Information security program: how to develop an effective information security risk assessment.(Operational Risk)Information security has become one of the biggest concerns in business today. Mishandling of customer information combined with security breaches can cost companies millions. Over time, the ...
Whitney: When you build a privacy program, look at the culture of the company. What are its values, and how do you link privacy to those values? It’s going to vary from company to company. The values of a company with a business model based on the use or sale of data are going ...
Tanya:As application security professionals, we want to minimize the risk of scary apps and then try to bring everything across the board up to a highersecurity posture. Each organization sets that differently. For an application security program, I would measure that every app receives security ...
Applying Aspect-Oriented Programming to Security Aspect-oriented programming (AOP) is a new programming paradigm that explicitly promotes separation of concerns. In the context of security, this would mean that the main program should not need to encode security information; instead, i... J Viega,...
How to Build a cyber security operation center(SOC) or How to Start SOC needs to mount a competent defense against cyber threats.
5. Make Security Fun and Engaging Let’s face it, data security a dry subject. In order to ensure that employees are willing to show interest and actively participate in your data security program, subjecting them to lengthy and tedious presentations is perhaps not the best way of achieving ...
CISOs and IT leaders play a key role in demystifying what security and compliance represent for the business. At AWS, we made an intentional choice for the security team to report directly to the CEO. The goal was to build security into the structural fabric of how AW...
Another part of the SWI Tools team’s charter is to create quality tools that can be used to support the Security Development Lifecycle throughout Microsoft. Whenever a new set of engineering best practices or recommendations is added to the SDL, the Tools team tries to build a tool that wil...
internet users’ web browsers display it as a green padlock. For e-commerce websites, where payments and sensitive data are being exchanged, it is nearly mandatory to have a valid SSL certificate. Especially if you are an online business owner striving to build and maintain the consumers’ tr...
have already put a cybersecurity program in place can also unpleasantly discover gaps in their efforts, making the entire venture seem moot. One way to effectively get started, as well as to prevent gaps, is to build a good foundation upon which a cybersecurity program can grow a...