Don't Lose Your Head
Intellectual property isn't always easy to identify. It's even harder to protect. Here's how CSOs can work with others to protect their companies' future.
Hard-Disk Risk
Are all those old hard drives you're getting rid of completely wiped clean of important company data? Don't be so sure.
Safe Harbor
From Boston's Logan Airport to the city's waterfront shipping facilities, CSO Dennis Treece patrols an anxious perimeter.
The FUD Factor
Fear, uncertainty and doubt may help scare your company into short-term compliance, but CSOs say that's a shortsighted strategy.
Look Risk in the Eye
Radianz CSO Lloyd Hession answers readers' questions about information technology risks.
Taking the Internet by Storm
The sudden emergence in January of the Slammer worm called attention to the vital role played by Internet monitoring services such as the Internet Storm Center (ISC) at The SANS Institute.
Security Immaturity
A survey of the state of information security, as measured against ISO guidelines, shows plenty of room for improvement. Is the problem a lack of overarching vision, a dearth of adequate resources or a little of both?
The Ripple Effect
Despite the proliferation of cameras on street posts to monitor pedestrians and traffic in European cities, a recent IDC study shows that security investments in the United States are four times as high as they are in Europe. But that is changing.
A Call to Inaction
Bush's National Strategy has a hands-off approach, essentially asking the private sector to police and solve its own security problems.
May I Secure the Envelope Please?
Garrison commandeers a group of accountants that tabulates the Oscar nominations and preserves the security of the results until each envelope is unsealed on stage.
Dear Friend...
First off, that is not the personal assistant to the former king of Rwanda e-mailing you.
Don't Get Too Attached
Security concerns over wireless local area networks will dissuade many of you.
One CSO's Toolkit for Executive Communication
When Jim Mecsics, vice president of corporate security for Equifax, goes before corporate management, he's fully armed with facts, figures, research and analysis
Toolbox
Feeling their customers' pain, providers of information security software, hardware and services, from the simple to the extremely complex, are creating return on investment calculators.
Stick It to 'Em
In June, Huff and two colleagues received a patent for a platform designed to allow companies to take an offensive approach to intrusion response.
Who's Afraid?
Getting caught crying wolf on issues of national security could have serious ramifications, says Jim Albertine, president of the American League of Lobbyists.
Defining IP
To protect your company's intellectual property, you have to understand what is valuable to your company. To do that, you need to be able to define intellectual property for yourself.
Mistrust Never Sleeps
As I write this, the country is deciding whether to pass or play at war. I live in the Washington, D.C., area, where our nerves are shot. During the past year and a half we've lived with the anticipation of terrorists, anthrax, then snipers. We're back to terrorists again. Safety has become a commodity as tangible as duct tape or gas masks; it is the negative space left behind when fear is erased.
Imagining Godzilla
Only by imagining the worst that could happen can we comfortably hope for the best.
Certification Uncertainty
Would I want to belong to a club that had me as a member? As it turns out, I do.
Attention Shoppers...Private Life
The Bay area computer programmer, dismayed by privacy's eroding standards, has integrated privacy into everything he does. Everything.
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.
