Stories about: Starbucks

Remember the old M&M analogy - security is like an M&M candy, hard shell on the outside, soft on the inside. In other words, put up firewalls, built a strong perimeter and you're good to go. Of course, nobody believes that M&M-type security is sufficient in today's world of insider threats, data leakage, mobile workers, thumb drives and sophisticated malware. So, what's the new metaphor? We asked around and came up with a number of interesting and useful ways to think about enterprise security.

Web-based e-mail is booming. Services such as Gmail, Yahoo Mail and Hotmail are convenient, accessible and, best of all, free. Many of us have come to rely on them without giving it a second thought.

A Look at the all time greatest controversies in the history of the networking industry.

The call to Bob Bailey, an IT executive with a major US government contractor, came on an otherwise ordinary day in October 2003. "Why are you attacking us?" demanded the caller, an IT leader with a Silicon Valley manufacturer. He wanted to know why Bailey's company had launched a denial-of-service attack against his network

When he describes the security function's goals at Starbucks Coffee, Francis D'Addario shares a 13-syllable mantra: Protect people. Secure assets. Enable mission.

When he describes the security function's goals at Starbucks Coffee, Francis D'Addario shares a 13-syllable mantra: Protect people. Secure assets. Enable mission.

CSOs count on physical security metrics to evaluate their organizations' performance and to communicate security's value to other business executives.

We put questions to a host of CSOs and a leading recruiter to see how the shape of the security practice is changing.

“Security” means different things to different organisations; for proof you need look no further than the disparate collection of security chiefs featured in this issue.