Emerging products: Virtual system security
Don’t presume the vShield will protect you. That actually is not the case, says Peter Stephenson.
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Print Issue: March 01, 2013
Unified threat managers (UTM)
How unified is “unified”? Judging by this year’s crop of unified threat managers under review, pretty doggone unified, says Peter Stephenson.
Preparing for the new norm: 2013 Guarding against a data breach survey
With almost daily advanced attacks, organizations of all sizes must be at the ready, according to respondents to this year’s “Guarding Against a Data Breach” survey. Illena Armstrong reports.
CSO of the Year: John South, Heartland Payment Systems
John South joined Heartland Payment Systems when it still was reeling from a devastating breach…and it’s the best career decision he’s ever made. Dan Kaplan reports.
Book of the night
Our program profiling the winners and finalists of the 2013 SC Awards U.S., held Feb. 26 in San Francisco.
Just get on with it already
Offering up more general guidelines to strengthen the country’s critical infrastructure security – as in the president’s recent executive order – is all well and good, but without any meaningful and enforceable requirements then, really, what’s the point?
Debate: The FTC should have the right to penalize companies for poor data security/privacy practices.
This month’s featured debate informs whether the FTC should have the right to penalize companies for poor data security/privacy practices.
Maximizing quality and reliability
Information security executives must work to “engineer” their organizations to be better, faster, cheaper – and more secure, says Rafael Diaz, CISO, state of Illinois.
Threat of the month: Java zero-day
Java zero-days are the “threat of the month,” a vulnerability that allows remote code execution via browsers.
The influence of overseas reforms
The European Union is close to implementing an information protection law that will homogenize the responsibility of all of its 27 member states, which could have a ripple effect in the U.S.
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