Look before leaping into database encryption
"Encryption is the ultimate protection mechanism, because even if someone ". gains access "they will not be able to read the data without further breaking the encryption." Is this quote from the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard enough t...
Startup Secures Data for Audits
You"ve followed all of the security compliance guidelines, but the auditor still isn"t satisfied. How can I be certain, he asks, that no one -- not even IT -- has tampered with this data? A startup company thinks it may have the answer. Kinamik, a venture...
IRS not doing enough to safeguard taxpayers" privacy
The Internal Revenue Service has not done enough to protect the privacy of more than 130 million taxpayers, according to a Treasury Department Inspector General"s report released Oct. 3. The agency has conducted privacy impact assessments (PIAs) on less ...
NIST guide to forensics in incident response
As I mentioned in previous columns, there's a new set of draft documents from the Computer Security Resource Center of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). In addition, SP 800-86, "Guide to Integrating Forensic Techniques into Inciden...
NIST highlights RFID risks
A draft publication from the National Institute for Standards and Technology highlights some of the security and privacy risks associated with radio frequency identification technology. Some of the risks involved can be serious. The threat can extend from...
DLA centers ready for RFID tagging
The Defense Logistics Agency"s network of 19 distribution sites can now track supplies with radio frequency identification technology, the agency announced Tuesday. RFID tagging will give the Defense Department global awareness of all military assets by u...
Medicare data network is vulnerable, GAO finds
The communications network used to transmit medical data for the government"s Medicare and Medicaid programs has security vulnerabilities that could expose patients" medical data and other personal information, according to a report released Tuesday. The...