http://www.csoonline.com.au CSO Online Data Security Briefing en-us Copyright 2010, IDG Communications, for personal use only, not for redistribution without permission. Fri, 03 Sep 2010 10:45:04 +1000 60 http://www.csoonline.com.au/index.php?id=11855592&rid=-302 Information security governance should not be treated like corporate governance, IT security steering committees must have the right stakeholders and the board can remain largely unaware of security issues. Those are key strategies for effective security governance, says IT security and assurance manager at Sydney Water, Stephen Frede. Fri, 03 Sep 2010 09:41:00 +1000 http://www.csoonline.com.au/index.php?id=1288854669&rid=-302 The promise of cost savings derived from cloud computing is attractive, but concrete financial returns are not always quickly achieved. Except, perhaps, when it comes to disaster recovery. Thu, 17 Jun 2010 05:53:00 +1000 http://www.csoonline.com.au/index.php?id=1929857844&rid=-302 Though most U.S. companies still list customer and other corporate information as their most valuable assets, many keep pushing this data farther from safe lockdown in the data center--and are about to give it another strong shove in that direction. Tue, 18 May 2010 04:42:00 +1000 http://www.csoonline.com.au/index.php?id=1853143514&rid=-302 In many IT security shops, administrators rely on open-source tools to keep up with the malware bad guys continue to toss their way. One industry favorite is Sourcefire, parent of the Snort IDS tool and ClamAV. Thu, 13 May 2010 04:32:00 +1000 http://www.csoonline.com.au/index.php?id=1434644056&rid=-302 Firewall audit tools automate the otherwise all-but-impossible task of analyzing complex and bloated rule sets to verify and demonstrate enterprise access controls and configuration change-management processes. Wed, 12 May 2010 05:02:00 +1000 http://www.csoonline.com.au/index.php?id=1365201978&rid=-302 Amit Yoran was the Department of Homeland Security's first director of the National Cyber Security Division of the Information Analysis and Infrastructure Protection office. But by September 2004 he was frustrated by what he saw as a lack of concern and commitment to Internet security. So he quit his post. Thu, 22 Apr 2010 03:19:00 +1000 http://www.csoonline.com.au/index.php?id=1007426427&rid=-302 In 1993, Private Investigator Joe Seanor had wrapped up employment stints in the CIA and the Department of Justice, and was looking for something new in his professional life. Thu, 22 Apr 2010 00:13:00 +1000 http://www.csoonline.com.au/index.php?id=628360929&rid=-302 The last thing any of us need these days is another uninformed discourse on health care, but I tend to wade in where others have the common sense to keep out. Wed, 21 Apr 2010 03:00:00 +1000 http://www.csoonline.com.au/index.php?id=1529766822&rid=-302 If you think the phrase "It's in the cloud" means that your data resides on the Internet and is thus accessible everywhere equally, think again. Most infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) cloud services share the same residence model as traditional hosting and outsourcing deployments -- they live in specific data centers in specific geographies. This means that customer data is generated and most likely stored in this physical location, giving it legal and privacy implications. Mon, 19 Apr 2010 06:50:00 +1000 http://www.csoonline.com.au/index.php?id=156912179&rid=-302 Cell phones, texting, IM, email, Facebook, MySpace--kids are interconnected today in ways hardly imagined two decades ago. But these technology-based communication platforms also enable new forms of an age-old parenting strategy: monitoring your kids. Who are they talking to? What are they talking about? Are they going where they said they are going? Thu, 15 Apr 2010 07:27:00 +1000