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First, please excuse me for letting my inner Archie Bunker vent a little. If you are anything like me, then you could care less about updating your Facebook page on an hourly basis. Sure, I have a page, but maintaining it is both a bore and a chore (pardon my weak rhyming scheme). What are even wors ...

From time to time, I try to share some of our reader feedback via this blog, whether it is positive or negative. As each year draws to a close, our editorial inbox gets bombarded with threat predictions of all kinds for the upcoming year. Some are company-wide predictions, others come from individua ...

In what may qualify as a profound understatement, the past year has been challenging for security professionals across the globe. Much of what infosec professionals do goes unnoticed, except when things go wrong. And 2011 has had no shortage of these black-eye events. Allow me, however, to highlig ...

Today I spoke with Roger Cressey, a cybersecurity and counterterrorism expert for both the Clinton and Bush administrations, and now a senior VP with Booz Allen Hamilton. I asked him if he was equally amused by the Chinese government’s continuous denials that hackers within its borders activel ...

Many large organizations make preparations for disaster, but the recent hurricane that hit the East Coast of the US illustrates why long-term business continuity planning on a local level can be critical to survival – and your employees’ well being. While much of what we cover here at I ...

It was at about 2 PM when I had settled into my chair to begin moderating our latest webinar on securing cloud servers. Not far into my introductions, I noticed a bit of a rumble beneath my feet, as if someone where taking a jackhammer to the ceiling on the floor below. It was a slight hum at first, ...

As I have done in a previous post, I am taking this opportunity to share with our online audience some of the letters we receive regarding our online and print coverage. This letter comes from a reader of our most recent issue, and my response to his comments can be found below the letter. As always ...

Often when I chat with people within the industry, the one thing I expect is a consistent message akin to a broken record. De-perimiterization, consumerization, defense in depth – the list of things I hear brought up in nearly every conversation is as fine tuned as a political candidate&rsqu ...

Visitors to the recent RSA Conference in San Francisco were treated to a forward-looking keynote by City University of New York professor and television personality Michio Kaku. His presentation on the next 20 years of computing got me thinking about how the security industry will respond to the nex ...

We regret that we did not have space to publish this in our upcoming print edition, but we here at Infosecurity nonetheless thought it was important to provide our readers with this feedback we received recently on one of our web news items. Since it is in reference to an online item, we thought we ...

Here's an end-of-week musing for you all. Did anyone happen to see last night’s episode of The Office? (Yes, I watch television, and I’m not afraid to admit it!) If you did, then the intro illustrated one of the most common security faux-pas out there. In the opening scene the electrici ...

While doing research for an upcoming feature on insider threats, I had a conversation with Nick Levay, information security and operations manager at the Center for American Progress (CAP), a DC-based think tank. Although some of what he shared could not be squeezed into the article, his thoughts on ...

Encryption is the sort of topic that rarely makes it into the mainstream media, but the recent hoopla over BlackBerry security, namely its encryption procedures, has drawn the ire of governments throughout Asia. India, the UAE, Saudi Arabia – all have taken issue with BlackBerry services and ...

Unless I am mistaken – and not being a lawyer, this is a distinct possibility – but the cybersecurity bill proposed in the senate earlier this month does nothing to create a so-called “kill switch” for the internet, one that would allow the president to disable the entire int ...

Late April was highlighted by my first trip to Infosecurity Europe in London. While I understand that this event received its fair share of criticism in the press for being past its prime, there were certainly aspects of the conference that made it worthwhile to attend. (In all fairness, I must disc ...