Should You be Worried about Hacktivism?

by Geoff Webb, director of Product Marketing at Credant Technologies Hacktivism is hardly a novel concept but there continues to be a vocal debate over what hackers are after and why they pursue specific targets. Should organizations worry in an enterprise-wide holistic sense about how to counter hacktivism or instead focus on a single set…

The 3 Major Challenges Facing Your CISO

by Michael Rushinsky of Sallie Mae What are the highest security risks and threats that are coming down the pike facing all market verticals and why? How do CISOs effectively and efficiently manage the ever-evolving information security risk landscape and adequately mitigate that which we cannot control? As I and several other information security executives…

3 Whitelisting Apps to Balance Liberty and Security

Many senior IT staff believe that if they could only protect users from themselves then everyone would be a lot safer and IT processes would be more efficient. Imagine never having to allocate resources to fix a workstation that a user screwed up by downloading free Internet games that were really key loggers. It’s hard…