Deb Radcliff

Organizations are working overtime to design ways to control, via policy and technology, employees' penchant for sharing private information across social networking and mobile devices.

Age-old vulnerabilities, like SQL injection and cross-site scripting, remain prevalent in applications. And that trend will continue, unless there is a fundamental shift in how programs are developed and secured.

Today's flurry of cybercrimes rely on an array of motivations, techniques and technologies, making the job of an investigator to track down the offender that much more difficult.

Federated identity, the process of authenticating someone across multiple IT systems and organizations, is taking on new meaning with the growth of cloud and mobile.

With more organizations hesitant to entrust their sensitive data to the cloud and a handful of high-profile breaches, providers are augmenting their protections capabilities.

Security professionals are recognizing the need to possess operations knowledge that will help them translate security objectives into business enablement.

Ravenous merger-and-acquisition activity is telling of a desire by organizations to consolidate their security and operational tasks, especially as threats increase.

The $1 trillion cybercrime industry is expertly - and competitively - run. Take a peek into the inner workings of these syndicates and how the good guys are closing in.

Enterprises are under constant seige from cyberthreats that continue to evolve to new levels of sophistication, reports Deb Radcliff.

Deep packet inspection (DPI) can be relied on for security and forensics, but also can be used for snooping into online lives, reports Deb Radcliff.