Amy McHugh, a former FDIC IT examination analyst, says banking regulators will soon scrutinize C-level executives and boards of directors to gauge their cybersecurity awareness in the wake of the FFIEC's pilot cyber-risk assessment program.

Emerging Web-enabled health technologies, ranging from the upcoming Apple Watch to a Google "pill" that could potentially detect cancer in patients' bodies, pose troubling new privacy risks, says privacy advocate Deborah Peel, M.D.

An important lesson from the breach of a White House unclassified network is that organizations should invest in intrusion detection tools, not just perimeter defenses, SANS's Johannes Ullrich says.

Most citizens rightly don't trust the Internet as a voting booth. But the Atlantic Council's Jason Healey says that could change, not because of better security, but because the digital generation might demand it as they age.

Many issuers of chip-based credit cards will likely allow U.S. consumers to complete transactions with a signature, not a PIN, which will limit the fraud protections offered by EMV cards, says Citizen Financial Group's Tim Webb.

As numerous attacks have demonstrated, two-factor authentication systems are not foolproof, says Ryan Lackey, a principal in the security practice at CloudFlare, who offers insights on how today's authentication systems must evolve.

Visa is working closely with U.S. banking institutions and retailers to enhance payments security and push the migration toward EMV, says the card brand's Eduardo Perez, a featured presenter at ISMG's Fraud Summit New York.

In a wide-ranging interview, Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Tom Carper discusses bipartisan efforts to enact FISMA reform, the impact of payment card breaches and his personal approach to IT security.

In addition to adopting the right IT security standards to mitigate advance persistent threats, organizations need to pick the right people to carry out those standards, says Jon Long, a featured speaker at ISMG's Global APT Defense Summit on Oct. 22.

More healthcare entities might consider implementing NIST's cybersecurity framework if healthcare-specific guidance on putting the framework to use was available, says Lee Kim of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society.