Lest We Forget About Enterprise Security
By Shubhendu Parth, CTO Forum Team
Are CIOs spending less time on supervising what they should be doing the most—strengthening the citadel and securing the digital assets—particularly when corporate wide cyber crimes and espionage have started to show a quantum jump even in developing economies like India? Security may be a key thing that worries CIOs, but there are other things that keep him occupied these days.
Security Assurances are Challenge for CIO’s
From the CTO Forum Team
In an exclusive interview with the CTO Forum, Tom Clare, Sr. Director Product Marketing Blue Coat Systems, cautions CIO’s about the ignorance towards the growing web-based security threats and prescribes simple remedies to prevent from damages.
Optimizing Multiple Enterprise Applications
From the CTO Forum Team
Enterprise applications choke the corporate IT networks, and the blame invariably falls on bandwidth scarcity. Jeff Barker, VP solutions and Technical Marketing at Blue Coat Systems, talks exclusively to Rahul Neel Mani about application optimization and secured delivery.
Strategies for Secure Storage Initiatives
From the CTO Forum Team
As part of their storage security strategy, enterprises must understand the value of such intellectual property in combination with the risk tolerance of the organization before they can address how to appropriately secure it and store it. Moreover, because the value of information changes over its lifetime, so should its storage.
Protecting Your Privacy During a Pandemic
By Rebecca Herold (The Privacy Professor) CIPP, CISSP, CISM, CISA, FLMI
Companies are requiring huge amounts of personal information for quarantine events, and not only about workers, but also family members and non-family individuals who share the same living quarters. What kind of information is your company requiring for quarantines?
WHO Declares H1N1 Pandemic - Now What?
By Bill Brenner, Senior Editor, CSO
On the physical side, private entities should be hammering out a game plan for who would do what and where if the government decided to restrict our movements to contain an outbreak, says Kevin Nixon, an emergency planning expert who has testified before Congress and served on infrastructure security boards and committees including the Disaster Recovery Workgroup for the Office of Homeland Security, and the Federal Trade Commission.
H1N1: Timeline of a Pandemic in the Making
By Kevin M. Nixon, Information-Security-Resources.com Security Editor
On April 29, 2009, Bill Brenner in his article for CSO Online, Swine Flu: To Fear is To Fail quoted FDR’s famous line “The only thing we have to fear, is fear itself.” The point: power is in the hands of those who hold knowledge, or simply knowledge is power.
Effective Spin Turns Crisis into Opportunity
By Heather Bourgoin, Strategic Alliance Coordinator for Integralis
Responding to a crisis requires confident and decisive action – there isn’t time to crunch numbers or analyze data. Decisions must be made quickly - but not without taking care to ensure that the right message – one that is consistent with the messaging delivered during the normal course of doing business – is conveyed. What you say and do in the hours and days following a crisis speak volumes about your business. There are a few best practices that will help your organization to emerge from a crisis with their brand, not only intact, but stronger.
ISR News: Corp Continuity Plans Examined
Excerpts From Finextra.com
With the number of confirmed swine flu cases continuing to rise, a global benchmarking survey of financial institutions has revealed that, although over 70% of firms have a pandemic-specific business continuity programme in place, many may be dangerously out of date.
ISR News: Pandemic Boosts Security Demand
Excerpts From AEFeldman.com
Some of the biggest banks in the U.S. and London are already preparing for the possibility of a swine flu pandemic, with one acknowledging it is “dusting off playbooks” from the outbreaks of avian flu in 2003, as analysts try to predict the potential impact on the global markets, according to Dow Jones Financial News.
