Judgment Calls
Regulations such as Sarbanes-Oxley are sending auditors to the pencil sharpener. CSOs must learn to cooperate and share expertise, without getting too close to these empowered examiners.
Identity Management in the Real World
What's identity management? Ask 20 vendors, get 20 answers. But CSOs aren't waiting for a universal definition; they're busy tackling whatever projects meet their business needs.
Scumware Out There
Security vendors big and small are in an arms race to root out spyware and other malicious code, but so far they're all losing. Whats a CSO to do in the meantime?
Aint No Flyswatter Big Enough
What do you do when somebody breaks into one of your organization's servers? When waving your hands wildly doesn't help, you'll need an intrusion detection plan.
Trash Talk
The decidedly unsexy topic of information destruction got very scintillating a couple of years back when the Enron debacle hit the front pages.
The People Paradigm
Bruce Schneier, security technologist and CTO of Counterpane Internet Security, answers readers questions about computer network defenses and sloppy end users
Risk : A Financial View
Markets and money are imperfect metaphors for security metrics when it comes to risk analysis. But, as Senior Editor Todd Datz's discussion with Kellogg School finance professor Kathleen Hagerty demonstrates, CSOs can learn from economists how to look at risk as a collection of factors that account for events both real and anticipated.
AUDITORS, EXPLAINED
But who, precisely, are auditors? Who do they report to? Where does their power come from?
Women of Influence
Four women recognized by Alta Associates, CSO Magazine for outstanding security leadership
Show Me the Paper Trail
After midcentury voting technology in Florida showed its limitations in the 2000 presidential election, lawmakers on Capitol Hill vowed to fix it.
Glossary
Definitions for some of the terms and concepts mentioned in the discussion of applying financial risk methods to security risk
Museum Heist
It was a bold caper in broad daylight and now "The Scream," a modern art icon, is missing.
Strong Safety
A season of big events has passed without incident. Was all that security necessary?
Flying Duo
Boeing and Southwest's partnership teams federated identity management with Web-based application access
Canal Games
For 10 days during mid-August, naval and coast guard forces from eight countries held maritime training activities, called Panamax 2004, to respond to potential terrorist actions threatening the canal.
Everything Is Related
When you pay close attention to a particular topic area, you begin to notice its connections to other tangential areas.
The Metrics Quest
Under pressure from the CFO to quantify security benefits, a CSO finds measures that matter
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.
