As Congress and the White House look for ways to cut the federal budget, one area that could prove dicey is IT security, contends Department of Homeland Security's Philip Reitinger.

A consortium of five leading healthcare organizations hopes to demonstrate the secure national exchange of health information, says James Walker, M.D. of Geisinger Health System.

ID security expert Tim Rohrbaugh on phishing trends in light of Epsilon breach.

This week's top news and views: Federal shutdown's impact on IT security, zero percent unemployment for IT security analysts, 'tricked' RSA worker opened backdoor to advanced persistent threat attack and DHS's top infosec executive's quest for a safer Internet. And don't miss our week-in-review podcast by Executive Editor Eric Chabrow.

Experts say banks and retailers are doing all they can to control concerns in the aftermath of the Epsilon e-mail breach, and a well-crafted e-mail fooled an RSA employee into opening a phish that led to a sophisticated attack on the company's information systems.

Experts say banks and retailers are doing all they can to control concerns in the aftermath of the Epsilon e-mail breach, and a well-crafted e-mail fooled an RSA employee into opening a phish that led to a sophisticated attack on the company's information systems.

This week's top news and views: Health Net Breach Tops Federal List; Beefing Up Health IT Strategic Plan; Open Source HIE Initiative Described.

Philip Reitinger, the top cybersecurity official in the Department of Homeland Security, is on a mission to help create a new, secure computing ecosystem on the Internet.

David Riley, president of the new Alembic Foundation, explains how the organization is promoting the use of open source software based on the Nationwide Health Information Network standards.

When it comes to e-marketing and the reliance on third parties such as Epsilon, Nicolas Christin of Carnegie Mellon University says banks and merchants should "come clean" about the information they share with outside entities.