August 2006 Issue of SCMagazine

Editorial

CISOs are only part of the plan

Can CISOs and CSOs make a difference in the companies for which they work? Can they shape a successful IT security program that promotes a ...
 

2 minutes on

2 minutes on ... EMC and RSA unite

This year has been a big one for security mergers and acquisitions, but it is likely that no deal will be as momentous as the ...
 

Opinion

An inescapable evolution

A few years ago, the notion of carrying around a phone with communicator-like capabilities would have sounded far-fetched. Yet, the arrival of dual-mode phones and ...
 

Sometimes, things just work

I write a group review in this magazine just about every month. As you might imagine, we get a lot of argument about some of ...
 

CSO's desk

Remember: answer the questions

Most of the different methods of security reporting deal with the specifics of what data points to collect, when to collect them, and where to ...
 

Letters

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Update

Me and my job

What do you like the most about your job? The changing demands in security. Never the same problem twice. I have never had two days ...
 

Company news

Louis Turpen, former CEO of San Francisco International Airport, has joined Vidient Systems' Board of Advisors. Turpen will lend his counterterrorism experience while on the ...
 

Debate: Congress should make data breach legislation a priority

Congress should make data breach legislation a priority.
 

News briefs

More military woes The personal information of about 28,000 U.S. Navy sailors and their family members was posted on a public website, a month after the ...
 

Features

House advantage

Nothing says "good fortune" louder than the clatter of coins cascading into the winner's tray of a slot machine. But these days that jangle is ...
 

The coming storm

Ask IT security experts to forecast the future of mobile device security, and their crystal ball might become a little murky — possibly because of ...
 

Cultivating good code

If there is one incontrovertible truth about software development, it's that there is no way to write perfect code. No matter what developers do to ...
 

Can we talk?

Ma Bell, meet your precocious newborn, Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP). The technology, just a few years old, is growing up fast as enterprises and ...
 

Dealing with disaster

It's every executive's nightmare. After several days of heavy rain and unexpected flooding, the office is drenched in water and the IT infrastructure is almost ...
 

Cover story: Coming up roses

If the online marketplace were a family, 1-800-flowers.com could be considered a patriarch. In 1992, the flower distribution business joined AOL as the internet service ...
 

Last Word

Missing laptop, missing policy

A dedicated federal civil servant took work home. Unfortunately, the federal agency he worked for had not taken easy steps to make that practice safe ...
 
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