The announcement by RSA that it had been a victim of an advanced persistent threat shook the global information security industry. Stephen Northcutt of SANS Institute and David Navetta of the Information Law Group offer insight on what happened, what it means and how to respond.
A second California state agency has launched an investigation into insurer Health Net's recent information breach incident that may have affected 1.9 million individuals nationwide.
Australia's government agencies can learn a lot from the nation's banks, when it comes to risk management and protecting privacy, says Graham Ingram, General Manager of the Australian Computer Emergency Response Team. "There are too many people in government organisations who are in denial [of risks]," he says.
Insurer Health Net is notifying 1.9 million individuals that their healthcare and personal information may have been breached as a result of nine server drives missing from a California data center managed by IBM.
Virtually every company has protection against email-based viruses and spam. But what about protection of email? Unsecured email travels across the Internet as plain test and can reside for months on multiple servers, vulnerable to interception by hackers and data thieves. You may as well have put it on a postcard...
Businesses today need a technology infrastructure that is highly available, runs on a secure network, and is protected against data loss and unauthorized access. A reliable, responsive, and secure infrastructure is critical to business efficiency and growth. A small chink in your technology armor can damage...
Lengthy downtime, data losses, and security breaches can harm business results, bringing business to a halt: stopping the flow of orders, reducing sales revenue, and interfering with the supply chain. These downtimes could potentially impact a company's ability to compete with other organizations that were unaffected,...
While we still use many of the same old names -- viruses, Trojans and worms -- today's malware deserves much more respect than we are giving it. Today's most sophisticated attacks, known as advanced persistent threats, are thwarting traditional layered security solutions, and a different approach is required. ...
The average cost of a data breach increased 5 percent in 2010 to $214 per compromised record, according to the sixth annual "U.S. Cost of a Data Breach" study by the Ponemon Institute.
A recent healthcare information breach incident involving Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Florida offers a reminder that even routine tasks, like addressing mail, can trigger a security incident.
Some 300,000 clients of the Cord Blood Registry, a stem cell bank, have been notified of a personal information breach involving stolen unencrypted backup tapes.
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