This week, the industry celebrates one of the most influential and explosive technologies influencing the world of information systems: Virtualization. At VMWorld 2010, the focus on virtualization across the enterprise and cloud computing highlights some of the most interesting and impactful technologies that our industry is utilizing. We have had...

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This week's Speaking of Security podcast features an interesting discussion with Ira Winkler, a well-known expert on internet security and information-related crime investigation.

Talking with customers every day, I hear constant concerns about lack of visibility into (and control over) security and compliance in the virtual infrastructure, lack of guidance and orchestration tools and the high cost and difficulty of meeting audits and achieving compliance.

In my last post, I discussed the trend of automated credit card stores proliferating in the fraudster underground. In addition to the reasons I listed...

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This week's Speaking of Security podcast discusses the upcoming RSA Archer eGRC Road Show. We also debut the Speaking of Security Newswire, featuring the latest security and technology headlines.

There's an important Messaging Convention around online consumer safety and security that wrapped up this month, put on by the National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA), Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) and member organizations including RSA around communicating the central role of people in protecting themselves and, frankly...

The motivations, instincts and needs of Nation States, regardless of rhetoric, are largely the same for Akkadia, Sumeria, Rome and ancient Judea as they are for the modern USA, China or European state. The theaters in which nations can act and the tools and trade-offs among tactics are very different, and this has come to light recently with some activity and demands around features and requests for mobile endpoints.

This week, Verizon released their 2010 Data Breach Investigations Report. The report is a treasure trove of statistics that illuminate all facets of what’s happening in recent compromises. I wanted to focus on the insight around the current state of payment card data breaches, which continue to make up a majority of the breaches (54%) that Verizon’s RISK team investigates and writes about.