Security Management Strategies for the CIOAccess "Disaster recovery plans and DLP solutions top 2010 priorities"
This article is part of the January/February 2010 issue of Filling the data protection gap
For Scott Floyd, director of information security at a Texas-based community bank, 2010 will be the year to prioritize disaster recovery and business continuity. Driven by a corporate initiative to expand protection of its mission-critical systems, the bank last year implemented a lot of virtualization technology in order to failover data centers within minutes instead of days. "2010 will be tying all those technology choices together to implement a much better recovery plan," Floyd says. His priority falls right in line with a top concern cited by readers who participated in Information Security's Priorities 2010 survey. Seventy-seven percent of the more than 700 respondents rank disaster recovery as a priority this year and 71 percent say business continuity is a top concern. Readers also cite compliance, data loss prevention, and access control as top priorities for 2010. And they're worried about managing emerging threats via the Web as well as the risks posed by social media. Still, budgets remain flat for the most part, and companies are focused on ... Access >>>
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New data protection laws
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Massachusetts 201 CMR 17.00 and Nevada's data protection law establish new standards for personal data protection
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Disaster recovery plans and DLP solutions top 2010 priorities
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New data protection laws
by Richard E. Mackey, Jr., Contributor
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Endpoint DLP fills data protection gap
by Rich Mogull
Learn how endpoint data loss prevention technology complements network DLP and secures data that users interact with on laptops, mobile and portable storage devices.
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Attackers zero in on Web application vulnerabilities
Secure coding and vulnerability scanning could mitigate many Web application attacks
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Endpoint DLP fills data protection gap
by Rich Mogull
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Perspectives: Pet information security risks
by Ron Woerner
IT and security managers often make the mistake of being consumed with a specific risk or threat to the detriment of security
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