IT Expertise Helping In Haitian Recovery
By Steven Fox, Founder of SecureLexicon
As the Haitian people fight for subsistence, the world is responding with food and medical assistance. This tragedy wreaked havoc on a victim unsung by the news media – the telecommunications infrastructure. However, there is a ground-swell in the technical community targeting this need. George Moraetes is among those that have used their skills to help.
Sun Tzu: PCI-DSS and Situational Awareness
By Steven Fox, Founder of SecureLexicon
PCI provides a set of tactics to protect the confidentiality and integrity of data. Applying them appropriately requires situational awareness and knowledge of the company’s core values and strategy. Sun Tzu’s approach at assessing an army’s readiness for battle can be applied to the attaining this knowledge in a business environment…
ROI and the InfoSec Value Statement
By Steven Fox, Founder of SecureLexicon
A value statement connects a project or investment to the mission and values of the organization and there are cases were value overrides financial ROI. A cogent value statement combined with a best-effort ROI can enhance both the bottom line and the security posture of the company by identifying the operational conditions for success.
Why There Will Be No Year Of The Cloud
By Dwayne Melancon, Tripwire’s VP of Corporate and Business Development
Before vast herds of businesses go running to the cloud, they will want to see that others have done it an not been burned. This is classic bell curve stuff - a few will do it, but it will be a while before the majority of the IT organizations use the cloud in any significant way.
Effective Security Policy Messaging Important
By Christopher Burgess, Senior Security Adviser
Clearly communicate that, in fact, there are secrets. Once employees understand that they have a responsibility to protect the enterprise, the chasm between the security professional and the rest of the staff not only shrinks, it disappears. Far too often, security policies arrive as a reaction, as opposed to a proactive management of risk. Through this process, the enterprise will acknowledge security as forethought, not an afterthought.
SaaS and the Need for Enterprise Architecture
Coby Royer, Technical Product Manager for Symplified
Acquisition and deployment of real solutions is now within grasp of business owners (seemingly) without the need for conventional IT delivery and support. But many questions may go unanswered without engagement of EA, and latent risks (such as compliance and security) may turn into real issues.
Evaluating Corporate Social Media Strategies
Daniel Wallace, Information Security Consultant at Grow Forward
The notion that social media sites are little more than a trendy consumer oriented technology is misguided. Most business activities have legal ramifications and social media is no exception., and legal issues can arise when an organization does not adequately address social media with company policy.
Symantec CEO Optimistic About IT Spending
By Cara Garretson, Veteran Business and Technology Journalist
Symantec isn’t the only company to forecast improved enterprise IT spending based on quarterly results in the past few weeks; executives at EMC, IBM, and Intel all spoke positively about IT budgets rebounding in the coming months.
Everyday Life and the Expectation of Privacy
Coby Royer, Technical Product Manager for Symplified
Regardless of what you feel should or should not be private, we all have a right to set expectations that we trust will be met. And as technologists, we have the capability to improve the state of privacy in the face of technological advances that might otherwise undermine it. Privacy is not an Illusion, it is a challenge.
Top Ten Email Related Disasters of 2009
BY Mel Duvall, Chief Content Officer at CIOZone
Forget about vampires, ghouls and zombies. You were much more likely to receive a fright this year from something lurking in your e-mail. There were the usual crop of Trojan horses and phishing expeditions, and as the surprising list points out, some of the scares go all the way up to White House and the FBI.
