McAfee CPO Michelle Dennedy and Intel CISO Malcolm Harkins work for the same company, but in some ways they are worlds apart. How must privacy and security leaders bridge gaps to face challenges ahead?

What are the key skills and tools forensics pros use in probing a data breach? What can we learn from recent breaches? Rob Lee of SANS Institute walks us through a typical forensics investigation.

As missiles and bombs do real damage in Israel and Gaza, a veteran Israeli cybersecurity expert, Amichai Shulman, downplays the significance of the assaults waged against Israeli websites, contending any damage has been minimal.

Cloud-based botnets and mobile malware are two of 2013's top cyberthreats. What other threats make the list? Georgia Tech's Paul Royal tells how security pros and organizations can prepare.

To know how best to respond to IT and communications failures, incident response pros first must collect information on such incidents, says Marnix Dekker, who co-authored a new report for ENISA.

One of the biggest IT security challenges enterprises will face in the coming years will be assuring the integrity of the computer products they purchase, says Gartner Fellow Neil MacDonald.

Distributed-denial-of-service attacks on U.S. banking institutions will continue, says Akamai's Mike Smith. And he believes the attackers aren't out just to embarrass the banks, but to commit fraud.

The big breaches make the headlines, but the smaller attacks on merchants are the ones that ultimately benefit the fraudsters and hurt banking institutions most, says Wade Baker of Verizon.

A group of highly respected IT security thought leaders is calling on the Obama administration to exercise existing powers to strengthen the processes the federal government employs to secure its information systems.

Employing cloud computing services could help organizations defend against the type of distributed denial of service attacks that have temporarily crippled the online service of major American banks, says NIST's Matthew Scholl.