Password Protected? Not Exactly.
The Myth: Single sign-on and other password authentication technologies are sufficient security measures to keep corporate networks safe. ...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
The Case of the Missing Laptops
By Jacqueline Emigh
Parking lots constitute a risky place for laptop computers. We've had units stolen out of cars when an employee goes into a restaurant to grab a hamburger,...
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...
