Successfully resuming business operations after a significant business interruption or disaster requires a business continuity plan developed by an influential business executive, experts say. This contrasts with the reality at many organizations, where the IT executive who successfully developed the disaster recovery plan and/or the business continuity plan for IT is tapped for the broader [...]
More than one-third of IT professionals abuse administrative passwords to access confidential data such as colleagues’ salary details or board-meeting minutes, according to a survey.
Data security company Cyber-Ark surveyed more than 400 senior IT professionals in the US and Britain, and found that 35% admitted to snooping, while 74% said they could access information that [...]
At the RSA conference in San Francisco, VP of Trustworthy Computing Scott Charney told the conference attendees that Microsoft was planning new security offerings to ease the management of identity and authentication information. He further added that Microsoft was working on a new server initiative as part of its Geneva Project. This new [...]
Source: PCWorld.com
If anyone has the right to be excited about cloud computing, it’s John Chambers. But on Wednesday Cisco Systems’ Chairman and CEO conceded that the computing industry’s move to sell pay-as-you-go computing cycles available as a service on the Internet was also “a security nightmare.”
Speaking during a keynote address at the annual security confab, [...]