ISA Presents Melissa Hathaway With Award
From The Internet Security Alliance
The Internet Security Alliance presented Melissa Hathaway with its annual award for vision in cyber security Tuesday during an event at the National Press Club. Hathaway, the Obama Administration’s former acting cyber security chief, received the McCurdy Award on the one-year anniversary of when she began her 60-day review of the government’s cyber security program. ISA believes that Hathaway’s work, if implemented, would result in the establishment of a modern partnership between the public and private sectors, which is necessary for an effective and sustainable system of cyber security.
Advantages of Data-Focused Risk Assessments
By Danny Lieberman, Security Expert and Founder of Software Associates
The detailed reasons why people fail at DLP implementations merits a separate post – but it’s a lot like why over 50% of the content management implementation from vendors never made it to production in the 90s – the root cause was that there was no real business case for the technology. Unlike business processes – data risk cannot be outsourced.
ISAlliance Event Featuring Melissa Hathaway
From The Internet Security Alliance
The ISA will present Melissa Hathaway with an award for her contributions to cyber security, exactly one year after the Obama Administration appointed her to conduct a 60-day review of the government’s cyber security program. There will also be a question and answer opportunity with Hathaway and ISA President Larry Clinton.
How To Valuate Crucial Information Assets
By Danny Lieberman, Security Expert and Founder of Software Associates
Estimating asset value is without doubt the most frequent question we get when it comes to calculating data security risk in monetary terms. A common mistake made by marketeers who work for data security vendors is to estimate the cost of a data security breach as the number of records multiplied by some plug number. The cost of a data security breach to a company is not the same as the cost of a customer data record breach to a customer…
Hackers Conquer Two-Factor Authentication
BY Mel Duvall, Chief Content Officer at CIOZone
“Fraudsters have definitely proven that strong two-factor authentication processes can be defeated,” said Avivah Litan of Gartner. “Enterprises need to protect their users and accounts using a three-prong layered fraud prevention approach that uses stronger authentication, fraud detection and out-of-band transaction verification and signing for high-risk transaction.”
Is Information Protection Even Possible?
By Danny Lieberman, Security Expert and Founder of Software Associates
The author of a ComputerWeekly article correctly identifies that it’s easier to access data and leak it than it is to modify or delete data. However, the notion that data is out of control in the corporate world is an over-reaction, and does a mis-justice to most businesses.
Data Breaches Show PCI DSS Ineffective
By Danny Lieberman, Security Expert and Founder of Software Associates
Are companies assuming that a data security breach is cheaper than security? If PCI is a failure, it is not because it doesn’t prevent credit card theft; there is no such animal as a perfect set of countermeasures. PCI is a failure because it does not force a business to use it’s common sense and ask practical, common-sense business questions.
ISAlliance Delivers Cyber Security Report
By Anthony M. Freed, Information-Security-Resources.com Managing Editor
Typically, the economics of cyber security are not readily transparent and they are poorly appreciated. When defensive investment is compromised by factors beyond an organization’s control, the motivation for continued investment is reduced substantially. Effective and sustainable improvements in our collective cyber security posture will stem from a comprehensive understanding of how to effectively motivate all players across our economic landscape to actively engage in proven best-practices in both their business and individual cyber activities.
ISAlliance: Cyber Security is Economic Issue
By Anthony M. Freed, Information-Security-Resources.com Managing Editor
“First, the President is correct in his appreciation of the need to view cyber security as not just a technical and security issue, but as an economic one as well. In the 21st century - the digital century - economics and security are opposite sides of the same coin. You cannot affect one without impacting the other.” ~ Congressional Testimony
ISAlliance to Testify for Senate Judiciary
From The Internet Security Alliance
Larry Clinton, president of the Internet Security Alliance (ISA), will testify tomorrow at a U.S. Senate Judiciary Terrorism and Homeland Security Subcommittee hearing titled, Cybersecurity: Preventing Terrorist Attacks and Protecting Privacy in Cyberspace.
