Author: Tom Bowers, Managing Director, Security Constructs

The mantra of today’s large enterprise is “protect the content.” New privacy laws and regulations have been shifted to focus beyond the perimeter of the network to the content itself. Most privacy laws state that if content is encrypted when a server is compromised, there is no duty to notify the public. (more…)

Author: Thomas Peltier, President, Peltier Associates

Abstract

Identity theft and identity fraud are terms used to refer to all types of crime in which someone wrongfully obtains and uses another person’s personal data in some way that involves fraud or deception, typically for economic gain.

This article will explain why you need to take precautions to protect yourself from identity theft, what steps you can take to make your identity more secure and what to do if you become a victim. (more…)

Physical and Logical Security Convergence: Powered By Enterprise Security Management

Co-Authors: Brian T. Contos, Colby Derodeff, William P. Crowell, Dan Dunkel

This book features SecureWorld contributor and advisor Dan Dunkel and touches on all areas of security convergence, from high level executive/board issues to the technical details
of enterprise security management. (more…)

Authors: Paul Schofield and Doug Schremp, BTS Partners

One of the primary causes of PCI audit failure is the inability to properly answer the question, “Where are the payment systems?” (more…)

Leveraging The Corporate Guard Force
Author: Dave Tyson, MBA, CPP, CISSP is the CSO for the City of Vancouver

Ask your average IT Security professional what they believe to be their greatest ally in the fight to secure their environment and reduce losses, and they will most likely cite some technology or security awareness program. (more…)

Author: Jackie Bassett, CEO BT Industrials, Inc

It’s astounding how many lessons we can learn from the hacking community. They are brilliantly innovative, impressively agile and technically adept. So how would the hacking community sell security to your CEO, if it was theirs to do so? (more…)

By Chris Wetzel, COO and Co-Founder, InterTech Security

Reprinted with permission, Security Technology & Design magazine, 2007

The Internet has changed the way we shop, entertain and inform ourselves and even the manner in which we protect and secure our buildings and critical facilities and infrastructure. (more…)