FBI Requests More Security Staff
By Vaune M. Carr, Principal Consultant & Northwest Security Practice Lead, BT Global Services As reported in Infosecurity, FBI Director Robert Mueller recently testified in front of Congress to...
View ArticleEverything Old is New Again
By Toby Weir-Jones, Vice President of Product Development, Managed Security Solutions Group, BT Global Services In March 2008, Marcus Ranum and Bruce Schneier wrote a “Face-Off” piece for Information...
View ArticleThe On-RAMP to Controlling Technology Costs and Risk Management
By Sushila Nair, Product Manager, Managed Security Solutions Group, BT Global Services The government is increasingly made up of large, outsourced and shared systems as it adopts Web 2.0 and cloud...
View ArticleThe Worm That Turned, and Turned Again: Conficker Exposed
By Pete Russo, Senior Marketing Manager, BT Global Services It’s not often that cybersecurity gets its moment in the sun in the mainstream media. Sure, we get sound bites on the latest credit card...
View ArticleFive strategies for CSO success
By Jill Knesek, Chief Security Officer, BT Global Services Last week I spoke at the Secure360 Conference in St. Paul about the challenges facing CSOs. The last decade has been a game-changer for those...
View ArticleSecuring your mobile devices
By Jim Tiller, Vice President, Security Professional Services, North America, BT Global Services As we’ve discussed many times on SecureThinking, it is important for companies to focus on securing...
View ArticleBP Oil Spill Wakes Up Country to Need for Stronger SCADA Controls
By Toby Weir-Jones, Vice President of Product Development, Managed Security Solutions Group, BT Global Services BP – a company name that’s on the minds of most Americans today and probably not in a...
View ArticleWeaponization of Cyberspace — It’s not science fiction, it’s war
By Jim Tiller, Vice President, Security Professional Services, North America, BT Global Services There are a number of folks in the security industry who have downplayed the realities of cyberwar. In...
View ArticleKraken is Baaaaaaaack
By Senthil Venkatachalam, Product Manager, and Tom Le, Director of Research and Development, BT Managed Security Solutions Group Botnets, in general, are very dangerous and difficult to extinguish....
View ArticleTwo BT executives named to SC Magazine’s list of the 10 most influential UK...
By Toby Weir-Jones, Vice President of Product Development, Managed Security Solutions Group, BT Global Services Last week, (ISC)2 and SC Magazine published the 10 most influential security...
View ArticlePART #2 — Security and Fraud: It’s all about the threats
By Jim Tiller, Vice President, Security Professional Services, North America, BT Global Services In Part #1 of this series, Security and Fraud: Do we need to be fraud experts?, I attempted to define...
View ArticleLiars and Outliers: Schneier’s New Book Explores the Role of Trust
After many months of anticipation, Bruce Schneier’s new book Liars and Outliers: Enabling the Trust that Society Needs to Thrive, will finally be available this month. For those of you who’ve not...
View ArticleBYOD in small businesses
The debate around BYOD (bring your own device) often ignores the business issues for small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs); particularly when many of the flagship examples of successful BYOD...
View ArticleSecurity may have changed over the years, but the same pillars are still...
By: Ed Gelbstein At the CISO conferences I regularly attend, discuss and speak at speak they refer to me as the veteran because I have the longest career in IT and related topics (what’s 50 years?)....
View ArticleCloud: Protecting your web of vulnerability
As cloud computing continues to dominate the digital landscape, we must become ever more vigilant to the threats posed by those with hostile intent. The keys to protection are impeccable vigilance,...
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