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What is more important – patient safety or the health of the enterprise hospital Windows network?  What is more important – writing secure code or installing an anti-virus? Software Associates specializes in helping medical device vendors achieve HIPAA compliance and improve the data and software security of their products in hospital and mobile environments. A …

From the recent September/October 2010 issue of Foreign Affairs – William Lyn U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense writes about defending a new domain. The  long, eloquently phrased article, demonstrates that the US has fundamental flaws in it’s strategic thinking about fighting terror: Predicting cyberattacks is also proving difficult, especially since both state and nonstate actors …

Dissonance between IT and security management. Mark Brewer wrote a thoughtful post on Risk in IT – I liked his use of the  term “resilient organizations”, although I have been using the term “robust organizations”.   The semantic difference between robustness and resilience may be related to the difference between IT and security management world-views. “Risk …

Every Thursday at 14:00 GMT  we host a best practice security workshop online for business professionals, vendors and consultants. There is a short high-quality presentation and we share  knowledge gained in the  trenches. It’s 20 minutes, it’s free and it’s always a lot of fun. Register Here you will receive a confirmation email with a …

Gas prices may go down and  electricity may get cheaper –   but In 2009, most of us  will have less money to spend and our clients will be tough on pricing and orders. For information security and compliance professionals it is the time to find, implement and enforce cost-effective security countermeasures. BUT HOW?