By 2020 the world is expected to generate 50 times the amount of information and 75 times the number of "information containers" while IT staff to manage it will grow less than 1.5 times.
When I was growing up in New Jersey, if someone hit you in the nose and took your lunch money, well, you didn’t eat lunch that day. In the cyber world the punches are bigger, the dollars are tremendous and you don’t eat lunch because once your intellectual and physical property is gone, so are the jobs and paychecks that IP created.
The Government Accountability Office is calling on the Food and Drug Administration to reevaluate how they test electronic medical devices, especially regarding the risk of intentional attacks.
The new Office of Energy Infrastructure Security will provide leadership, expertise and assistance to the Commission to help identify solutions to potential cyber-risks.
A recent Ponemon institute survey reported that while the cost for data breaches is trending downward, this does not apply to stolen healthcare information.
Thirty-one percent of data breaches are caused by simple loss or theft, a new Forrester study reports, and another 27 percent of incidents are caused by unwitting misuse of data by an employee.
New research from Dell SecureWorks finds that cyber espionage firms, often originating in China, are targeting critical infrastructure organizations, such as oil companies, in many different countries.
A new study shows that while a majority of security executives are confident about their policies and protocols, 13 percent of organizations suffered 50 or more security incidents last year.
