Two years ago, the Office of Management and Budget launched the Federal Data Center Consolidation Initiative (FDCCI), which aims to close 40 percent of the federal government's 3,133 data centers by the end of 2015. Central to accomplishing this goal is not only closing data centers, but also making...

The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) recently released a report analyzing Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) data breach records. Noting that a large portion of these breaches involved lost or stolen laptops and mobile devices, the report concluded that data c...

Numerous warnings have gone out to companies in highly regulated industries such as retail, finance and healthcare. Despite the growing threat of potential breaches, a recent study found lapses in data security that could put companies and their customers at risk. A recent Security Info Watch articl...

Corporate executives live in constant fear of data breach scenarios which could leak sensitive assets out into the wild. But while headlines regarding elaborate cybercriminal operations may distract their attention, perhaps it would be better placed in establishing greater accountability for those w...

With so many different suspects and strategies capable of breaching data security controls in today's threat climate, companies can easily fall into the trap of overlooking obvious answers. One of the more prevalent - and potentially fatal - mistakes observed by analysts from Quest and Microsoft is ...