The mobile game changer
How smartphones and tablets are forcing CSOs to approach ID and access management differently
Bob Violino | 20 Dec | Read more
How smartphones and tablets are forcing CSOs to approach ID and access management differently
Bob Violino | 20 Dec | Read more
Many federal government agencies are well into their efforts to comply with Homeland Security Presidential Directive 12 (HSPD-12), designed to improve identity management among the government entities and their main suppliers.
Bob Violino | 19 Dec | Read more
If you travel to China or Russia, assume government or industry spooks will steal your data and install spyware. Here's how to thwart them
Bob Violino | 04 Dec | Read more
It's an old story: Different risk management functions operating in separate boxes, each oblivious to the other's existence. Security experts have been talking about the need for corporate and IT security to come together for what seems like an eternity. But real cooperation has emerged only in fits and starts.
Bob Violino | 05 Nov | Read more
The future workforce will look somewhat different than the current workforce, according to Alan Ross, senior principal engineer at Intel.
Bob Violino | 17 Oct | Read more
Like many other companies, processor manufacturer, Intel Corporation, is having to evolve its information security focus to meet the changes underway in the technology landscape—particularly with the rapid growth of mobile devices and applications and the rise in cloud computing services.
Bob Violino | 16 Oct | Read more
Los Angeles World Airports (LAWA), the department that oversees three airports in the LA area, recently implemented a business continuity and disaster recovery plan for the Los Angeles International Airport (LAX). As part of the effort, the organization conducted a tabletop exercise on what would happen if an earthquake struck LAX.
Bob Violino | 11 Oct | Read more
If you're CIO at a large enterprise -- or a small one, for that matter -- chances are good that you're seeing a steady rise in the number of employees using smartphones and tablets at work.
Bob Violino | 24 Sep | Read more
About five years ago Genomic Health began to introduce cloud-based business applications. Ken Stineman, senior director of enterprise architecture and security, quickly became aware of the security risks these apps posed.
Bob Violino | 04 Sep | Read more
Today's governance, risk management and compliance (GRC) software has useful features that can help organizations get a better handle on how they're managing risk, security and compliance issues.
Bob Violino | 22 Aug | Read more
Today's governance, risk management and compliance <a href="http://www.csoonline.com/article/674709/it-grc-tools-control-your-environment">(GRC) software</a> has useful features that can help organizations get a better handle on how they're managing risk, security and compliance issues.
Bob Violino | 22 Aug | Read more
These days, organizations are facing increasingly sophisticated information security attacks from multiple sources. At the same time, they're struggling to comply with a growing number of government and industry regulations, and they're facing pressure to put in place better corporate controls.
Bob Violino | 22 Aug | Read more
Intrusion prevention systems — security tools designed to stop problems even before they crop up — have emerged as indispensable components of defense-in-depth security strategies.
Bob Violino | 23 Jul | Read more
As we've seen in recent years, natural disasters can lead to long-term downtime for organizations. Because earthquakes, hurricanes, snow storms or other events can put data centers and other corporate facilities out of commission for a while, it's vital that companies have in place a comprehensive disaster recovery plan.
Bob Violino | 19 Jul | Read more
It’s hard enough to secure resources when they are bound to a physical box, but the game changes when servers are virtualized and start to move around, not only to other servers in the data center, but also to off-premise cloud facilities.
Bob Violino | 16 Jul | Read more