Expanding What's Thinkable
Larry Anderson, Editor
How's this for a happy coincidence? At a time when the profile of security is on the rise at many companies, when the consequences of good security are...
Innovation Corner: The Key To Identity Protection
With more than 10 million Americans becoming victim to identity theft each year, data security providers are now focusing on developing products to combat...
A Balanced Scorecard for Security
If you want to measure the effectiveness of your converged security program, try looking at its contribution to the strategic goals of the business you...
From the Bookshelf
Does it worry you that security is rarely the first department contacted when misconduct allegations surface? Are others in your organization equipped...
Hacker Boot Camp
A new training course offered by Philadelphia-based Training Camp, a company that provides accelerated learning courses for IT professionals, is helping...
Network downtime from attack has companies losing revenue
Large organizations are losing an average of 2.2 percent of their annual revenue -- or more than $30 million -- to network security attacks, according to a study on network downtime by analyst firm Infonetics Research.
The study, "The Costs of Network Security Attacks: North America 2007," additionally shows that small and medium organizations lose about half a percent of their annual revenue to security attacks, which can run into the hundreds of thousands of dollars....
Everyday Encryption
By SANDRA KAY MILLER
Encryption is being implemented in many places besides the office. Most people associate encryption with protecting information as it travels across a...
Don't Go Away Mad
ASHLEY ROE
Firing an employee sparks dread in many managerial minds. Beyond the fact that letting an employee go is no fun, employers must also anticipate any security...
The End-User's Role In Integration
By RAYMOND DEAN
Last month's article described how an end-user should go about selecting a systems integrator and what is reasonable to expect from that person and his...
Innovation Corner
Passwords and other precautions are used to protect the sensitive information on our computers, and yet how often do we print documents in common areas...
Benchmarking Ethics Hotlines
PAUL ROTHMAN
Corporate compliance reporting study gives companies a chance to measure up. It is an issue that senior management is taking very seriously and it can...
5 Questions To Ask Your Systems Integrator And 6 Things to Expect
By RAYMOND DEAN
Whether installing a new security system or retrofitting an existing one, an important step for an end-user to take is selecting the best systems integrator...
Behind Closed Doors
The potential for office eavesdropping is greater than you think. Is your office safe from deliberate and accidental eavesdropping? Even with today's...
Biometrics Solves Buddy Punching for Hilton Resort
The Hilton Waterfront Beach Resort, a AAA four-diamond-rated resort that offers 290 rooms in Huntington Beach, Calif., is using the biometric HandPunch...
Unified Asset Protection
By SANDRA KAY MILLER
Within the security industry, there has traditionally been a focus on asset control, but has become a broader term of late, encompassing not only tangible...
Biometrics Baffler
By MICHAEL FICKES
Sales of biometric technologies are growing by 200 percent per year, according to Walter Hamilton, vice president of Kirkland, Wash.-based Saflink Corp.,...
A Contrarian's Viewpoint
By Sandra Kay Miller
Speaking about the trend of organizations to converge physical and logical security, Marcus Ranum sees the push for network integration of physical security...
It's Nothing Personal!
The MYTH: Instant messages, personal e-mails and unsent files created on work computers remain personal. The REALITY: Personal e-mail messages, instant...
Step Up Your Profile
By Michael Fickes
C-level business leaders are demanding that security departments pull their weight and contribute business value to their companies. But most security directors are failing to get with the program, as they continue to tinker with core security activities such as access control, guard staffs or services. ...
Far-From-Trivial Pursuit
The Solutions Navigator is a new approach to security strategic planning that applies a collaborative and interactive process to bring together representatives...
Security for Your Health
DuPont, a worldwide chemicals and healthcare company, has released a corporate biosecurity kit designed to reduce employee exposure to a broad range of...
Think In Layers for Effective Data Security
A layered approach is a long-held practice for providing an organized and effective approach to physical security. It's also a strategy that works well...
A Matter of Trust
By MICHAEL FICKES
The $11 billion Somers, N.Y.-based Pepsi Bottling Group (PBG) is the world's largest manufacturer, seller and distributor of Pepsi-Cola beverages. Yet the company's security staff consists of about a half dozen people. Terry McKinney, senior director of security, maintains ...
Know Your CEO
MICHAEL FICKES
When talking to a company CEO, it is not what you say; it is what they hear that is important. Suppose, for instance, you are pitching the purchase of...
8 Steps for Selecting a Security Contractor
Remember enduring the ambibilant mind process that occurs on a first date? Wherever the outing took place, chances are, you spent most of the time sizing...
