You cannot prove your enterprise has not been hacked, but there are methods to mitigate your risk of an undetected breach.

A recent survey found that password-based authentication is no longer capable of meeting the demands of modern information security, and that 84% of respondents would support eliminating passwords all together.
 

The University of Illinois will lead a new center that will try to help strengthen cybersecurity.

Cyber-attacks are escalating in their frequency and intensity, and pose a growing threat to the business community as well as the national security of countries.

The U.S. House of Representatives Intelligence Committee introduced legslation intended to enhance information sharing between private companies and intelligence agencies about cybersecurity threats.

I recently interviewed Marc Goodman, founder of the Future Crimes Institute and author of the recently published book “Future Crimes: Everything is Connected, Everyone is Vulnerable, and What We Can Do About It.” In his book, Goodman sets forth with great precision the frightening extent to which current and emerging technologies are harming national and corporate security, putting people’s lives at risk, eroding privacy, and even altering our perceptions of reality.

Over the last several years, it has become commonplace for the media to publish information based on electronic materials that have been removed or copied either by organizational insiders and/or external people or groups. The publication of this type of material has impacted individuals, public and private organizations and various government agencies. While it is important for a free society to have the benefits of a free press serving as one of the checks and balances to protect citizens from abusive practices, we may have reached a point where we should re-examine how this is practiced. Are our criminal and civil statues effective on these issues?