Security compliance - Articles - Page 9

Beyond Compliance, Utilities Remain Vulnerable

January 1, 2016

While utility enterprises are taking steps to detect and deter physical security threats, preventing damage and enabling recovery remain significant challenges, according to The State of Physical Grid Security 2015.

5 Steps to Board Buy-In for Cybersecurity Compliance

Joakim Thoren Chad Lomax

October 15, 2015

There was a time when 28 percent of organizations made no presentations to their corporate boards about security, and nearly one in three corporate boards had no involvement in cybersecurity threats.

Ensuring Security and Compliance in a BYOD World

Art Swift

July 13, 2015

IT security is complicated enough. The widespread adoption of BYOD mobile devices and the overall consumerization of IT promise to complicate security efforts exponentially. Are companies up to the challenge?

Control System Cybersecurity Is Shifting Away from Corporate Thinking

Andrew Ginter

May 26, 2015

For years, corporate network security programs were regarded as the gold standard for industrial control system (ICS) cybersecurity, but this is changing.

Banking on Identity Management for Security and Compliance

Ajay Jain

September 23, 2014

Because of the sensitive nature of the assets and information they maintain for customers, ensuring a highly secure environment is mission-critical for banks and other financial institutions.

Confindential Document Destruction Decreases in 2014

While 86 percent of C-Suite executives are aware of the legal requirements supporting the protection of confidential data, one in five have never performed a security audit

September 1, 2014

The study also found that almost half of the small business owners surveyed conduct no regular audits of their security protocols, and three in 10 have never performed an audit.

Counting Up the Hidden Costs of Security Licensing

John LaFond

June 10, 2014

Licensing may not be as exciting as a game of high-stakes poker, but how you play your security and access control licensing cards can significantly affect the bottom line.

Monitoring Operations from a Distance for Safer Operations

What are other ways that you can communicate use cases and savings to get buy-in from other departments?

Claire Meyer

June 1, 2014

Using cameras can provide a viable alternative, when combined with analytics, to bypass other infrastructure-heavy tools, such as adding fiberoptic cable to perimeter fencing to detect intruders or trenching for driveway sensors or barricades, giving Taminco and the security system an overall smaller footprint.

FAQ: How to Ensure a Smarter PIV Program

Mark Steffler

February 25, 2014

The common identification standard for all federal employees and contractors is the Personal Identity Verification (PIV) smart card, defined by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 201.

How to Keep Up With Governance Risk

Establishing and maintaining a culture across the enterprise that is based on unwavering ethical practices from the boardroom to the lowest level employee is also a key element of effective governance programs.

Lynn Mattice

December 1, 2013

One of the most important topics currently on boardroom agendas focuses on governance. Ensuring that the enterprise understands and complies with laws, regulations, policies and procedures is no longer simply enough.