March 07, 2006
Sophisticated worms and zero-day threats plague companies' IT networks daily. Combine these problems with a lack of a defined perimeter, traveling and contracted workers, rising internal threats, regulatory requirements and non-stop vulnerabilities and you're living the chief security officer's daily nightmare. Chris Painter, the deputy chief with the U.S. Department of Justice's Computer and Intellectual Property Section, and Pamela Fusco, former chief information security officer (CISO) of Merck & Co., tell us about some of the more insidious types of information security problems that IT security leaders are facing now and offer up some pragmatic ideas on how to address them