Measuring success: Performance metrics
Security metrics remain elusive for many organizations, but key performance indicators, or KPIs, are achievable measurements that can help guide business planning and strategy.
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Print Issue: August 01, 2012
Sharing the pie: Threat collaboration
Many view information sharing as an elusive quest, hampered by various roadblocks. But Georgia Tech researchers want to tear down these hurdles with a new threat intelligence system known as Titan.
Staying out of the headlines
Yahoo presumably took no measures to ensure sensitive stuff like customer account credentials were kept safe and sound.
First: Define critical infrastructure
Consensus needs to be developed around how critical infrastructure is defined, says Mark Clancy, managing director and CISO for The Depository Trust & Clearing Corp.
Ping Identity
Authenticating to a SaaS application in the cloud should be simple. It now Is.
U.S. cyber coordinator moves on
Security veteran Howard Schmidt filled a spot few others reportedly wanted: the role of U.S. cyber security coordinator. Two-and-a-half years later, he’s leaving the job, feeling accomplished.
Pervasive protection: Endpoint security
Endpoint security today is responding to the needs of the enterprise in ways it has not in the past, says Technology Editor Peter Stephenson.
Threat of the month: MS zero-day
The threat of the month for August is the MS zero-day.
Debate: The evasiveness of Flame may have been what prevented
The evasiveness of Flame may have been what prevented traditional AV technology from catching it sooner.
News briefs: Anonymous takes credit for hack, and other security news
Anonymous, WikiLeaks, DNSChanger, Stratfor, global cyber crime ring…and other breaking news.
