This week is National Cyber Security Week in Australia, and annual Government initiative that is held in partnership with industry, community and consumer organisations and all levels of government. The aim of awareness week is to help Australians using...

According to a recent IBM Tech Trends report , both educators and students view security as extremely important. In fact, 56 percent of students and 44 percent of educators ranked it as one of the top three issues the IT industry will face over the next...

From management literature (Tushman & O'Reilly), the congruence-based problem solving is a method to quickly and accurately identify the root cause of performance or opportunity gaps. In the context of security architecture, the congruence model...

Sometimes time and space conspire to create an opportunity that you weren't expecting. That was the case for me last week. Near where I live, the University of Rhode Island (URI) hosted their third Cybersecurity Symposium on education and workforce...

Presentations about the information security industry can be motivating or they can be boring, but one emotion they should not elicit is fear. We do not need one more talking head lecturing us through a stern look about the dire state of security.

NFC or Near Field Communication is a standard that defines the exchange of data between two devices in close proximity. For NFC enabled smartphones, that means consumers can replace their credit and debit cards with an electronic wallet. Besides payment...

This blog was originally posted on IBM.com. In a world of increasing and varying information security threats , academic initiatives focused on cybersecurity are proliferating - yet, there is still the danger of falling short in addressing the long...

In the previous post we discussed some of the fundamental challenges of securing a public cloud environment, which is analogous to “your data on my hard drive.” This computing model introduces some tremendous opportunities to do more with...

In 2012, there were 1,502 documented incidents resulting in loss of personally identifiable information, almost a 40% increase over the previous year’s 1,088 event count. In the last three years, 21 million patients in the United States have had...

Sometimes it seems that everything in the IT world is going virtual, moving to the cloud. Poof! That server farm you used to maintain so diligently has suddenly vaporized — cloud-like, as it were — out of sight, out of mind. Now you can let...

Achieving the basics of a solid security practice is really hard work. The challenge of implementing a sound and impenetrable defense ranks right up there with other highly visible business achievements. There are many common threads and themes found...

The IBM X-Force 2012 Annual Trend and Risk Report reports that exploitation of web services has seen a 14% increase in 2012 over the previous year, mainly attributed to SQL injection and cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.

The recent DDoS attacks against Spamhaus punctuated the conclusion in the IBM X-Force 2012 Annual Trend and Risk Report that DDoS attacks have increased in sophistication. Last year’s attacks on financial institutions, which continue even now, employed...

The two weeks of the year, where security experts from around the world descend upon the United States, have come and gone as quickly as $100 on a single deck black jack table in Fremont Street. I have been attending RSA and Pulse for many consecutive...

It is always exciting to be able to announce the next version of the IBM X-Force® Trend & Risk report and today we are announcing the full year 2012 findings of key highlights that were researched by IBM X-Force. One of the differentiators that...

The payment landscape is evolving and there is a lot of technology out there jockeying to replace the traditional magnetic stripe credit cards.

The world has gone mobile. If there was any remaining doubt, it became readily apparent as CIOs, CISOs, and other sundry executives stepped onto the vast center stage at the IBM Pulse Conference, and touted their latest prowess in the mobile platform...

Recent tech news trumpets the advancement of quantum cryptography (QC) to secure the Smart Grid. I watched the Academy Awards this year (not normal) and found a whole bunch of Bond (James Bond) running through it, including performances of Goldfinger...

February has been an interesting month for the Institute on a number of fronts. In Europe, we ran our first Board of Advisors meeting for a number of CISOs.

It was nearly 1.8 million years ago when man’s cognitive development reached a pivotal milestone in that he could coordinate and shape complex information. For the first time, man demonstrated his spatial concept skills and created tools of his...

The mobile security drumbeat continues from last week's announcement regarding IBM MobileFirst. In a blog post on ReadWriteMobile, I share how organizations can regain control of all mobile-related activities. Also included in this blog is an infographic...

IBM InfoSphere Optim Data Privacy Solution was recently named a leader in the first-ever Gartner Magic Quadrant for Data Masking Technology and received the top rankings compared to competitors in the ability to execute and completeness of vision categories...

From time to time, I attend and participate in security conferences, which I find of value. Many times it is the ‘hallway track’ that provides the benefit. However, this past week I was able to not only attend a summit, but to moderate one...

Last week, I shared Healthcare and Building a Security Survivability Program Part 1. In part 1, I share with you three associated suggestions to build a new information security regimen—a new year’s resolution, if you will. Neither the problem...

I recently presented the topic of “The Big Data Challenge and Actionable Analytics” to the Credit Risk and Operational Risk Conference held in Barcelona in early February. The key message was how it can enable security.