Security

Report finds security weaknesses in IRS computer system

Poor controls over computers could allow private information to be leaked from IRS WASHINGTON -- One more tax-season dread: A week before the filing deadline, Treasury watchdogs said Monday that poor ...
Kellogg School of Management

Information Security Incident

For privacy, you can exit at any time. What is an information security incident? Information security incidents are events that give someone access to sensitive information (personally identifiable ...
Healthcare Dive

Insiders pose biggest threat to health information security, report finds

More than half of health industry security incidents are tied to employees within the organization — making healthcare the only industry where insiders are the biggest threat, according to Verizon’s ...
Security

Report: Cyberattacks against SMBs on the rise

Reported incidents of businesses being victimized by cyberattacks have become so numerous in recent years that many C-level executives and rank and file employees have become numb to them. Rarely a ...
Computerworld

Critics question value of federal IT security report card

The U.S. government received an overall C grade on an annual information security report card that was released today. But the report card and the internal security reports on which it’s based face ...
ecommercetimes

Report: Government Agencies Must Step Up Security

The White House push to secure the U.S. digital infrastructure does not exclude IT systems of federal agencies, according to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), which released its Federal ...
Computerworld

Federal agencies due for information security report cards

U.S. Rep. Tom Davis (R-Va.), ranking member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, today is scheduled to release the annual federal computer security report card, which grades the ...
Network World

Shedding some light on information security

MessageGate recently published a report entitled ‘Reshaping Information Security: The Convergence of Content & Security in Corporate Messaging.’ The report focused on understanding the impact that ...
Government Technology

Gov. Perdue Signs Executive Order Strengthening Georgia's Information Technology Security

Gov. Perdue today signed an executive order to protect state data by standardizing information security reporting. "This executive order is a critical part of the larger plan I announced in December ...
Network World

GAO report critical of federal banks’ security

The Government Accountability Office in Washington, D.C., Thursday issued an information security report critical of the Federal Reserve banks’ computer systems and networks that are used in selling ...
Security Systems News

World Security Report: physical security incidents cost companies $1 trillion

IRVINE, Calif.—Large, global companies lost a combined $1 trillion in revenue in 2022 due to physical security incidents, according to the first-ever World Security Report. Economic unrest is expected ...