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It was huge news when RSA owned up to the stunning cyber attack in March that stole information that could compromise its vaunted SecureIT tokens. That a preeminent security company could be hacked

The reality today--one that many executives still haven't truly acknowledged--is that every company will at some point face a security breach. We all face the daily risk of an attack. No matter how

Research firm Dynamic Market has taken an interesting look at how IT employees are coping on the front lines of the information security war. The survey of 1,000 IT managers makes clear that the

Company executives would like to think they have done a good job making clear that information security is important. And by some measures, they have. In a recent survey of 2,000, security firms,

This shouldn't be a surprise: thefts of information and electronic data reported by companies have surged in the past year. For the first time, they have surpassed physical property losses as the

If you're an IT security professional right now, you're in a pretty good spot. Even in this recession, you've likely noticed strong demand in the job market. So what's the sweet spot over the next

Non-accelerated filers seem to have won a permanent reprieve from Sarbanes-Oxley 404(b) (Sarbanes-Oxley news), considered one of the most onerous financial control regulations. But that hardly means

Information security was perhaps the top news item of 2009. We spent a lot of time talking about it--in all its forms. The issue is multi-faceted and getting more complex by the minute. Reuters

Last week, we discussed the potential for internal rivalry between the data loss protection (DLP) crowd and the GRC crowd. Of course, traditionally there is even bigger tension between the internal

One of the standard clichés in the industry is that information security managers are at constant loggerheads with internal auditors. Security staff often view auditors as having a less than