Monday, April 27, 2009 11:42 AM/EST
By Ericka Chickowski Some of the better track sessions at this year's RSA dealt with the tricky topic of secure application development. Quite simply, crummy code is the root of many security evils, and to root out bad coding practices...
Monday, April 27, 2009 11:40 AM/EST
by Ericka Chickowski Last week at RSA I participated in a roundtable discussion of the unique challenges small to medium sized organizations face in implementing sound security practices. I sat down with Jon Oltsik, Senior Analyst for Information Security at...
Friday, April 24, 2009 10:53 AM/EST
by Ericka Chickowski Last week, the White House's acting senior director of cyberspace, Melissa Hathaway, spoke in front of a packed audience at the RSA conference in San Francisco, presumably to fill the security community in on the latest news...
Wednesday, April 22, 2009 11:53 AM/EST
by Ericka Chickowski I'm scurrying around Moscone Center at RSA, looking to meet with vendors and end users while still making time to squeeze in some track sessions and to get a pulse on the biggest security issues IT executives...
Wednesday, April 08, 2009 10:51 AM/EST
Here's a scary story: "Cyberspies have penetrated the U.S. electrical grid and left behind software programs that could be used to disrupt the system, according to current and former national-security officials." China and Russia are named in the article. More:...
Thursday, February 05, 2009 3:14 PM/EST
Ericka Chickowski reports: Over the past two days I've been attending sessions at the Security Practitioners Conference, which is run as a component of The Open Group Conference in San Diego. Much of the content yesterday focused on security in...
Wednesday, February 04, 2009 1:41 PM/EST
Corporate IT security is always a top priority for IT managers, but what happens when your own workers (or former workers) decide to attack you?
Monday, February 02, 2009 2:35 PM/EST
Guest Blogger: Don Sears Funny to imagine the PR people for both Google and Michael Phelps simultaneously running around trying to put out media fires this weekend and today. But it's happened. Somehow I imagine Google's not gracing the cover...
Monday, January 26, 2009 9:15 AM/EST
It's not exactly the greatest job market for IT pros, but one insider has some advice.
Tuesday, January 06, 2009 11:15 AM/EST
No one doubts that the Web helps businesses make big gains in productivity, but security pros have always worried about the security threats it brings. And now new numbers show just how threatening it can be.
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