CSO's 2015 Compass Award winners
Each year, the CSO Compass Awards honor individuals who demonstrate excellence, achievement and leadership in security and drive business value.
Each year, the CSO Compass Awards honor individuals who demonstrate excellence, achievement and leadership in security and drive business value.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation is the digital world's top watchdog when it comes to privacy and free expression.
Maria Korolov | 16 Jul | Read more
Packing the suitcases and setting off on vacation doesn't necessarily mean that IT executives are able to completely disconnect while away from work, but they are enjoying more downtime. Though they still feel the need to check in at least once a day, more executives say that their staff are well equipped to deal with critical situations.
Kacy Zurkus | 23 Jun | Read more
A lot has changed since the early years, when enterprises first began embracing the CISO position. Back then, the CISO role was primarily a technical one: control user access, secure the databases, find and patch vulnerabilities, keep the malware out, and eventually to help build secure websites and eCommerce platforms. In those days, most of the highly proprietary data resided within the local area network, the data center, or within PCs and notebooks.
George V. Hulme | 02 Jun | Read more
Are you the Dr. No of your company, always with security-related reasons for stopping or slowing down projects?
Maria Korolov | 02 Apr | Read more
The IT skills gap isn't as bad as you think -- it's worse, much worse. Especially in the area of cybersecurity, that skills gap is a major threat to your business.
Sharon Florentine | 19 Mar | Read more
If you've got a "C" at the beginning of your professional title, you're at the top, or pretty close to it.
Taylor Armerding | 11 Mar | Read more
One of the main topics at this year's CSO50 conference is how security departments could reinvent themselves as business enablers.
Maria Korolov | 26 Feb | Read more
It sure feels like the bad guys are winning.
Taylor Armerding | 04 Sep | Read more
Don't expect credit card security – or lack of it – to be magically transformed when the new year dawns on Jan. 1, 2015, the deadline for compliance with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) 3.0.
Taylor Armerding | 22 Aug | Read more
The problem with Security Awareness programs is that it is hard to prove their successes. As with all security countermeasures, success is usually that nothing happens. Ideally, success also means that there is a report of the attempted attack, however that is rarely the case. With technical countermeasures however, logs are usually maintained that allow people to point to all of the prevented attacks.
Ira Winkler, Samantha Manke | 26 Jun | Read more
If we're lucky, We'll all have a chance once in our careers to take a risk and use our skills and experience to do something we truly love. Sometimes the career risk is low, but sometimes it's truly a leap of faith--one that offers potentially big rewards as well as the risk of major setbacks.
George V. Hulme | 29 May | Read more
The good news is that security budgets are rising broadly. The bad news? So are successful attacks. Perhaps that's why security budgets averaging $4.3 million this year represent a gain of 51% over the previous year – and that figure is nearly double the $2.2 million spent in 2010 – all according to our most recent Global Information Security Survey, conducted by PricewaterhouseCoopers.
George V. Hulme | 13 May | Read more
Tony Sager has not only witnessed the revolutionary change in cybersecurity over the past several decades – he has lived it, through several decades with the National Security Agency (NSA).
Taylor Armerding | 02 May | Read more
To be as competitive as possible more organizations today are creating more agile development and operations teams who are collaborating more closely together than before -- and moving more applications and more application updates than ever before as a result. Some are moving many dozens of updates and infrastructure changes a day.
George V. Hulme | 26 Apr | Read more