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With California's data breach notification law now being extended to cover health care organisations, businesses in this space must pay closer attention to how the personal health information entrusted to their care is safeguarded. Compliance experts have advised organisations not to rely solely on technology in their quest for compliance. Identity theft has become a multi-billion dollar issue that continues to accelerate, and protecting against it has become a multi-million dollar business, says Deloitte's Mark Steinhoff. Security experts at McAfee and IBM admit customers are yet to fully grasp the importance of data management despite stronger regulation and a series of highly publicised breaches.
As the Payment Card Industry's data security regulation begins to bite, Barry Mansfield examines its aims and obligations. Companies are struggling to come to grips with the basics of vulnerability management, says Chris Schwartzbauer, vice president of development and customer operations at Shavlik Technologies. The stakes were high when scores of researchers and investigators met Thursday for the twice-annual International Botnet Task Force meeting. People just don’t think that putting family genealogy, exposes them and their families to spying by ID fraudsters and for that matter anyone else (stalkers, paedophiles, employers, parents). A number of leading authorities have been urging caution on the adoption of web-based services as a new wave of vendors unveil cloud initiatives. With new PCI DSS mandates going into effect, web application security will get even hotter. NetIQ's Secure Configuration Manager (SCM) is a combination of client server and web-based components to help organisations manage configurations of workstations and servers. Is ignorance bliss? Not when it comes to data loss. Many retailers are not ready to meet the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS) Section 6.6 deadline of 30 June, analyst firm Gartner has warned. Failing to protect corporate data opens the corporate purse with no guarantee that it will ever be closed again. At the rate data breaches occur, it might be easier for everyone to just post their private information straight to the web. Cambridge University security researcher Dr Richard Clayton argues that BT should be prosecuted because it monitored internet users' websurfing habits without their permission, while the telco declines to say its activities were legal. Australia’s e-security framework is set to receive a major policy overhaul, the Attorney General Robert McClelland has announced. Google has defended its privacy policy following the launch of a service which offers to manage users' medical information online. The serial company founder and SC's CEO of the Year tells Paul Fisher why he knew all along that data-centric security was the future. IBM's Internet Security Systems (ISS) division has launched new services designed to help smaller companies improve their overall IT security systems.