Hospitals and clinics regularly handle thousands of medical records -- as well as other personal information such as patient social security and credit card numbers. Preventing sensitive information from getting into the wrong hands is a huge and complicated challenge for information security professionals.

When individuals lack an understanding of the specifics of a technology, it is very easy to make inaccurate conclusions on how any two technologies are related -- if they are related at all

For information security directors at large corporations, the growing reliance on contractors is a major concern. Local and offshore programmers provide businesses a competitive edge, but they also increase security risks.

A recessionary funk is in the air, and if experience is any guide, IT, and consequently IT security, will be one of the first places CFOs and CEOs will look to slash budgets.

PCI makes perfect sense. So why were so many merchants standing on the dock after the PCI boat has sailed?

Organizations handling credit cards feel pressure building as the deadline for PCI Requirement 6.6 compliance, June 30, 2008, approaches.

World Intellectual Property Day has come and gone, but not for my book -- thanks to anonymous malfeasance on peer-to-peer (P2P) networks.

Online retail success invariably begets fraud, and in the case of many online merchants this fraud takes the form of chargebacks.

I believe that doing things right the first time adds nothing to the cost of a product or service

Any discussion of the IT industry's future inevitably turns to the overarching trend of "greening."