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You have to think like a thief to protect your data

Slavik Markovich, CTO, Sentrigo Inc. February 04, 2008

Data theft is the primary motive for most intentional data breaches. But the data that criminals seek may not be the information you associate with your organization's primary business.

Scraping: Data theft is scaling up

Ofer Shezaf, vice president of security research, Breach Security February 04, 2008

Data-theft attacks against web applications have expanded in scope—from attempts to extract credit card information from e-commerce sites to scraping entire libraries of valuable information from subscription-based sites.

Learning applications: Revolutionizing data loss prevention

Joel Christner, director, product management, Reconnex Corp. February 07, 2008

Learning applications that add a layer of multi-dimensional intelligence to DLP can identify what high-business-impact data is, who is using it, who should get it, and how it should go to them.

Endpoint DLP: Not the "Be All" and "End All" of data security

John Peters, chief executive officer, Reconnex February 12, 2008

A complete DLP solution offers protection in three domains: At the endpoint (data-in-use), at the network (data-in-motion), and at the file server (data-at-rest).

The legal implications of the PCI data security standard

David Navetta, InfoSecCompliance, LLC April 22, 2008

The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard presents serious legal challenges and risk for retailers.

Compliance: PCI's growing pains

Dan Kaplan February 01, 2008

Some retailers are slow to embrace the new objectives required by the payment card industry.

Data governance: How can you protect what you don't know exists?

Alex Gorelik, co-founder and CTO, Exeros January 14, 2008

One of the biggest tasks companies face as they try to establish data governance is finding the sensitive data distributed throughout their systems and sometimes hidden within other bits of information.

Five years and counting: A SOX data security reality check

George Adams, president and CEO, SSH Communications Security, Inc. January 14, 2008

Time sure does fly. On July 30, 2007, the Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) Act turned five years old! And while the jury may still be out on the degree that SOX is benefiting the average investor, there's no question that if you're reading this, it's changed your life.

Survey: 80 percent of financial security chiefs rely on FTP transfers despite data breaches

William McKinney, Global product marketing director, Sterling Commerce January 08, 2008

A recent survey of 100 IT managers and CIOs from the financial services, health care, retail, manufacturing and government business sectors shows that despite a torrent of bad press on data-security breaches involving FTP (file-transfer protocol), its use is prevalent and growing.

Customer connect: Using security as a market differentiator

Dan Kaplan January 01, 2008

Bruce Bonsall, CISO, MassMutual, says many businesses today are leveraging security as a market differentiator, reports Dan Kaplan.

A holistic view of data-driven security

Gordon Rapkin, CEO, Protegrity December 05, 2007

For too many enterprises, securing data is a never-ending frenzied effort to stay one step ahead of regulatory requirements, emerging threats, hack attacks, insider malfeasance...the list gets longer every day.

Rightsizing your compliance data gathering

A.N. Ananth, CEO, Prism Microsystems November 07, 2007

Poor implementation planning and a lack of real understanding of compliance requirements doom many companies to compliance project lifecycles of unrealistic expectations, expensive implementations and disappointment in the results.

Editorial: Critical data protection grows up

Illena Armstrong January 01, 2008

It seems information security is getting to the front line of business imperatives. More than ever before, executives are giving IT security and data protection initiatives the attention they've required for some time

Opinion: Can we plan security strategically?

Dan Lohrmann, CISO, state of Michigan January 01, 2008

Another year and another set of new resolutions. But can we plan cybersecurity strategically? Some colleagues say no. They insist events are moving too fast.

Debate: Is the best way to protect data on the network by locking down the endpoint?

by George Heron, VP and chief scientist, McAfee, and John Peters, CEO, Reconnex January 01, 2008

PCI compliance: Driving force to better network security

Dave Anderson, senior manager, product marketing, ArcSight December 05, 2007

The Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard is unique compared to other security standards, as PCI provides strong guidance as to how merchants can actually comply with its requirements.