CA on Security Management

Disclosing vulnerabilities, breaches and why the Pennsylvania CISO issue troubles the industry

Merritt Maxim — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 17:53:00 GMT

The infosec blogosphere erupted last week on the news that the State of Pennsylvania's CISO Robert Maley was removed from his post over remarks about a recent breach at the Pennsylvania DOT that he made during a panel session at the RSA Conference last week. Eric Chabrow at GovInfoSecurity.com was in attendance at the actual panel and blogged about the discussion. He also posted...

Web-Based Collaboration is Good, But It Raises Some Security Concerns

David Gormley — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 19:22:00 GMT

Few would question the value of collaboration to speed time to completion in any number of typical business processes. New technologies and Web connectivity have fueled the growth of this dynamic marketplace. IDC estimates that SharePoint’s growth was double that of the other tier one Collaborative Content Workspace vendors in 2008 and at this year’s SharePoint Conference, Microsoft claimed...

The Benefits of Cloud Computing - A Vendor Perspective

Merritt Maxim — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 21:36:00 GMT

The excitement and buzz around cloud computing touts lower costs, simplified deployments, and flexibility as significant business benefits, all of which are well founded. However, cloud computing delivers another significant benefit for IT vendors, especially for vendors like CA that offer both on-premises and cloud-based applications. This benefit is the ability to deliver real-time...

Kantara Initiative One Year Later (Almost)

Matthew Gardiner — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 01:45:00 GMT

At this year's RSA 2010 Conference the Kantara Initiative is celebrating its first birthday with a day-long workshop entitled Technology, Policy, and Compliance for Identity Services in 2010 & Beyond. It was just a year ago at the RSA Conference 2009 that a number of organizations publicly announced their intention to found this identity focused industry consortium. Soon...

EU won't give U.S. data on bank transfers

Yves Le Roux — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 15:58:00 GMT

On February 11, 2010, the European Parliament refused to give its consent to the EU's (European Union) interim agreement on banking data transfers to the USA via the SWIFT network, amid concerns for privacy, proportionality and reciprocity. This move renders the text signed between the US and the 27 EU Member states legally void. The parliament's president, Jerzy Buzek, said the assembly...