One key factor in efforts to reduce reliance on passwords for authentication will be international acceptance of the FIDO Alliance's soon-to-be released protocol for advanced authentication, says Michael Barrett, the alliance's president.
What are the top 20 books that all cybersecurity professionals should read? Rick Howard of Palo Alto Networks discusses his effort to develop a "Cybersecurity Canon."
A problem federal agencies face in deploying effective continuous monitoring is that there's just too much guidance, former federal chief information security officer Patrick Howard says.
Congress heard testimony from cybersecurity experts this week about the steps that should be taken to minimize the risk of breaches of the payments system. Learn what Troy Leach of the PCI Council and others had to say.
MasterCard and Visa have announced the formation of a cross-industry group that will work on improving U.S. payment security by advancing migration to chip cards as well as point-to-point encryption.
Advice on how to encourage information sharing while preserving control over access to data is provided in a new special publication from the National Institute of Standards and Technology.
Leading this week's industry news roundup, Entrust releases a new version of IdentityGuard with biometric authentication capabilities, while Belkin unveils its Secure Web Camera Adapter.
If Congress fails to enact a national breach notification law, the Obama administration could develop a set of voluntary best practices along the lines of its new cybersecurity framework.
NIST information risk guru Ron Ross, in a video interview, previews new guidance from the National Institute of Standards and Technology that's aimed at helping organizations architect their IT infrastructures to be secure from the get-go.
In the wake of its data breach last year, Target Corp. is overhauling its information security and compliance practices, launching a search for a new CIO and creating the position of chief information security officer.
Russia's offensive military actions in Crimea and its threats to the rest of Ukraine are raising concerns about how the conflict could play out in cyberspace.
Social networking site Meetup has been facing ongoing DDoS attacks. It received a notification the attacks would continue unless it paid a fee, which highlights the rising concern of extortion tied to DDoS.
Phyllis Schneck, the Department of Homeland Security's deputy undersecretary for cybersecurity, equates the department's continuous diagnostics and mitigation initiative with a medical probe detecting an infection in the human body.
By automating data analysis, organizations can enhance their threat intelligence and lessen their workloads, says Flint Brenton, president and CEO of AccelOps.
In the wake of high-profile breaches and data leaks, the government will pay a lot more attention to information security. Are security pros ready for this scrutiny? Professor Eugene Spafford has his doubts.
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