To quote Shakespeare, “What’s in a name?”

With acceptance of mobile and other new forms of payments expected to double in the next two years, a new global study shows a critical need for organizations to improve their payment data security practices.
 

Nearly a quarter of companies (24.6%) say they would be willing to pay hackers a ransom to prevent a cyberattack, a new survey finds.
 

As a large global technology company whose products such as the Graphical Processing Unit (GPU) appear inside a wide array of other products, NVIDIA may just be “the biggest company you’ve never heard of,” says Wesley Bull, NVIDIA’s Chief Facility Security Officer (CFSO) and Head of Global Security Risk Management, Investigations and Protective Services.

Placed within the Identify function of the NIST Cybersecurity Framework is a category called Risk Assessment.

The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) announced the appointment of Stephen Scharf to the newly-created position of CSO.

Terrorism, workplace violence, and cyber security are among the 200+ security topics to be covered at the ASIS International 61st Annual Seminar and Exhibits in September. 

Neiman Marcus Group Inc. has named Sarah Hendrickson as its first chief information security officer.

The Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) not only protects IT systems with special hardware, software and secure business processes, but he or she also creates, implements and communicates the organization’s digital information security policies and procedures.

The University of Pennsylvania’s Information Systems and Computing has debuted a new data center with additional high-tech security systems.