Protecting the personal information of customers, clients, and employees is good business. The Federal Trade Commission has a new online tutorial to alert businesses and other organizations to ...

For effective and successful penetration testing, information gathering is a prime aspect, and must be given utmost importance by security researchers, according to the Open Web Application Security ...

When reviewing job growth and salary information, it’s important to remember that actual numbers can vary due to many different factors—like years of experience in the role, industry of employment, ...

BackTrack 5, code named “Revolution”, the much awaited penetration testing framework, was released in May 2011. It is a major development over BackTrack4 R2. BackTrack 5 is said to be built from ...

The recent the Hydraq attacks were the latest example of just how radically the Internet threat landscape has changed over the past few years, and how vulnerable companies and their information stores ...

Information security, sometimes abbreviated to infosec, is a set of practices intended to keep data secure from unauthorized access or alterations, both when it’s being stored and when it’s being ...

With five years of experience as a writer and editor in the higher education and career development space, Ilana has a passion for creating accessible, relevant content that demystifies the higher-ed ...

When reviewing job growth and salary information, it’s important to remember that actual numbers can vary due to many different factors—like years of experience in the role, industry of employment, ...

What do You Need to Know? Security managers do not need to become IT experts to manage deployments of IT based security systems. However, they do need to know the main limitations and concerns of ...

The title of Chief Information Security Officer, or CISO, emerged during the 1990s as the first large-scale cyber attacks started to occur. Since then, it's become a near-ubiquitous role in any large ...