While the financial services industry traditionally has been quicker to embrace cybersecurity than other verticals, the challenges it faces, like meeting compliance and deterring fraud, never let up.

As agencies are forced to do more with less, government security pros at a recent SC Magazine Roundtable discussion said they are being challenged to fight emerging threats and secure new technologies.

Ashwin Altekar, security risk manager at Heartland Payment Systems, says he must first understand the level of risk that technologies create for customers, and then implement controls that manage that risk so it is invisible to customers.

Development teams often ignore application security requirements in order to meet all their hard-pressed deadlines and requirements, says Fares Alraie software security specialist at the Royal Bank of Canada.

A monthly Q&A with an IT security professional.

Hugh Thompson, an adjunct professor at Columbia and program committee chairman of the RSA Conference, got me thinking that, in the face of hacktivism, security these days also means deliberating business practices.

Hackers may have accessed the personal health data belonging to patients of Denver area-based Metro Community Provider Network, a nonprofit health care provider for low-income individuals and families.