As the U.S. completes its payments migration to the EMV chip, merchants and card issuers should be bracing for an uptick in card-not-present fraud, says Carol Alexander, head of payment security at software provider CA Technologies.

As organizations move toward storing and processing more data on the public cloud, security needs be automated and based on sound policies to mitigate growing threats, says HyTrust President Eric Chiu.

Organizations are moving to security solutions that protect applications and data without software agents, code changes or network devices, say Waratek's Anand Chavan and Michael Adams.

A class-action suit filed by U.S. banks and credit unions that's pending against Target could prove fruitful for the banks and credit unions, says attorney Chris Pierson, chief security officer at invoicing and payments provider Viewpost.

Mark Clancy, CEO of Soltra, which provides an automated information sharing platform, says banks and credit unions that don't share threat intelligence will never advance their information risk management practices.

Attitudes about cyberthreat information sharing, as well as attack attribution, have dramatically changed in the last 18 months, says the FS-ISAC's Bill Nelson, a featured speaker at RSA Conference 2015.

The PCI Council has just released PCI DSS 3.1, which calls for mothballing the SSL encryption protocol. What do security leaders need to know about the revised standard? Troy Leach of the council offers insights.

Healthcare organizations need to take several key steps to protect their environments from the type of cyber-attacks that recently affected Anthem Inc. and Premera Blue Cross, says security expert Mac McMillan of CynergisTek.

With India facing a major staffing deficit in cybersecurity, the National Security Database is redoubling its efforts to organize a credible workforce. Director Rajshekhar Murthy shares these initiatives.

Although recent hacking incidents in the healthcare sector have targeted large insurers, business associates, self-insured companies and even smaller hospitals should be bracing for cyber-attacks, says Daniel Berger, CEO of the consultancy Redspin.