McAfee study - India is fourth lowest in security adoption !

McAfee study - India is fourth lowest in security adoption ! McAfee and the Center for Strategic and International Studies CSIS revealed the findings from a global report 'In the Dark, Crucial Industries Confront Cyber attacks' that reflects the cost and impact of cyber attacks on critical...

The unofficial guide to Facebook privacy !

To fully understand the privacy of Facebook and how it's likely to evolve, you need to understand one thing - Facebook executives want everyone to be public. As the service evolves, executives tend to favor our open access to information, meaning information you think is private will slowly becom...

Ross Klein (Starwood Hotels and Resorts Worldwide)

Klein and Amar Lalvani were two top executives at the Starwood hotel chain when they were recruited by Starwood’s chief competitor, Hilton, to help it start a new line of “lifestyle” hotels to compete with Starwood’s popular “W” hotels. According to a lawsuit filed by Starwood, the two executives...

Mark Zuckerberg's China Visit Signals Facebook's Expansion Plans

It seems that Facebook has now extended a hand of friendship toward China. Mark Zuckerberg has announced that he is going on a vacation to China with his girlfriend. His itinerary includes meetings with some of China's biggest high-tech executives, signaling his intention to extend the reach of h...

Securing Your Security Budget: A Failure To Communicate

With increasingly sophisticated exploits and well-informed adversaries targeting systems and data – fighting for more security budget is essential. Too bad, then, that management doesn’t always agree. Why doesn’t management always see the threats same as many security processionals? Maybe the...

Survey: Information Theft A Bigger Problem than Physical Theft

Anyone who has received “notification” of funky activity on their credit card, or an urgent e-mail plea from the widow of Mobutu Sese Seko won’t be surprised to learn that information theft is a big problem. But a new survey out from Kroll Consulting finds that its also the biggest problem facing...

Survey of Executives Finds a Growing Fear of Cyberattacks

A survey of 600 computing and computer-security executives in 14 countries suggests that attacks on the Internet pose a growing threat to the energy and communication systems that underlie modern society. Read the full article New York Times...

Ponemon survey: CEOs underestimate security risks

From Computerworld Jaikumar Vijayan Computerworld – Compared to other key corporate executives, CEOs appear to underestimate the IT security risks faced by their own organizations, according to a survey of C-level executives released today by the Ponemon Institute. The Ponemon survey of 213 CEOs,...

IT staffs pressured to relax Web security

From SearchSecurity.com Rob Westervelt IT managers are under pressure from the top executives in their organizations to relax their policies on Web security in order to make users more productive. A new survey of more than 1,000 IT managers found that sales and marketing personnel also are leanin...

Five ways to survive a data breach investigation

From CSO Bill Brenner When the digital forensics crew comes in to investigate a possible data breach, company executives often make matters worse by not being prepared. To help companies deal with this issue, CSOonline talks to the experts csoonline.com and offers these five steps that can be tak...