Want to make your endpoints and servers more secure, and easier to manage? Consider the Trusted Platform Module (TPM), a hardware-based cryptography chip built into virtually every enterprise PC and notebook, and now installed in over 100 million PCs.

The pressure to move records to an electronic format is stronger than ever, but at the same time the risk and awareness of privacy violations are on the rise.

HIPAA in its current form fails to adequately protect patient data. There is a lack of oversight, guidance and enforcement.

It takes reinforcement to drive home a security message.

Even if vendor security is not on the radar of your regulators or auditors, you may still want to consider how a vendor information security program could help you reach your greater aim of ensuring the confidentiality, integrity and availability of your organization's information assets.

Easing the burden of security and compliance must come from all participants in the retail environment.

If an organization is going to successfully protect its data, it must aim for preventing a breach, not passing an audit.

June 30 marks an important date for any company that takes online credit card payments. On that date, a section of the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards (PCI DSS) becomes mandatory. The transition shows that web application security is the biggest security threat faced online.

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.

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