Certainly, security professionals must be totally capable of evaluating risk, but, more importantly, in any organization, it is becoming more necessary to communicate that risk to management in a way that gets a buy-in and support for truly being able to mitigate that risk for the organization.

With that in mind, we suggest you read a recent article published in Dark Reading, and authored by Tim Wilson.  Much of the material in the article comes from a series of speakers and presentation made at the recent CSI Annual Conference - 2009 .

Read the full article.

Marcia Peacock published an article on CMS WIRE that commented upon the recently released Clearwell’s Top 5 eDiscovery Trends of 2010.

Those Forecasted Trends of 2010 for eDiscovery were listed as: (1) Early case assessment, (2) Technology-Lead Initiatives, (3) eDiscovery gets project managed, (4) Data analytics set benchmarks, and (5) a single eDiscovery platform.

To read more details about these trends, read Marcia Peacock’s full article.

CNET News writer, Lance Whitney, shared his comments on the findings from a recent McAfee report titled “The Security Paradox“.  (Read this report)

One of the most revealing findings of this report address the fact that more mid-sized companies are being attacked by cybercriminals at the same time that those same companies are freezing their IT Security budgets.

Those security breaches can also be expensive — the study found that over the last year, 1 out of 5 mid-sized companies surveyed lost $41,000 in sales on average as a result of a breach.

There are many other revealing facts f rom this study that make this report and Lance Whitney’s summary article well worth reading.