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• If It Is Tuesday, It Must Be Another Survey

  The title for this blog was inspired by a classic and favorite movie of mine, If it's Tuesday, This Must be Belgium . I use it without cynicism; the IT industry has no shortage of market surveys on various trends and findings, many of which are very... Posted Apr 20 2010, 08:50 AM by Merritt Maxim with | with no comments Tags: Cloud Security, Cybersecurity, cloud computing, survey, federal cybersecurity, federal government, Cloud Security Alliance

• Common Criteria – a good concept in transformation

  In my first blog, I pointed out that although it’s a good idea, Common Criteria is expensive, not widely adopted beyond government, and could be improved by transforming to Protection Profiles for enterprise security management. Today the industry is... Posted Mar 25 2010, 08:03 AM by Joshua Brickman with | with 3 comment(s) Tags: Security, Cybersecurity, Common Criteria

• DLP – A Real Solution for the Public Sector

  The Ponemon Institute recently conducted and published a study surrounding 10 security trends and opinions of them according to IT leaders in the U.S. Federal government. (The study was commissioned by CA and you can access the report here .) Data Loss... Posted Nov 24 2009, 03:53 PM by David Miller with | with no comments Tags: DLP, data loss prevention, Cybersecurity, social networking, unstructured data, Ponemon

• The Relative Adoption of FISMA

  Since the adoption of the Federal Information Security Act (FISMA) in 2002, its provisions around managing the IT security of Federal information systems have been adopted beyond the Federal government. The reasons for this vary; for example over 50%... Posted Nov 12 2009, 09:05 AM by Allan Gajadhar with | with no comments Tags: Cybersecurity, information security, Allan Gajadhar, federal cybersecurity, FISMA, CyberScope

• FISMA in the Private Sector: Does it Make Sense?

  I've been watching the FISMA and cyber security space closely the past few months, which you probably know if you've seen some of my previous posts on the topic. There has been a fair amount of discussion more recently in the blogosphere regarding... Posted Oct 12 2009, 05:20 AM by Allan Gajadhar with | with no comments Tags: Cybersecurity, Allan Gajadhar, federal security standards, Cybersecurity Act of 2009, FISMA, cybersecurity czar, federal requirements, Internet kill switch