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Trouble for Credit Unions, Troubled by Telecommuters

Three items this evening: RSA's latest Global Online Fraud Report found 186 financial institutions were the subject of online fraud attacks during December, an increase from last month, but a sizeable decrease from December 2006. One surprise: a big upswing...

Is a 7-Day Disaster Plan Enough?

A new Gartner study of nearly 360 IT risk professionals finds 60 percent plan for a seven-day outage, rather than 30 days or more as "more mature" diaster recovery plans do. Gartner Research Vice President Roberta Witty calls this "a...

Deloitte: IT Vendors Are 'Treading Water' on Security

Are your IT vendors protecting your customer data? A new survey from Deloitte raises plenty of stomach-churning questions. Almost half--49 percent--of the over 100 companies surveyed in their 2007 Technology, Media & Telecommunications Security Survey say they are "falling behind...

Compliance: 2008 Predictions

The IT Compliance Institute's research director, Cass Brewer, has begun issuing her predictions for IT and compliance in 2008. Some highlights from her first article:...

Which Credit Cards Are Most Secure?

Which card issuers have the best fraud protection? Javelin Research has studied the security practices of 25 of the largest card-issuing financial institutions and retailers in the country and has come up with a series of top 5 lists for...

Peeping IT Pros

In April, at the Infosecurity Europe exhibition in London, Cyber-Ark Software polled 200 IT security professionals about whether IT employees peeked at personal information collected by the company. The results are ugly:...

Security: Unprepared and Unresponsive

It's depressing to read yet another study that finds companies are failing to take obvious security steps. But here goes: "The Business Impact of Data Breach," a survey of 702 information security professionals released today by Scott and Scott LLP...