In the hours preceding his State of the Union Address, President Obama signed an Executive Order which will expand public-private sector information sharing in an effort to promote comprehensive cybersecurity progress among critical infrastructure operators and financial institutions. Following this...

Recently, Sony's European arm was chastised for its data security missteps in the form of a nearly $400,000 fine handed down from the U.K. Information Commissioner's Office (ICO). In April 2011, a targeted cybercriminal attack compromised the accounts of approximately 77 million Sony PlayStatio...

The simultaneous rise of consumerized IT, mobile devices and cloud computing has ensured that sensitive corporate information is now reaching more people and more endpoints than ever before. As much as they would like to, risk management professionals cannot turn back the clock on this increasingly ...

Data breach scenarios are the stuff of nightmares among IT security professionals, but logic tells them that it may only be a matter of time before their organizations fall victim to an external attack or internal mistake. When disaster strikes, the degree of damage is often dependent on how teams h...

The healthcare industry has been an avid adopter of new technology such as the cloud and mobile devices. The proliferation of electronic health records has yielded significant advantages for doctors and other health professionals, but technology deployments may be accelerating faster than data secur...