January's top news and views: top 10 government IT security influencers for 2011, state battles data leakage, giving non-IT managers ownership of IT risk and surveying government IT security practitioners.
Employment Screen Resources' Lester Rosen says there's no hotter trend in background screening than social media. But just as social networks can be used to screen applicants, they also can be abused.
This week's top news and views: Parsing the definition of cyberwar, taking the pulse of government IT security and addressing ways to deploy secure cloud computing services.
When a database breach occurs, consumer notification continues to be a public problem, and it's time for the federal government to step in, says Linda Foley, co-founder of the non-profit Identity Theft Resource Center.
This week's top news and views: IT employment ends 2010 near a two-year high; IT security jobs are on the rise in 2011; and giving non-IT executives the responsibility for IT risk.
Most industries say PCI is improving payment card security, but driving consumer and employee awareness about vulnerabilities remains a challenge.
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