Info Risk Today Podcast

The recent cyber-attack on health insurer Anthem Inc. is a "call to action" for the healthcare sector to adopt a much more sophisticated approach to risk management, says security expert Lisa Gallagher of HIMSS.

There is no such thing as 100 percent security, so what does a truly successful security program look like? Mike Gentile of Auxilio describes the key elements of a formal program and how best to deploy them.

As a result of the explosive growth in worldwide use of smart phones, mobile malware will play a much bigger role in fraud this year, predicts Daniel Cohen, a threat researcher for RSA, which just released its 2014 Cybercrime Roundup report.

Target is the high-profile example, but many organizations have been breached through third-party vulnerabilities. Where are the security gaps, and how can they be filled. BitSight's Stephen Boyer offers insight.

Email fraud has existed since the advent of email. But the schemes are evolving and impacting organizations' bottom lines. Robert Holmes of Return Path offers new strategies to defeat fraud attempts.

Visa executive Kimberly Lawrence contends that the ongoing U.S. migration to EMV is progressing more rapidly than in other markets that have made the transition, requiring outside-the-box rules for debit transactions and cardholder verification.

Recognizing the behavior of an intruder, rather than relying on digital signatures, will prove to be a better way to prevent hackers from pilfering data and creating havoc in IT systems, says Radware CEO Roy Zisapel.

IBM Trusteer malware researcher Ori Bach says financial fraud attacks coming out of Brazil are having a global impact, and he offers insights and lessons for banking institutions throughout the world.

Data breaches are inevitable, hence it's up to executives to ensure their enterprise is secured, without trying to encrypt everything, warns Prakash Panjwani, president and chief executive officer of SafeNet.

The Federal Reserve's just-released plan for faster payments and technology standardization, while applicable to ACH and wire transactions, won't easily translate for card payments, says Troy Leach of the PCI Security Standards Council.