Your Security Director's Mantra: Be Prepared
Is your organization in an area prone to Hurricanes? Earthquakes? Floods? Ever thought your company and its employees could be stranded at the office?...
Big Fish, Small Fish
By CLARISSA JACOBSON
The old caveat that Nobody ever got fired for using IBM is one that corporate purchasing agents once lived by. A lot has changed since then. Intelligent...
Cell Phone Secrets
Before you list your old company cell phone for sale on ebay, make sure it has been wiped spotless of information, that is. Trust Digital, a McLean, Va.-based...
New Levels of Cyber-Badness
By SANDRA KAY MILLER
In 1983, Hollywood put computer crime in the spotlight. Many might remember the computers at NORAD playing tic-tac-toe after being hacked in the hit movie...
Password Protected? Not Exactly.
The Myth: Single sign-on and other password authentication technologies are sufficient security measures to keep corporate networks safe. ...
Debunking workplace violence myths
THE MYTH: Violent employees just snap. THE REALITY: There are indicators of potentially violent behavior that, if recognized, can be managed, controlled...
Where does the buck stop?
Does your company have a single point of accountability and leadership responsible for assessing, monitoring and recommending mitigation for the entire...
Data bits
Have you considered the insider threat? Only 43 percent of companies have implemented e-mail and instant messaging security to stop insiders from revealing...
Multiple Identity Disorder
By DR. COLLIN SOUTAR
In today's digitally-advanced world, the way we identify ourselves has changed dramatically. For example, people may choose to assume new identities in...
66 Degrees of Convergence
Convergence is one of those ubiquitous industry buzzwords that just begs to be accurately defined. Everybody thinks they know what it means, and yet how...
Where are your employees?
In the days following Hurricane Katrina, emergency responders spent hundreds of man-hours trying to locate survivors and transport them to safety. The...
CEO-Speak
Selling the purchase of security technology to your organization's top officials (the CEO, CFO, etc.) often puts security directors up against barriers...
Tech Power Meets People Power
By MICHAEL FICKES
Many security departments today perform less efficiently than they should, not because they lack technology, but because they have been weighed down by good but unwieldy technology. How security personnel interact with technology is a critical interface in any security deployment — and it's the point where systems ...
Protection Prodigy
By Michael Fickes
Listen to what Alexander Calixto's boss has to say about him: He's 28 years old and knows more of the industry and its products than anyone I have met...
The Diamond's Best Friend
By Michael Fickes
Toughness often isn't enough for a security director that deals with criminals almost every day. Take the case of David F. McGowan, vice president of...
Converge With Caution
By James Gompers
The security industry is entering a new and exciting evolution. Security convergence into the IT world has opened up many possibilities for solutions...
Ever Been Sued?
By Michael Fickes
As every security director well knows, lawsuits filed by people who have suffered injuries that a security director (acting for his or her company) should...
Parking Problems Solved at Toronto Convention Centre
Looking for a way to automate and integrate its vehicle access control and revenue systems, officials at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre (MTCC) wanted...
Why FIPS 201 matters to corporate security
LARRY ANDERSON, EDITOR
A deadline looms next month related to HSPD-12 and FIPS 201 and the federal government. For anyone who speaks a language other than Alphanumeric, these...
Focused on Employees in Crisis
By Randy Southerland
The employee got the bad news early that morning from a human resources representative. He hadn't made the grade and was being terminated effective immediately....
Response Plans Increasing Are They Being Maintained?
Five years after the Sept. 11 attacks and one year after Hurricane Katrina, most companies have some form of disaster response plan in place; however,...
Restoring Security Confidence
By Randy Southerland
When Rick Peat took over security operation at Memorial Health System in Colorado Springs, Colo., he faced a real but unseen problem. Nobody at the hospital...
Two-fers
By Michael Fickes
Remember those famous (or infamous) Mickey Mouse security tests in which employees pasted pictures of Mickey and Minnie Mouse over the ID photo on their...
The Virtual Bank Vault
By Sandra Kay Miller
Walk into a bank and, chances are, you will see the standard vault, complete with massive steel door armed with thick, cylindrical pins. Unseen are the...
The Biometric Clock
By Carol Carey
For International Bank of Commerce (IBC), the decision to invest in a biometric computer security system has brought both expected and unexpected rewards....
