Improve your security leadership with one lesson from improv
"Your job is to make your partner look like a rock star."
Michael Santarcangelo | 11 Aug | Read more
"Your job is to make your partner look like a rock star."
Michael Santarcangelo | 11 Aug | Read more
A July cyberattack on Booz Allen Hamilton will not materially harm the company's bottom line, its CEO said Tuesday.
Robert McMillan | 10 Aug | Read more
While still not great, the operating systems behind Apple desktops, laptops and phones are getting more secure, <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/080411-blackhat-overview.html?hpg1=bn">researchers at Black Hat</a> say.While not recommended for corporate use unless it’s in islands within larger networks, the OSX operating system has made strides, says Alex Stamos, who lead a team of researchers from iSec Partners that researched the OSX and Windows 7 operating systems.
Tim Greene | 08 Aug | Read more
Section 922 of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act --- increasing the protection for whistleblowers -- amends the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934 by allowing the Securities and Exchange Commission to offer awards to individuals providing original information about a violation of federal securities regulations. Next Friday, on Aug. 12, <a href="http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/BILLS-111hr4173enr/pdf/BILLS-111hr4173enr.pdf">these whistleblower provisions</a> go into effect.
Karen M. Kroll | 03 Aug | Read more
Intel appointed new leaders to run the McAfee subsidiary as David DeWalt resigned as the unit's president, the company said on Wednesday.
Simon Crosby, the former CTO of Citrix Systems' data center and cloud business, has formed a startup called Bromium that will aim to solve security problems in a cloud environment.
Stephen Lawson | 23 Jun | Read more
As more people create Facebook profiles (500 million and growing), and sign on to the many social media sites available today, hiring managers are finding they have new opportunities to get background information on job candidates.
Joan Goodchild | 16 Jun | Read more
Security vendor Sophos plans to buy Astaro, a maker of network security software.
Robert McMillan | 07 May | Read more
Zeus Technology has bought application firewall vendor Art of Defence for an undisclosed amount and promises tighter integration with Zeus' application delivery controller.
Tim Greene | 10 Jun | Read more
Attachmate intends to revitalize the sales and technical development of the end-user computing products that it acquired when it purchased Novell, such as those for virtualization and enterprise collaboration.
Juan Carlos Perez | 18 May | Read more
Social networks such as Facebook and Twitter open threats to sensitive corporate data that businesses need to deal with aggressively, Interop attendees were told.
Tim Greene | 14 May | Read more
China's data privacy protection has long been considered one of the world's weakest. But the government's proposed data security guidelines may go too far in the opposite direction.
Stephanie Overby | 05 May | Read more
Can a chief information security officer (CISO) help prevent the kind of massive data breach that occurred in the Sony PlayStation network breach last month in which attackers grabbed personal information on an estimated 77 million customers of the PlayStation and Qriocity online games?
Ellen Messmer | 03 May | Read more
One of CIOs' biggest concerns about the infrastructure-as-a-service model has been the loss of control over assets and management that enterprises might experience upon moving into a multi-tenant environment. While analysts and early adopters of infrastructure-as-a-service offerings have argued that such apprehension is rooted more in fear than fact, Amazon's recent public data center debacle has given everyone good reason to question the reliability of the public cloud.
Stephanie Overby | 26 Apr | Read more
A U.S. committee that overseas foreign investments will likely recommend that President Barack Obama reverse a deal by Chinese network supplier Huawei to acquire intellectual property from a U.S start-up, according to a report by The Wall Street Journal.
Michael Kan | 11 Feb | Read more