Antiforensic Tools
It's important to protect your company's data. But how do you know whether what you think you've erased is actually unrecoverable?
The Conductor
Visitors to Lou Magnotti's office had best be prepared for a mélange of metaphors. Magnotti, describing his job as CISO for the U.S. House of Representatives, is by turns a basketball coach, a movie critic and a professor. One metaphor, however, stands out as more fundamental than the others: Magnotti is a locksmith. And the connection is more subtle than it might appear at first blush.
The Entrepreneur
Mark Barnes has taken a passion for learning about business and security and made himself into a respected leader who can convey security's value to his executive team
The Mediator
To get the job done at a major seaport, Graham Kee convinces dozens of competing stakeholders that collaborating on security helps everyone succeed
How To Move Up
Pete Metzger leads the Global Security Practice for executive search firm Heidrick & Struggles International and is a CSO magazine online career advisor. Metzger has had 25 years of experience in leadership and operational security roles, and has worked with the CIA, FBI and U.S. Secret Service. He answered readers' career questions.
HIPAA Compliance:Time's Up
CSO sat down with Partners Healthcare CISO Bob Pappagianopoulos to talk about the HIPAA mandate and its challenges.
Leaders by Example
Every security job is different, but the goal is the same: Create business value. In the following pages, five leaders show how they build teams, forge consensus and measure performance to make security far more than a cost center.
Biodetection
It's been more than three years since anthrax mailings dominated the national headlines and squeezed the public's psyche in a vise grip of paranoia and fear. At that time, letters tainted with anthrax spores were mailed to a number of places.
Top 12 Things to Do Before You Hire
HireRight, a preemployment screening agency that works with businesses across the United States, has come up with some best practices for employment background screening.
Now Playing...
Employee education films aren't just for HR anymore. There are some sharp training films on the market to educate employees about security policies. We reviewed offerings from Icon Training Materials and Commonwealth Films.
More Monitoring Needed
E-Mail The ePolicy Institute and American Management Association recently surveyed 840 employers about their e-mail and instant messaging policies. The groups' warning: These policies need work.
Whose Risk Is It, Anyway?
If you ran a company whose business model consisted of a constant promiscuous intimacy with risk, it would be your fondest wish to offload as much of that risk as you could.
Tales from the Front Lines of Convergence
Our CSO gives the straight story on what he's learned about bridging the gap between information security and physical security
Do-It-Yourself Disclosure
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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.
