THE MAGAZINE

Are businesses and government keeping pace with identity thieves?

CISOs are increasingly measuring IT performance to demonstrate the results in concrete terms in accordance with other business metrics.

Beware of the coming scareware onslaught.

A growing number of Web dangers and threats targeting Microsoft’s Windows Vista operating system are listed in McAfee Avert Labs’ Top 10 Security Threats for 2008.

Companies need to teach its employees password protection practices to avoid sensitive data leaks.

Spyware beat out viruses, worms, and browser-embedded attacks when 1,070 companies were asked to rank their biggest IT security concern in 2007.

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The percentage of respondents who said they had changed their online behavior as a consequence of fear of identity theft, according to a survey of British adults by the software and IT management company CA.

A growing number of business organizations are hiring firms to scour the Web to target and shut down threats where they originate.

The University of Georgia's Office of Information Security outlines the state-by-state notification laws organizations must adhere to when they lose personal information.

Europe's stolen car industry—a network of thieves, mechanics, document forgers, and car dealers—now targets luxury vehicles.

Despite billions spent to curtail it, retailers' losses due to shoplifting, fraud, and administrative errors continue to mount.

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The number of foreign companies inspected in 2007 by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), out of the 3,249 that imported drugs into the United States. The FDA hopes to inspect 50 companies next year, an inadequate number according to the GAO.

While formally abolished in most countries, slavery has crept into the global supply chain.

The IT security team for a large healthcare system needed a solution that would streamline access rights and meet privacy regulations.

There are few times in life when proper communication is more critical to an organization than during a crisis. Crisis Communications explains how crisis survival is possible through exhaustive planning, training, rehearsal, and hard work.

To properly weave together the topics of science, technology, and law under the rubric of national security is a tall order. This text does so perfectly.

This updated and expanded 2007 edition provides an incredibly comprehensive insight into the world of encryption and wiretaps, its political machinations, legal aspects, technologies, vulnerabilities, costs, limitations, and near-ubiquity.

How does the ancient Chinese strategist's wisdom apply  to the job of the professional security manager today?

The personal history of a CIA polygraph examiner during the height of the Cold War.

A helpful text for security professionals in need of  guidance when creating and maintaining business continuity plans.