Data Breach Today Podcast

What's the top threat on the minds of global IT leaders? Employee-owned mobile devices - or BYOD (bring your own device), as the trend is known. The struggle: Do mobile device benefits outweigh the organizational risks?

Adam Greene, the primary author of the proposed accounting of disclosures rule mandated under the HITECH Act, describes its major provisions and offers advice on how to prepare.

Kirk Herath, Chief Privacy Officer at Nationwide Insurance Companies, has been in privacy management for more than a decade, and he has two main concerns about today's enterprise: Mobile technology and cloud computing.

The recent data breaches at Epsilon and Sony should send a chilling message to privacy officers everywhere. "You can't prepare enough," says Kirk Herath, chief privacy officer of Nationwide Insurance Companies.

Regulatory compliance expert Harry Rhodes says it's essential to have a formal process in place for objectively assessing whether a security incident needs to be reported as a breach.

ThreatMetrix's Taussig says strong authentication should be part of every financial institution's layered security approach. And according to expected changes to the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council's 2005 online authentication guidance, that means proven measures to enhance device identification.

ThreatMetrix's Taussig says device identification must be part of layered security measures. Banking regulators want financial institutions to deploy multiple layers of online security. But what does that expectation mean when it comes to investments in fraud detection?

Intel CISO Malcolm Harkins says the Sony PlayStation breach reminds CISOs in all sectors that such incidents can't be avoided, but their risks can be managed.

"Breach notification planning is just a fundamental, basic part of risk management in the new millennium," says security expert Bob Chaput.

Four years ago, the Council of Registered Ethical Security Testers began as an organization to bring standardization to the penetration testing industry. Today, CREST's scope is expanding across industries and global regions, says president Ian Glover.

Security expert Andrew Weidenhamer offers insights on physical security measures that can help prevent breaches.

IT security and privacy lawyer David Navetta says revelations that mobile devices such as the iPhone, iPad and Android maintain hidden files tracking users locations could pose a threat to organizations, regardless of whether the devices are owned by individual employees, the company or government agency for which they work.

From mobile devices to social media and cloud computing, IT governance is all about risk management. "You can't de-risk everything, but you can de-risk the majority of circumstances you will see in normal operations," says governance expert Robert Stroud.

The latest Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report is out, and the good news is: The number of compromised records is down. The troubling news is: The number of breaches is up. Bryan Sartin, one of the report authors, explains why.

Altra Federal Credit Union developed a calculated strategy before moving to the cloud -- advice all financial institutions should follow, says Brian Boettcher, VP of IT, who shares his lessons learned.

When it comes to e-marketing and the reliance on third parties such as Epsilon, Nicolas Christin of Carnegie Mellon University says banks and merchants should "come clean" about the information they share with outside entities.

Privacy Attorney Lisa Sotto says the Epsilon e-mail breach is a warning about the state of data security employed by some third-party service providers. Strong contracts related to security practices must be the norm, not the exception.

Terrell Herzig, CISO at UAB Medicine, speaks out on steps steps he's taking in the wake of the RSA SecurID attack.

Marcus Ranum isn't just a well-regarded information security expert. He's also a customer of the RSA SecurID product, and he's got some strong feelings about the RSA breach and how the industry has responded to it.

The announcement by RSA that it had been a victim of an advanced persistent threat shook the global information security industry. Stephen Northcutt of SANS Institute and David Navetta of the Information Law Group offer insight on what happened, what it means and how to respond.