THE MAGAZINE

Security advances show how innovators rise to the challenge of addressing new threats.

Learn how to remove malware from a Microsoft computer security specialist.

Ninety-four percent of government chief information security officers (CISO) do not consider telecommuting to be a security threat.

The average enterprise is spending five percent of the IT budget on security in 2007. This rises to 12 percent if disaster recovery spending is included.

One in five U.S. Web surfers have fallen victim to an online scam. Men, though claiming to be more knowledgeable about online fraud, are more likely than women to be victimized, reports a Microsoft-commissioned survey.

When evaluating their data security programs, companies must consider the safety of outsourced information.

Can someone hack into your computer or install spyware through your browser? Scanit's online tool can help you find out.

Corporate boards are using  the once dubbed "virtual deal rooms" as a secure information repository and communications channel.

If you missed the annual ASIS event in Las Vegas, check out the best of the show floor here.

U.S. companies must be cautious in dealing with foreign militia groups as the government cracks down on payment schemes.

Only collective action will stem the spread of future pandemics, says the World Health Organization.

Before contract employees can enter the U.S. Coast Guard headquarters, they must be fingerprinted and pass a rigorous screening process.

This work offers a compendium of U.S. government guidelines and tools for working in critical infrastructure protection.

For security to succeed, it must incorporate not just guards, guns, and gates, but other elements, in particular technology. In addition, all the factors must work together, without focus on individual parts at the expense of the whole. Electronic Security Systems: A Manager’s Guide to Evaluating and Selecting System Solutions fills that need, detailing all of the various components of a successful security system.

Authors Nigel Iyer and Martin Samociuk avoid philosophical arguments on business theories regarding corporate fraud and corruption to provide practical and workable solutions for prevention and detection programs.

In recent months I had to read numerous books on security integration and convergence as background study for a series of work projects. All of them now collect dust on my office bookshelf, except one: Integrated Security Systems Design, which I now carry in my briefcase, its pages crammed with yellow sticky notes for quick reference.

Meet A. Q. Khan, the world's most notorious nuclear proliferator.

As hate and terror organizations become more complex, investigators must collect intelligence and properly analyze it to keep pace. This book offers excellent insight into the process that professionals could apply in all investigative areas.