Features

• Security breach

  By Matt Rodgers | 22 September, 2011 09:00

  No company wants to be associated with a data breach, but if your systems are compromised the fallout can sometimes be more damaging than the act itself.

• Heartland CEO on data breach: QSAs let us down

  By Bill Brenner | 13 August, 2009 04:07

  For Heartland Payment Systems Inc. CEO Robert Carr, the year did not start off well, to say the least.

• It's the Information, Stupid

  By Jason Stradley | 04 June, 2009 03:23

  Over the past several years there have been changes in the business environment, causing fundamental alterations in how security organizations operate to protect the enterprises for which they have responsibility.

• 10 IT agenda items for the first US CIO

  By Paul Venezia | 10 March, 2009 08:38

  Obama's appointment of Vivek Kundra marks an important first step for rectifying the nation's concerns about IT.

• When A Company Folds, Who Guards Your Data's Privacy?

  By Pam Baker | 02 March, 2009 09:13

  IT and business both understand the need to protect regulated customer and business data -- so long as they're in business, analysts say. Here's a look at how some folding businesses are falling short protecting data and the possible liabilities for the IT group and CIO.

• How to avoid 5 common storage mishaps

  By Mary Brandel | 10 February, 2009 09:12

  Think you can guess the No. 1 threat to the security of your stored data? If you said hackers, or even trouble-making insiders, you'd be wrong. While malicious threats are an ongoing concern, it's your well-meaning employees who are more likely to unknowingly expose your company's stored data through, say, a file-sharing network or a misplaced laptop.

• How a CIO Should Deal With the Aftermath of a Data Breach

  By Andrew Donoghue | 12 December, 2008 10:34

  When it comes to data breaches, experts agree that prevention is the best cure but what innovative steps should CIOs take if the unthinkable happens?

• Four security lessons from the World Bank breach

  By Joan Goodchild | 15 October, 2008 08:39

  According to a report from Fox News, several servers at the World Bank Group, an organization that offers economic assistance to developing countries around the globe, were repeatedly compromised and breached over the course of the last year.

• Can security's human side stop data breaches?

  By Joan Goodchild | 07 October, 2008 15:29

  Shira Rubinoff was a practicing psychologist in 2004. When it came to technology, her experience was simply as a tech user, certainly not a tech guru. Then one day she was phished.

• Data breaches spark hard-drive shredding boom

  By Bill Brenner | 11 September, 2008 11:50

  Thanks to all the fear over data security breaches, a computer recycling operation has morphed into something much bigger - and potentially more lucrative - for the Saraiva brothers.