Securing Hardware for Storage and Disposal
By Bozidar Spirovski, CISSP, MCSA, MCP
Any organization should have a simple and brief procedure to treat information carriers for systems that are to be discarded. All that hardware contains a lot of confidential information, and it is essential that such data is properly erased so it cannot be recovered. Here is a brief summary of the crucial information disposal procedure elements.
Network Admission Control’s Swan Song
By Richard Stiennon, Chief Research Analyst, IT-Harvest
With the perspective of six years of data breaches, the rise of cyber crime, phishing, identity theft, and information warfare - it seems laughable that the big issue of employees bringing malware infested laptops into the office spawned so many companies.
California Fires - Federal Request for Info
From The Internet Security Alliance
Please respond directly to DHS via the contacts below if you have any relevant information: The Station Fire in northern Los Angeles County, CA is threatening the Mount Wilson Communications Facility. Some other facilities determined to be of significant critical infrastructure and key resources (CIKR) are the NASA Jet Propulsion Lab, Mount Lukens and Mount Disappointment Communications Facilities, 33Kv, 220Kv power lines, and Gould power substation. The National Coordinating Center (NCC) needs input from its NCS partners regarding anticipated impacts to Federal communications systems and assets.
Four Simple Rules to Improve Internet Safety
By David Alexander, Fraud and Economic Crime Expert
Safety online is a controversial issue, one that is debated to death with little results that the average person can use without an advanced IT qualification. Here are my four simple rules for improving internet safety:
Securing Your Email and Controlling IM Risks
By Simon Heron, CISSP Internet Security Analyst
Currently, people rely on obscurity to keep their data safe. But with progressively more intelligent search engines available that can churn through vast amounts of data and make sense of it – even your email – security is something that needs to be addressed.
Medical Data Breach Reports Likely to Soar
By Doug Pollack, Chief Marketing Officer for ID Experts
In recent years, the number of reported data breaches at healthcare organizations has soared, despite laws requiring the groups to protect patient information. In May, a hacker stole more than 500,000 patient records from a state-run database that tracks drug prescriptions in Virginia — and then demanded a ransom to return the information.
Radisson Hotels Customer Data Breached
By Cara Garretson, Veteran Business and Technology Journalist
Radisson Hotels & Resorts has posted an open letter to its guests, informing them of a recent data breach but offering little additional information. The data that was accessed includes guests’ names and their credit card or debit card number and expiration date.
Identifying Sensitive Data Liabilities for Biz
By Rebecca Herold (The Privacy Professor) CIPP, CISSP, CISM, CISA, FLMI
Any business, of any size, in any industry, in any location, is a possible target for PII theft and cybercrime if they possess any type of employee, customer or other consumer PII. Most businesses have PII. All businesses with PII need to make sure they provide due diligence to protect that PII.
Evaluating Identity Theft Protection Products
By Rachel James, Author and Cybercrime Authority
Spoiler alert: There isn’t an effective identity theft protection product. Typically, a company claiming to be an identity theft protection company will provide one or all of these services; access to credit reports, credit monitoring, and database monitoring. Unfortunately, these services cause security problems themselves.
Navy Plunges into Secure Cloud Computing
By Kevin L. Jackson, Vice President at Dataline
This week in San Diego, CA the US Navy held the initial planning conference for Trident Warrior ‘10. The Trident Warrior series is the premier annual FORCEnet Sea Trial Event sponsored by Naval Network Warfare Command (NETWARCOM). FORCEnet’s experimental results are incorporated into a definitive technical report used to develop Military Utility Assessment (MUA) recommendations.
