Stories about: Evolve

Is enterprise VoIP (voice over IP) due for a security wakeup call or are the threats mostly exaggerated? It depends on who's talking.

The mobile phones being sold on the shelves during the 2006 holiday season should be a lot more secure than this year's crop, thanks to a new mobile security specification that is expected to be released in the first half of 2006.

Michael Assante, VP and CISO of American Electric Power and a former US Navy intelligence officer, answers readers' questions about public-private sector partnerships.

Looking beyond traditional IT network security, a new Data Governance Council has been created by IBM and several dozen companies and IT organizations to help corporate technology users look into better protecting their data against hacker attacks and other breaches.

Tatiana Platt, chief trust officer and senior vice president of America Online, carries the reputation of the AOL brand on her shoulders. Security has become a core component of ensuring the integrity of that brand. CSO spoke to Platt recently about her title, online security and the challenges of communicating security to children, retirees and everyone in between.

Security architectures that are designed solely to react to threats instead of preventing them in the first place are doomed to fail in a world of fast-evolving and self-propagating threats, says Tom Noonan, CEO of Internet Security Systems.

The sheer number of worms and viruses directed at Microsoft's Windows operating system and Internet Explorer browser have many in the computer industry wondering whether we would all be more secure if more users relied on alternatives to Microsoft's products.

America's new rules of privacy are coming from the Old Country. Here's how Europe is getting America to rethink privacy.

The trusted security model of network intrusion-detection systems, triggering alarms for IT action, has become overwhelmed, says the Yankee Group.

Web applications running on open architectures have become breeding grounds for security vulnerabilities, says the Yankee group. As a result, the firm predicts that the Web application security market will be the hottest sector in Internet security in 2003.

CIOs need to ensure that their enterprise has the right balance between security risks, dollars and defences.