In Pictures: 10 surreal moments in infosec history
A look at moments in infosec history that left us dumbfounded.
Bill Brenner | 15 Apr | Read more
A look at moments in infosec history that left us dumbfounded.
Bill Brenner | 15 Apr | Read more
A look at the sights and sounds of the world's biggest annual information security event.
Bill Brenner | 01 Mar | Read more
A year ago--perhaps a bit more--big data was just starting to take its place among the industry's most-used buzz terms. Today everyone talks about it as a potentially powerful piece of enterprise security. But there are still plenty of practitioners struggling to get the concept, much as they struggled to figure out cloud security a few years ago.
Bill Brenner | 28 Jan | Read more
BYOD is a trend few will be able to escape, nor should they try. But it's no easy task.
Bill Brenner | 28 Sep | Read more
Years after it was hailed as the next big thing, federated identity management hasn't been widely adopted because both sides don't benefit equally and liability remains a concern.
Bill Brenner | 21 Sep | Read more
A photographic review of the recent Black Hat and Defcon security conferences in Las Vegas.
Bill Brenner | 21 Aug | Read more
CSO takes a long, last look at highlights from the most recent Black Hat, BSidesLV and Defcon gatherings in Las Vegas.
Bill Brenner | 08 Aug | Read more
A look at 10 of the more notorious acts of hacktivism by Anonymous and LulzSec
Bill Brenner | 29 Jun | Read more
In an interview with CSO, Black Hat General Manager Trey Ford explains how the annual summer pilgrimage to Las Vegas is no longer for hackers alone
Bill Brenner | 19 Jun | Read more
Data security breaches happen daily in too many places at once to keep count. But what constitutes a huge breach versus a small one? For some perspective, we take a look at 15 of the biggest incidents in recent memory.
Bill Brenner | 17 Feb | Read more
For a long time, Cisco CEO John Chambers <a href="http://www.csoonline.com/article/689808/cisco-comes-out-swinging-after-cutbacks">played up his vision of the self-defending network</a>. But we haven't heard much about it in more recent years.
Bill Brenner | 07 Dec | Read more
The cyberwar discussion is mired in confusion.
Bill Brenner | 22 Nov | Read more
As we noted in last year's CSO article, "Six ways we gave up our privacy," people are increasingly -- and willingly -- throwing their privacy to the wind, thanks to an addiction to Google apps, GPS devices, the BlackBerry, iPhone and Android, and social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter. Some security experts believe privacy is dead already.
Bill Brenner | 27 Oct | Read more
The threats and challenges you face haven't changed much in the past year, but you're finding a better recipe for protecting your corporate data and networks, according to our eighth annual Global Information Security Survey.
Bill Brenner | 30 Sep | Read more
I took my share of name-calling as a kid. I did my share of name-calling, too. We're taught that nothing good comes of such behavior. I've been thinking a lot about that since writing an article two weeks ago called "Security blunders 'dumber than dog snot'" during the 2010 USENIX Security Symposium.
Bill Brenner | 26 Aug | Read more