September 2006 Issue of SCMagazine

Editorial

Lost elections and missing legislation

It was more than just a political upset that U.S. Sen. Joseph Lieberman faced recently. Something else interesting happened during the state of Connecticut's Democratic ...

Update

Company news

Lancope, a network behavior analysis and response solutions provider, has named Adam Powers CTO. Previously director of technology at Lancope, makers of Stealth Watch, Powers ...

Debate

Should organizations be overly concerned about image-based spam?

News briefs

Feds: Improve security Federal agencies worked against an August deadline to implement improved security controls designed to better protect the private information of U.S. citizens in ...

2 minutes on

Criminals join myspace.com

Malware writers have set up shop in one of the world's most heavily trafficked domains, myspace.com. There, they employ social engineering and cross-site scripting [XSS] ...

Me and my job

Me and my job

How do you describe your job to average people? I provide consultation and advice to senior executives about risk to enable them to make the most ...

Opinion

Needed: A holistic approach

Risk management has become a front-burner issue for all corporations due to such factors as the rise of legislative and industry mandates, and the increased ...

Elbow grease, not money

A colleague recognizing a fact of life as a college CISO — that there never is enough money to do things right — told me ...

CSO's desk

Do you know where your data is?

As we are all aware, there has been a rash of reported privacy breaches recently. This likely is because not only is our enterprise data ...

Features

Three days in the valley

The SC Forum 2006 is an exclusive two-day networking event that takes attendees out of the office and away from distraction.

The show must go on

Louis Martorella, network administrator at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center, remembers the irony. The three-person IT staff at the 800,000-square-foot New York convention hall ...

Does testing matter?

Jon Gossels and Brad Johnson have dozens of years of information security experience between them. So when they began hearing customers inquire about their industry ...

Know your client

Ask any IT expert for a cookie cutter approach to protect customer data and there might not be much of an answer. After all, hackers ...

Cover story: PCI persists

When Sara Lee Corporation began its initiative to comply with payment card industry (PCI) data security standards (DSS) two years ago, its security experts had ...

Last Word

A virtual Tower of Babel rises

The Tower of Babel is back. Only this time it's not just the confluence of languages causing discord. Added to the complexity are malicious intentions ...

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