Sarah D. Scalet is a senior editor for CSO magazine, a contributor to CIO magazine and a noted expert on information security.
How to Protect Consumer Data Privacy: A Proposal
CSO conducted an online discussion forum among legal and security experts, with some consumers weighing in, and came up with a proposal for a national data breach privacy law.
Read More »Federal Agencies Lag on Secure ID Card Mandate
The number of HSPD-12-compliant smart cards issued by the federal government remains minuscule.
Read More »Report Card on Government's Compliance With Secure ID Mandate
The president called on all federal agencies to issue secure, smart ID cards to federal workers and contractors. So far, few of the cards have been issued, according to an analysis of published data.
Read More »When State Street acquired a Deutsche Bank company, it had to decide whether to keep or retire more than 900 inherited applications. The guiding force that helped it do that was governance.
Read More »How to Conduct a Vulnerability Assessment
Los Alamos National Laboratory's Roger Johnston talks about how aliens, Elvis impersonators and your worst security users can help you find and fix security problems.
Read More »What Banks Tell Online Customers About Their Security
Six months after the FFIEC's rules for strong authentication took effect, Security Editor Sarah D. Scalet tests what the country's three biggest banks tell customers about their online security practices. It's not very encouraging.
Read More »Introducing AT&T, Your Internet Security Company
AT&T and other telcos want to clean up the Internet from the vast flows of spam and other junk—and earn a tidy profit. How their plans move forward will have a profound impact on their bottom lines and the idea of net neutrality.
Read More »Radio-Frequency ID (RFID) as an Answer to Pharmaceutical Drug Counterfeiting
Five myths about how Radio-Frequency ID (RFID) technology will stop counterfeit drugs.
Read More »Product Testing, Contract Process Delay Government Smart Cards
HSPD-12, an IT-centric project to create standard ID cards for federal facilities is proceeding, slowly.
Read More »Drugs, RFID and the Legislative Tangle
While the federal government's push to trace the movement of drugs has been slowed, several states have stepped in with rules of their own.
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Service Level Management Best Practices Life Cycle Overview - Improve Service Levels
Best practices for Service Level Management (SLM) is a process for consistently meeting customer requirements and delivering on IT's promises. See the steps required to ensure high-quality SLM.
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Keeping Your Members Safe from Online Scams and Predators
In order to keep fraudsters out, romance sites must deploy effective solutions that look at information independent of what is supplied by users. A device fingerprinting solution such as iovation ReputationManager™ provides unique insight into the computers being used to create multiple accounts and exposes hidden device-account relationships that identity-based fraud solutions often miss.
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