Financial institutions should be prepared to deal with security incidents involving physical facilities, network infrastructures, systems, applications, and most importantly, data, says Inno Eroraha, president of NetSecurity Corporation.

The TJX data breach has made wireless encryption a priority for retailers and other enterprises. Frank Washkuch Jr. finds out why.

Boyne Resorts needed an easier way to protect its network and retail points-of-sale. It found a solution, reports Greg Masters.

Retailers are having a tough time coming into compliance with PCI DSS, but there are solutions out there, reports Deb Radcliff.

Virtualization is showing some extremely compelling ROI and transforming the way corporate IT provisions and administers not only the data center, but also the user desktop experience.

So many application-level zero-day exploits exist today that the question is not whether your computers are safe but what's already running on them. Trojans are a greater threat than ever.

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

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.

This is a very special issue to me and the team at SC Labs because it is based on a year of seeing the good and the not so good. We actually saw almost no bad products, so it was a pretty good year overall. It is special for you because it helps answer the question, "If we are going to buy security tools in the next 12 to 18 months, what should we be looking at?"

We handed out crystal balls to several analysts, consultants, professors and CSOs and asked them to answer questions about next year.