February 2007 Issue of SCMagazine

Editorial

Is your provider following the rules?

This month we take a look at the health care markets progress in protecting critical data. Its our first such special section devoted to a ...

2 minutes on

2 minutes on...Hackers hit Patch Tuesday

Now that security pros are comfortable with Microsoft's monthly patching cycle, so too are the malware writers. The bad guys have learned that by putting ...

Opinion

In an age of professionalism

Like thousands of practitioners in our field, I refer to myself as an information security professional. But what does this really mean in terms of ...

A look at Web 2.0 security

Once again functionality has trumped security. Rapid deployment and development of Web 2.0 has left security as an afterthought. While that might sound somewhat gloomy, ...

CSO's desk

Who has authority to accept risk?

A question recently came up that left me wondering about organizational authority to accept risk or, more specifically, enterprise security risks. One of the less ...

Letters

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Update

Company news

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Debate

Is security information management crucial in making sense of event data?

News briefs

Attack targetsPayPal, Barclays Bank and eBay were the three firms most targeted by phishers last month, according to statistics compiled by PhishTank users. More than ...

Features

Be prepared when the court calls

Once upon a time, an employer asked me to sort through the office of a departing technical director for anything the security team wanted to ...

Web content filtering, identity management products trend toward maturity

This was an interesting month in the SC Lab.We looked at two different types of products: web content filtering and identity management. The results were ...

Health care: Duke University Health System's new identity management solution helps doctors and patients

Picture this: A doctor is in a life-and-death struggle to save a dying patient and quickly must check medical records to determine if the patient ...

Health care: Providers fight internal threats with an eye on HIPAA

Each year hundreds of millions of dollars are spent on technology to ward off hackers, viruses, worms, trojan horses and other "barbarians at the gate." ...

Health care: Where are the penalties for failing to comply with HIPAA?

Ten years after its ratification, there's little doubt that the Health Information Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) has provided a strong framework for protecting patients' ...

Special report: IT security and health care

HIPAA was introduced 10 years ago. In this special section, we look at the effects of the controversial legislation has had on the IT security ...

What does a new Democratic Congress mean for information security?

The new Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi represents a district not far from Silicon Valley. Freshly minted Chairman of the House Financial Services Committee ...

IT pros, developers and end users must ally to fend off emerging Web 2.0 threats

Good luck using the internet these days at Royal Food Service, an Atlanta-based wholesale produce distribution company. Only the company's high-level executives have access to ...

Organizations turn to new techniques to fight financially motivated attacks

When the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) recently announced that hackers had compromised a database of more than 800,000 people associated with the university, ...