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 Policies

BYOD savings may be lost by security and admin costs

Rainer Enders, CTO of the Americas, NCP Engineering May 15, 2012

Before flocking to a mobile policy in which employees are permitted to connect their smartphones and tablets to the corporate network, consider that the return on investment may not be all it is cracked up to be -- security being a big reason why.
 

SC Congress Canada: Policies can combat mobile worries

May 09, 2012

Experts at this year's SC Congress Canada in Toronto discussed the challenges of BYOD and how implementing policies may be the industry's biggest weapon.
 

Discover your data to protect it

Gerard Curtin, CEO, PixAlert June 01, 2011

Data discovery is a fundamental factor in risk mitigation, says PixAlert CEO Gerard Curtin.
 

Statute of Liberty

David Harley, ESET senior research fellow May 31, 2011

Give me liberty or give me.....?
 

Commerce Dept. suggests online "privacy Bill of Rights"

December 17, 2010

The U.S. Department of Commerce has become the second federal agency in a month to announce plans around improving privacy on the web.
 

Social networks: Criminal enterprise, Pt. 2

Charles Jeter, ESET cybercrime investigator December 01, 2010

Some low level criminal networks have profiles in everyday social networks. Would researching these profiles during cyber intrusion research risk tipping off the bad guys?
 

Opinions mixed about White House's online identity plan

June 29, 2010

Critics of the White House's proposed national internet identity authentication plan, intended to improve online privacy and security, say the strategy may do just the opposite. Proponents, meanwhile, believe it represents a major step toward establishing online trust.
 

Report finds US-CERT mishandling cybersecurity role

June 16, 2010

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) division tasked with coordinating the cyber defense of federal agencies is falling short in several areas, according to an inspector general report released Wednesday.
 

Walking the tightrope: social media and data protection in the enterprise

Mark Menke, chief technology officer, Code Green Networks June 03, 2010

Organizations may want to second-guess a more restrictive strategy on website access and settle on a more pragmatic approach.
 

U.S. cybersecurity policies close to major update

June 02, 2010

A number of major shake-ups to federal cybersecurity policy are closer to adoption after the House passed a defense bill last week.
 

FTC working on new privacy guidelines

April 28, 2010

By the end of the summer, the FTC hopes to release a set of "guiding principles" outlining how businesses should handle certain privacy issues.
 

Securing personal-liable mobile devices on the corporate network

Waheed Qureshi, chief technology officer, Zenprise April 09, 2010

IT departments are struggling to secure the influx of smartphones penetrating today's workplace and this problem won't likely go away soon.
 

Study finds businesses spending too much on compliance

April 06, 2010

A new report from Forrester Research's consulting arm reveals that organizations are focusing too much on compliance and not nearly enough on protecting valuable proprietary information.
 
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