The First American Corporation, on creating a model that works for your business.
How to Fraud-Proof Your Company
Fraud experts focus on ways to combat insidious insiders at the 19th Annual Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE) conference, and a convicted fraudster explains how he went down the wrong path.
Cheap IT Security? The Tools Were There All Along
With the economy flirting with recession, security pros can't afford the security products they were eying a year ago. Fortunately, there are plenty of cheap tools to ensure a solid defense. Some of these tools have been in the arsenal all along, but you never knew it. (Part four in a series: How to Manage Security in a Recession)
Security and Business: Financial Basics
You need to find and use the right financial metrics to communicate security's value to your company. Here are pros and cons of four: TCO, ROI, EVA and ALE.
How to Fortify Your Connection
Any CSO knows corporate LANs are inherently more secure than public Wi-Fi. She also knows that proprietary or confidential information probably passes over Wi-Fi networks every day. Here are some tips to ensure security in the process.
How To Tell If That USB Download Is Really Worth the Security Risk
A new scoring methodology used by City of London Police helps officers see whether the risks involved with sharing data are worth the benefits.
Risk Assessment Tool: Application for Removable Device Media
An excerpt from the form that the City of London uses to decide whether or not to grant officers permission to download data onto portable media. Could this evaluation criteria work for your organization?
Security Directions: A Virtual Conference
Available On Demand Sept. 30 - Dec. 30
Join us for a virtual event with candid, expert information on top security challenges and issues - all from the comfort of your desktop.
Protecting PII: How to Work with IT to Manage Risk
Understand the critical nature of the test data privacy problem and get tips on how to work with IT to implement a test data privacy program.
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