UNITED Security Summit 2011, 19-20 September - San Francisco

UNITED Security Summit 2011 , 19-20 September - San Francisco The UNITED Security Summit is focused on innovation and collaboration in the security community. Bringing together security decision makers, practitioners, commercial vendors, open source projects and academia, the Summit highlights...

Mobile Application Security – The New Frontier

The power and popularity of consumer mobile computing is changing faster then you can say iFart the 1 downloaded app worldwide. Commercial entities are rapidly adopting mobile-based applications for retail sales floors, restaurants and dining rooms, distributed mobile banking, and more...

Hackito Ergo Sum 2011 slides available for Download !

Hackito Ergo Sum 2011 slides available for Download ! HES aims at anticipating the challenges of the security world and gathers together underground or amateur security researchers together with professional security expert researchers and technical decision makers. During three days, HES will...

Enterprises Riding A Tiger With Consumer Devices

Like the old adage that ‘he who rides a tiger is afraid to dismount,’ enterprises today are bounding along on the back of a particularly large and fearsome tiger. It’s called “consumer technology” and its shape is outlined by the myriad of devices and services that modern information workers are...

Malwarians at the Gate: Banks, Businesses and ACH Fraud

Banks and their customers are on opposite ends of a feud over which is responsible when online banking accounts get hacked and pillaged. But where does the fault really lie? Banks and their customers are on opposite ends of a feud over which is responsible when online banking accounts get hacked...

Previewing RSA Conference 2010

Dennis and Ryan preview the RSA Conference 2010 with their friend Tim Whitman, the head of the security practice at Schwartz Communications. Subscribe to the News Wrap podcast on Podcast audio courtesy of The New Radio Tough Road Ahead for Adobe on Security...

Skype Security On the Business Hot Seat

Michael Gough, an information security specialist and president of the Austin, Texas, chapter of ISSA, owner of the web site skypetips.com gave CSO his thoughts on Skype’s benefits and security challenges in the business environment. Read the full article. CSO...

Tough Road Ahead for Adobe on Security

Microsoft and its endless portfolio of products have been the favorite targets of attackers for more than a decade now. But if the events of the past year or so are any indication, it looks like that dubious distiniction now belongs to Adobe. The last 12 months have been rough for Adobe, the make...

Real World Security – Ed Bellis interview

Dennis Fisher talks with Ed Bellis, CISO of Orbitz Worldwide, about the security challenges facing a Web-based business, the value of software security initiatives and the joys of compliance in today’s regulatory environment. Listen to the podcast: Read the transcript...

Real World Security – Bob Maley Interview

In the first installment of a new regular series, Dennis Fisher talks with Bob Maley, the CSO of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, about the challenges of running an information security program in a government agency, the effects of the economy on his efforts and the ways in which user education...

RSA Cryptographer's Panel: Cloud Computing Takes Center Stage

Not so surprising, the state elders of cryptography had a few things to say about the security of cloud computing — but with little agreement. Whitfield Diffie, chief security officer at Sun Microsystems, kicked off the cloud security discussion, stating that while securing the cloud computing...