Healthcare organizations are becoming a bigger target for cybercriminals because so much more clinical and financial information is now stored in potentially vulnerable information systems, says security expert Mac McMillan.

Fighting fraud tied to synthetic identities requires revamping the credit infrastructure to improve detection of fraudsters' activities, says risk management specialist Richard Parry.

What does "IT security as a business enabler" mean? For a definition, Gartner's Paul Proctor looks to the way IT managers at a European car maker translate security problems into a language a CEO can understand.

CIO John Halamka, M.D., a well-known blogger, says information security accounts for about half of his work at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. He explains why that's the case and discusses a variety of projects, including a test of Google Glass.

A multi-layered approach known as "context-aware security" is the most effective strategy for fighting both insider and external cyberthreats, says Gartner analyst Avivah Litan, who explains how this strategy works.

Consumers around the world aren't overly concerned about Internet security, perhaps because they've experienced fatigue from the oversaturated media coverage of data breaches, Unisys Chief Information Security Officer David Frymier says.

The National Institute of Standards and Technology is developing new cybersecurity standards based on the same principles engineers use to build bridges and jetliners.

Healthcare organizations and their business associates should take a number of crucial steps to prepare for potential breach investigations and HIPAA compliance audits by the Department of Health and Human Services, HIPAA expert Reza Chapman says.

Embedding some information security practitioners within business units could help improve IT security awareness in many enterprises, reducing security risk, says Steve Durbin, global vice president of the Information Security Forum.

Timely analysis of data residing in an organization's information systems is a critical element of IT security, say Haiyan Song and Joe Goldberg of the security firm Splunk.