Don't Keep All Your Data in One Stash
If you put stock in a recent survey from Symantec, the company behind the Norton line of computer protection software, 57 percent of computer users who store personal data on their PC's conscientiously back it up. Those people can feel very good about the...
IBM Fights Crime in Canada
When it comes to data classification and search, IBM has adopted a "grow your own" stance via Java-based development tools called the Unstructured Information Management Architecture (UIMA). But a project in the Cape Breton region of Nova Scotia could yiel...
Survey: Data breaches difficult to spot, prevent
IT security professionals are struggling to detect and prevent data breaches, according to the results of a recent survey of 853 U.S. security executives conducted by the Ponemon Institute LLC. Nearly two-thirds of security executives said they have no w...
Disclosure survey
Federico Biancuzzi surveys statements from some of the world"s largest software companies about vulnerability disclosure, interviews two security companies who pay for vulnerabilities, and then talks with three prominent, independent researchers about thei...
Winning the Compliance Game
The Compliance Security Council, made up of the Institute of Internal Auditors, the Computer Security Institute, and Symantec, has been tracking what"s working and what"s not, says James Hurley, executive director of research for the Security Compliance Co...
Confidential Data at Risk: It's five o'clock; do you know where your data is?
A primary reason corporate data security breaches occur is that companies do not know where their sensitive or confidential business information resides within the network or enterprise systems. This lack of knowledge, coupled with insufficient controls fo...
Google to Give Data To Brazilian Court: Request Differs From US"s. it says
Google Inc., which refused in the past year to hand over user search data to U.S. authorities fighting children"s access to pornography, said yesterday that it was complying with a Brazilian court"s orders to turn over data that could help identify users a...