Compliance Management

In a world of ever-increasing information, security requirements and regulations, companies must manage a complex compliance environment that has resulted in a multitude of linked processes. The primary driver of all of these requirements and regulation is the mitigation of risk and the threat of a security breach.

The convenience of doing business on the web has embedded itself into consumers everyday routines to the point where the ability to quickly complete a multitude of tasks online has come to be expected.

SC Magazine has relaunched its podcasts as a weekly conversation with the experts on the most pressing IT security topics.

To properly discuss security issues related to multi-function peripheral (MFPs) - devices that copy, print, scan and fax - its helpful to first have some background on the underlying technology in the machines that have raised so much concern as a possible data security risk.

Historically, IT security has been a business cost center. However, with the scope and scale of recent data breaches, including the TJ Maxx fiasco, consumers are becoming very weary of doing business with organizations that dont adequately protect personal and financial information.

Seattle police have charged a former Boeing employee with 16 counts of computer trespass for the alleged theft of 320,000 files, as well as leaking them to a Seattle-area daily newspaper.

By blood-and-guts standards, Cary, N.C. is as safe a suburb as there is in the nation. The 121,000-person bedroom community regularly ranks near the statistical bottom of all the major crime categories, including murders, aggravated assaults and robberies.

The skill set required for the modern IT security professional is constantly changing — the moxie of malware authors, phishers and online scam artists ensures that. Employees working to keep networks and data safe increasingly need another trait they cant learn in a certification course or training session, say consultants and analysts. The IT security pro is now expected to be a great communicator, especially when using metrics and other statistics to explain a corporate IT strategy — and its results and shortcomings, to superiors.