Stories by Bill Brenner

Companies that suffer serious security breaches have almost always committed one (or all) of 7 deadly security sins. Is your company guilty?

As President-Elect Obama focuses on two wars and a hemorrhaging economy, security experts are urging him to address five weak security links in America's cyber infrastructure that threaten the nation's defenses and financial institutions.

In a country that's seen many regulatory compliance challenges this decade, the headaches of PCI security tend to be analyzed from a largely American perspective.

A jewellery store chain is having much better luck catching burglars in real time, thanks to a little help from the IT side of the house. Loss Prevention Manager Dennis Thomas explains how the company built its high-tech command center from scratch.

Robert Duran of Time and Allan Kintigh of National Card Services share their PCI auditing experiences. Why one's experience was unpleasant and the other fared better.

Passed your first PCI compliance audit? You've only just begun! Veterans say ongoing challenges with log management, database encryption and upper management buy-in mean the task is never finished.

This is the third installment of a three-part series on the pros and cons of anonymous proxy services. Read the first installment here and listen to the second installment here.

If there is truly a gray zone in the struggle between online good and evil, anonymous proxy servers live there.

Computer networks in the academic world are a lot like the Wild West: It's hard to tell the good guys from the bad, and the sheriff's ability to maintain order is severely limited.

Thanks to all the fear over data security breaches, a computer recycling operation has morphed into something much bigger - and potentially more lucrative - for the Saraiva brothers.