Security

TJX Data Breach: Ignore Cost Lessons and Weep

While monetary costs from a massive data breach are bad enough, the damage to reputation and the resulting loss of business can be considerable. The recent indictment of the TJX hackers underscores how your company may be at risk, explain security e

The Top 10 Celebrity Spammers

Angelina Jolie wants you. Well, not really, but spammers want you to think so. Today's hot spam trend is using celebrity names to get people to open up e-mails and unleash a virus or Trojan attack. Which starlets appear most? We've got the

Testing Service-Oriented Architectures: A Primer for the Real World

Along with the benefits of an interconnected system come spiraling costs if the system runs out of control. When undertaking SOA, testing is a necessary form of risk-management u2014 and Matt Heusser describes how to do it well.

There is More to SOA Security Than Authorization and Authentication

You don't have to make your SOA services impenetrable. You simply have to make them harder to crack than everyone else's. Use port knocking as an added level of security and crackers won't even know you're there.

Technology Nightmare: How to Protect Your Network from the Threat of Rogue IT Employees

Technology Nightmare: How to Protect Your Network from the Threat of Rogue IT Employees

An IT admin for the City of San Francisco holding the network hostage is just the latest high-profile example of the security risk posed by insiders. Learn what steps you can take so it won't happen to your company.

Five Things Kevin Mitnick Has Learned About Computer Security

Legendary former hacker on hacking, being hacked, and companies that turn a blind eye to security

Five Ways IT Can Avoid a Privacy Lawsuit

Violating an informal privacy policy is a no-no, a recent court ruling found. CIOs can take some important lessons about text messaging and privacy away from the case of Quon v. Arch Wireless.

How One Company Used Virtualization to Lower the Cost of Disaster Recovery

Vincent Biddlecombe, CTO of Transplace, explains how his company used virtualization in a four-step disaster recovery plan. The process offers a simple way to recover operations fast and at a relatively lower cost than traditional disaster recovery s

Four Reasons Why Open Source and the Internet Must Play a Role in Medicine

CIO John Halamka explained lessons that hospitals and healthcare can learn from open source initiatives, including why online medical records can ensure a better healthcare community.

Endpoint Security Holes an Open Door for Attackers

A free online scanner reveals that most corporate endpoints fail even basic security tests, according to a Sophos report.