Updated risk assessment guidance from NIST provides helpful insights that healthcare organizations can apply, says security consultant Kate Borten. Learn more about how to leverage the guidance.
Top executives must be transparent with their stakeholders when their IT systems get attacked. Otherwise, their enterprises' reputations could be more severely damaged, says IBM Fellow Luba Cherbakov.
The failure to take appropriate steps to secure their IT assets leaves small and midsize enterprises vulnerable to attacks from cybercriminals seeking to pick low-hanging fruit.
Infosec pros take note: As the overall number of "true exploits" have decreased, targeted ones - especially those initiated by criminals or nation states - are becoming harder to detect, say IBM's Rick Miller.
Managers and internal auditors don't necessarily see eye-to-eye when it comes to the results of an IT audit. PricewaterhouseCoopers' Carolyn Holcomb explains the challenges and solutions.
NIST's Ron Ross, one of the world's top information risk thought leaders, says new guidance he co-wrote doesn't dictate how organizations must approach risk assessment, but gives enterprises options on how to conduct risk appraisals.
The guidance discusses methods, techniques and best practices for the sanitization of target data on different media types and risk-based approaches organizations can apply to establish and maintain a media sanitization program.
The new report aims to help access-control experts improve their evaluation of the highest security access-control systems by discussing the administration, enforcement, performance and support properties of mechanisms that are embedded in each system.
"With the increasing breadth and depth of cyberattacks ... risk assessments provide important information to guide and inform the selection of appropriate defensive measures so organizations can respond effectively," guidance coauthor Ron Ross says.
September is the peak of the Atlantic hurricane season. How should organizations in the potential path of these storms assess preparedness? Alan Berman of the Disaster Recovery Institute advises.
One takeaway from the $1-billion-plus verdict against Android-maker Samsung for infringing Apple patents is that the users of infringed technology also could be held legally liable, patent attorney Jim Denaro says.
By combining responsible management, risk management and compliance functions and internal audits, organizations will go far in securing their data and systems, says PricewaterhouseCoopers Partner Carolyn Holcomb.
COBIT 5 for Information Security comes at a time when the IT threat landscape is changing drastically. ISACA's Robert Stroud explains how organizations can use the framework to mitigate the risks.
The benefits from employing social media as a way to connect with stakeholders outweigh the risks, says David Bradford, the editor of a new survey of risk managers. Still, he says, the risks must be adequately addressed.
What exactly is continuous monitoring - and why is it so hard for organizations to get it right?
It is one of the most discussed and least understood concepts in enterprise risk management today. Fundamentally, continuous monitoring is about deploying systems to examine all of the transactions and data processed...
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