Security Strategy, Plan, Budget

Hacker groups Anonymous and LulzSec have made a name for themselves by scanning large organizations until they find the one weak system ready to be exploited. You can prevent an attack.

A community college in Texas found a tool that enabled it to fend off viruses while coming into compliance, reports Greg Masters.

The virtual environment is very different from the "physical" data center where networks, servers and applications can be easily secured and monitored.

Several senators today abandoned their support of two highly controversial anti-web piracy bills making their way through Congress.

Visa has issued best practices that detail how retailers, card issuers and processors can upgrade their credit card transaction technology to a chip-based model, so to avoid burdensome complexity, cost and time to market.

Upromise, which helps students save for college, failed to live up to its oath to protect users' security and privacy, and offer encryption.

The proposal is helpful, but still doesn't answer the question: who to call when an attack happens.