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.

ICSA Labs, a security products testing and certification firm, has announced a new certification process and program that will address threats of security risks in networked devices such as fax machines and printers.  This new program will include vendor certifications to allow consumers an option to be aware of those vendors who have taken the extra steps to have their products validated as claimed by an independent third party audit and testing process.

Joan Goodchild, a senior editor for the CSO magazine, has written a great article entitled “Is Your Printer Secure?” which talks about these same issues  – only in more detail. 

You can read that article in its entirety by clicking the following link: 

http://www.csoonline.com/article/502720/Is_Your_Office_Printer_Secure_

We hope this information has been helpful to you and/or your organization.

Today’s ongoing global economic downturn continues to put increased pressure on organizations and companies who are trying to survive in these troubled times.  The resulting credit crunch adds just one more pressure to that dynamic.

History has taught us that very often crime activity increases under these conditions … and affects ultimately both businesses and individuals.  Therefore a real need now exists for having a security policy, procedure or plan in place —for both your business and personal privacy and security needs.

We recommend reading a recent article written by Dr. Mark Yates, and published in the www.submityourarticles.com website,  as a good place to start.  Although the focus of the article is primarily for business applications, it can easily be interpreted for personal use as well.

Click here to read this article.