BYOD has brought sweeping changes to the enterprise over the last several years. Nowhere is this more apparent than sitting at the head of IT Security in the role of CISO. Having served in this role at companies like Disney, TiVo and Salesforce during this pivotal time, I can say that it’s an interesting seat to have.
Discussions of mobile security typically revolve around the vulnerability of smartphones, tablets and the data they contain to loss and theft. Yet CIOs, CISOs and IT directors need to be equally concerned about the challenges of maintaining data security during everyday use of both corporate-issued and BYOD devices.
Close to 1.5 percent of the Internet’s top websites track users without their knowledge or consent, even when visitors enable their browser’s Do Not Track options, according to a research team in Europe.
A privacy rights group plans to ask the Supreme Court to stop the NSA phone surveillance program that collects the telephone records of millions of Americans.
Use of facial recognition technology on popular social networking site Facebook, especially in photo tagging, has raised privacy concerns in Germany, where users must be allowed to give their explicit consent for such potentially privacy-encroaching applications.
Siding with security needs over privacy rights, the Supreme Court ruled today that jailers may subject people arrested for minor offenses to invasive strip searches.
It was, in its time, a soothing miracle cure or a humiliating school day when I smelled like an over mentholated pine forest. But it’s also an example of a domino falling, which can lead to surprising places, both good and bad. There are domino effect examples throughout the security field, too.
The University of Massachusetts-Amherst has been ordered stop all unnecessary recordings in the campus’s new police station following complaints from the officers themselves.
