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The Need for Speed: 2013 Incident Response Survey

Information Security Media Group • July 25, 2013

How Organizations Respond to Today's New Breed of Cyber-Attacks From sophisticated new forms of malware to nation-state sponsored attacks and the advanced persistent threat, cybersecurity incidents have evolved at a rapid pace and are taking down entire networks, successfully stealing sensitive data and costing...

Security Agenda: Re-Assessing Risk - Evolving Threats Require a New Approach to Risk Management

Information Security Media Group • February 19, 2013

To mitigate the top threats for 2013, organizations need to understand the motivations of potential attackers so they can adequately defend their networks and systems. What are the top security threats, and how are organizations responding to them? "Reassessing Risk" is the cover story of this 2013 edition of...

Overcoming the Apprehension of Cloud Computing

Information Security Media Group • August 6, 2012

What are organizations' top cloud security concerns, and how are security leaders addressing these concerns through policy, technology and improved vendor management? These are key questions posed by the 2012 Cloud Computing Security Survey, which was crafted with assistance from leading experts in cloud...

Security Agenda 2012: The Year of Mobile Security

Information Security Media Group • March 29, 2012

The bring-your-own-device phenomenon has swept global businesses, and the challenge only intensifies with every new wave of smart phones, tablets and portable storage devices. It's no longer a question of whether organizations will allow employees to use their own mobile devices. That's already happening. The...

The State of Healthcare Information Security Today

HealthcareInfoSecurity.com • November 7, 2011

Safeguarding Patient Information: Survey Reveals Unfinished Business Are healthcare organizations doing a good job of protecting patient information? To find out, we conducted our inaugural Healthcare Information Security Today survey. The survey sheds light on five hot topics: Key Threats and Mitigation...

State of Government Information Security Today: 2011 Survey Results

GovInfoSecurity.com • May 26, 2011

See our Full Coverage of the State of Government Information Security Today 2011 survey. President Obama declared cybersecurity a national security priority in May 2009, in effect making the IT experts at all levels of government the frontline troops defending local, state and federal information assets. To...

11 Top Priorities for Information Security Leaders in 2011

Information Security Media Group • February 1, 2011

2011 is the 20th anniversary of the RSA Conference, and the theme is "Giants Among Us," celebrating the luminaries who founded information security. Here at ISMG, we've been around for about one-quarter of RSA's annual events, and we easily could declare 2011's theme as "Giant Challenges to Tackle." From the...

The Faces of Fraud: 2011

BankInfoSecurity.com • January 25, 2011

Why Banks Must Improve Fraud Detection Interview with George Tubin of TowerGroup Fraud detection and lack of cross-channel integration pose big security challenges for financial institutions. And according to results from Information Security Media Group's new Faces of Fraud Survey, a lack of resources and...

Security Education in 2011

BankInfoSecurity.com • January 25, 2011

Professor Eugene Spafford of Purdue University on the forces shaping information assurance education Could it be that schools, businesses and government are finally coming together to create a dynamic new impact on information assurance education? Gene Spafford is optimistic. Having shared his reservations about the...