California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, with strong urging from a lobbying alliance, has vetoed a stringent data protection bill that would have made merchants, not banks, responsible for reissuing credit cards and alerting customers following a breach.
Spending on security technology, training, assessments and certification, which accounted for a fifth of IT budgets last year, will eat up an increasingly large part of IT spending, according to a report from the Computing Technology Industry Association (CompTIA).
(CISO). Some companies are further empowering this somewhat new role with expansive powers and responsibilities that range from incident response to IT compliance to customer data privacy. Meanwhile other companies are eliminating the role altogether.
Access control is the order of the day for this issue. All of our reviews focus on aspects of access control and management. This, of course, is a key aspect of enforcing the security of the enterprise. We address the topic with two First Looks and two Group Test reviews.
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