Illena Armstrong

 
Illena Armstrong is editor-in-chief of SC Magazine, the leading business magazine for the information security industry, where she manages editorial staff in New York and Michigan. She is responsible for overseeing the award-winning monthly publication and its many other editorial offerings, including scmagazineus.com, the SC Magazine Canada monthly digital editions, numerous eConferences, webcasts, newsletters and physical events in the United States and Canada, and more. She has spoken and moderated at a number of industry events, including SC World Congress, SC Congress Canada, SC Magazine Roundtables, the RSA Conference, the Techno Security Conference and others. On her watch, SC Magazine has won 20 awards, including Magazine of the Year 2009, from the American Society of Business Publication Editors (ASBPE). Before her stint at SC Magazine, she worked for various newspapers and magazines in New England and the southern United States.
 

Recent Articles

SC Magazine's CSO of the Year

March 01, 2011

SC Magazine has recognized Scott Sysol of CUNA Mutual Group as CSO of the Year for his work around data privacy, risk reduction, enterprise-wide IT controls and tapeless backup.
 

Are things getting brighter...or not?

March 01, 2011

Executives are poised to accept the additional expenses required to deploy evolved security solutions as they experience cost savings and increased productivity by relying on the cloud or mobile devices.
 

Innovation evolution

February 15, 2011

Any organization's success is reliant more than ever before on a range of technologies. To neglect messaging to customers through social media is marketing suicide.
 

2011 SC Social Media Awards: Finalists named

February 08, 2011

Cast your ballots today for the most influential security pros on the social web.
 

An accounting of the insiders

February 01, 2011

No matter your view of Julian Assange, his WikiLeaks controversy is the story that just keeps on giving, says Illena Armstrong, editor-in-chief, SC Magazine.
 

Welcome to the SC Awards Blog

January 13, 2011

Stop by to gain the latest insight on what your peers are doing to succeed in today's security landscape. Also, nominations are now open for our 2011 SC Magazine Social Media Awards.
 

Data breach survey: Data during a downtime

January 03, 2011

SC Magazine's annual data breach survey shows that budgets will remain stagnant as threats continue to evolve.
 

Data Breach Survey: Getting the bosses on board

January 03, 2011

One of the findings in SC Magazine's fourth annual "Guarding Against a Data Breach" survey is that you can get compliant with a sound security program in place, but you might not necessarily get security with a compliance-based plan.
 

Keep upward swings going and going and going...

December 01, 2010

With people out of work, insider threats spike and budgets often plummet, says Illena Armstrong.
 

Fending off cyberwar attacks

November 01, 2010

Chicken Little could relate to the likely thoughts of all those cybersecurity players who have warned time-and-again that it isn't a matter of 'if' cyberwar would occur but 'when.'