Government Information Security Podcast

Before entering a contract with a cloud computing company, organizations should consider three critical issues, says Feisal Nanji, executive director at the security consulting firm Techumen.

Scott Laliberte, managing director of Protiviti, wrote the book on penetration testing, and he has strong feelings about what organizations are doing right and wrong when assessing their information security risks today.

Oregon Chief Information Security Officer Theresa Masse finds herself at the center of a state initiative to simplify compliance by agencies with Internal Revenue Service rules to safeguard taxpayer data.

There are significant hard and soft benefits for government agencies to gain by investing now in solutions built around Trustable Identities, says Mike Ozburn, principal of Booz Allen Hamilton.

It's the new conventional wisdom: all computer networks will be attacked.

For Phyllis Schneck, that means organizations must be resilient, keeping computers functioning even when they're under assault.

Performing digital forensics in the cloud isn't necessarily a new discipline, says Rob Lee of SANS Institute. But the task definitely requires a whole new mindset and some new skills from investigators.

It is no longer enough for information security professionals to secure critical information. They also need to be asking about the legitimacy of where this information comes from, says John Colley, managing director of (ISC)2 in EMEA.

Dickie George of the National Security Agency has one word to describe the state of information security education today: "Spotty." And this state must improve if we hope to fill all the growing demand for security pros.

NIST's Ron Ross points out that its seminal security control guidance, Special Publication 800-53, contains only one privacy control, requiring agencies to conduct a privacy impact assessment. That will change by year's end.

You know your organization's social media policy is a good one when it starts sounding less like a checklist and more like common sense, says Sherrie Madia, social media expert and author.