GRAND RAPIDS - James Placer CCSE, CCSP, will examine the true cost of a data breach Nov. 16 at the next meeting of The Right Place Program's Fourth Friday networking event. The recent changes in state and federal legislation have pushed the data retention and notification requirements to all companies and individuals with significant punitive
TROY - Under the new leadership of Jennifer Bowden, the Southeast Michigan Information Security Regional Skills Alliance is gearing up with several new initiatives to ensure that Southeast Michigan has a trained workforce in information security. A major component of the MiRSA will now be to examine information security and how it affects the everyday
SAN FRANCISCO, Ca. - If Mac users thought the Trojan discovered last week was a one-off, they'll need to think again. Security firm F-Secure has discovered 32 variants of it, but claims about its powers have been wildly overstated, according to experts. "Looks like the Mac Trojan we posted about last week was not an
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Ca. - Research sponsored by Symantec has found that while 91 percent of IT organizations carry out full testing of their disaster recovery plans, almost half of those tests fail. The "Symantec Disaster Recovery Research 2007" report was based on a survey of 1,088 IT professionals in large organizations, conducted by Dynamic Markets
PALO ALTO, Ca. - To help companies better manage and consolidate key management for encrypted devices deployed in enterprise and mid-sized businesses, Hewlett-Packard announced the availability of the HP StorageWorks Secure Key Manager. Secure Key Manager is a centralized, hardened security appliance that helps data center managers improve privacy compliance and reduce the risk of
WASHINGTON DC - The U.S. government's controversial plan to outfit all Americans with uniform electronic identification cards--officially known as Real ID--may be on its deathbed, opponents of the program charged last week. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has long said that starting as soon as May 2008, and definitely after May 2013, it will
CUPERTINO, Ca. - What a McAfee security expert calls a "nasty" piece of malware, Puper, has hit Apple Macintosh computers with a thud. "This is the first real malware that we have seen in the Mac," said Dave Marcus, security research and communications manager, McAfee Avert Labs. "It is written by the same group that
KALAMAZOO - The Greenleaf Companies have hired Daniel Weston, recently retired Chief of Public Safety from the Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety, as Executive Vice President and Director of Corporate Security. He is expected to begin his new duties on or before December 1st. Greenleaf Trust employs more than 1,000 people, hosts more than 1
SOUTHFIELD ? Tom Heagarty, a CISSP and CISA certificates holder, will discuss successful security monitoring programs in large environments, the November 15 program for Motor City ISSA. Deploying the right security technology in the right places is tricky enough - building the infrastructure to support that technology and get the most out of it is
NEW YORK - RedSky Technologies this week launched E911 Anywhere, a centralized 911 call management service for enterprise organizations with IP telephony systems that will save significant money and precious time when routing 911 calls to emergency responders. E911 Anywhere centralizes the process of tracking the location of all endpoints connected to an IP telephony