IT Blog This week, Senior News Writer Bill Brenner talks to security luminary Howard Schmidt about his new book and recaps the week's news headlines.
IT Blog As part of our Security Newsmakers podcast series, Senior News Writer Bill Brenner recently interviewed Howard Schmidt about his latest book "Patrolling Cyberspace: Lessons Learned from a Lifetime in Data Security."In this audio download, Schmidt talks about why he thinks the private sector has a bi...
Security Management, Data Breaches and Identity Theft IT Blog In this interview conducted last month at RSA Conference 2008, security expert, Howard Schmidt says the federal governments goal to reduce its nearly 2,000 domain access points to 50 by Fall 2008 is too aggressive and questions whether the government will reach its goal. Schmidt also explains how...
IT Blog Security luminary Howard Schmidt talks about the federal government's efforts in defending against cyberterrorism, how an unstable economy could affect IT security budgets and whether enough security talent exists to defend critical systems.
IT Answer I just wrote a story on one of the RSA 2005 keynotes. Anyone like to share their opinion on this topic? Frank Abagnale: Catch him if you can http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid14_gci1035900,00.html The former ID thief made famous in a Leonardo DiCaprio movie wants to w...
IT Blog Information Security magazine's Michael Mimoso reports on the Obama cybersecurity announcement. He speaks with security luminary Howard Schmidt, Paul Kocher, chief scientist of Cryptography Research and Unisys CISO Patricia Titus.
federal cybersecurity; security wire weekly IT Blog I am just getting back into the swing of things after returning from our Information Security Decisions conference, which was held in Chicago Monday and Tuesday. I've always liked this conference more than just about any other on the annual schedule (I even attended it before I worked for TechTarget...
IT Blog In this episode of the IT Compliance Advisor, Associate Editor Alexander B. Howard interviews Patricia Titus about the Obama Administrations cybersecurity plan, the creation of a federal CISO and where policy might move in the coming months. Titus was formerly chief information security officer a...
United States Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Security IT Blog Information security hit the big screen -- well, not so big screen -- with the debut of Fortify Software's documentary, "The New Face of Cybercrime" Thursday in San Francisco. Billed as a "world premier," the showing of the short film was in a small, private theater inside a movie complex, and atte...
IT Blog I know, I know, could it be true? Could Cisco be chosen as the computer security company of the year? Or has the ISSA just been watching too many Cisco commercials? Well, it is hard to say. Don't get me wrong, I love Cisco hardware. It is rock solid. However, there are a lot of security companies o...
IT Blog The cybersecurity group at the Department of Homeland Security has had a hard time hanging onto its leaders, for various reasons, since the department started five years ago. DHS officials have tried a number of approaches in trying to find the right man for the job, going first to government vetera...
IT Blog In the last few months I've been hearing more and more from CEOs, CIOs and CSOs about the changing role of the CSO (or CISO, depending on your org chart) in the enterprise. In the past, the CSO has nearly always been a technically minded person who has risen through the IT ranks and then made the ju...
IT Answer We have an HP OfficeJet 7780 all-in-one that has been set up as a network printer for quite a while. We have been printing to it via Windows from several PCs with no problem. I am trying to set it up as a LAN printer on our AS400 (V6R1) with no luck. I have used IBM's suggested model - *HP520 - a...
AS/400 printing, Network printing, AS/400 network printers IT Answer How stable is this technology? Is it going to grow or die down? Reasons?
IT Blog In this line of work, I can't help but encounter an awful lot of IT buzzwords. I even write a newsletter dedicated to picking the latest and greatest of 'em. Thankfully, one of the guiding principles of WhatIs.com has always been to decode the tech jargon and spin and explain what something is, who ...
IT Blog This is a guest post from Barclay T. Blair, author of Information Nation and head of the information governance practice at Forensics Consulting Solutions LLC. The fact of the matter is that this would all have been prevented if they had just called and said, Destroy the tests, said a ba...
Alex Rodriguez, Major League Baseball, New York Yankee IT Blog Up to this point I've resisted writing about last week's Skype outage, simply because I found it hard to see clear security implications. I could see no solid evidence that the outage was caused by malicious activity. It simply looked like a glitch in Skype's back-end machinery that was triggered b...
Application Security, Information Security Threats IT Answer i have a cx with a virus and it knocked out the internet connection and it will not get reconnected or let me repair the connection after removing the virus. I cant setup the firewall because the service wont start either. Please Help.
IT Answer Can a computer have 2 DNS names that fall in different top-level domains? If so, give a plausible example. If not, explain why not.
IT Answer Do you agree or disagree that the IT jobs by 2009 are going to decrease drastically. If you think the answer is yes, what is the basis of your opinion? And if you think the answer is no, why do you think so?
IT Answer If someone finds out your IP address can they get access to your email and or computer if your email is sitting on their server?
IT Blog Techies and geeks returned from one last weekend of sun, sand and summer to find news of a disruptive change sweeping the online business world. Meet Chrome, Google's new Web browser. News of the announcement was leaked yesterday when Philipp Lenssen, an avid blogger of all-things-Google, received ...
IT Answer How secured is Wi-Fi as compared to Wired Network? What are its Pros and Cons?
IT Answer After a long, stressful day in IT, video games can be a great way to unwind and relax. Thats right, you know where this is leading. Its time for a cool new contest on IT Knowledge Exchange. The month of September ( Sept 1-Sept 30) is your chance to get your hot little hands on your very own Xb...
