http://www.informationweek.com/news/security/intrusion-prevention/232601436 By Mathew J. Schwartz InformationWeek February 25, 2012 If there's one IT realm that hasn't been quiet over the past year, it's information security. "It's been a crazy year. There've just been so many incidents," said Hugh Thompson, chief security strategist at People Security. "There've been so many of these--whatever you want to call them--advanced persistent threats, advanced attacks. What does it mean for big businesses and how security has to change?" That's the big question for this year's RSA conference, which is one of the country's largest gatherings of information security aficionados. Kicking off Monday in San Francisco, here are some of the hottest security topics on tap: 1. Securing Employees' Smartphones and Tablets Mobile devices are highly portable and easy to use. Accordingly, it's a no-brainer that employees use them to store sensitive business information. But the devices, being small and portable, have a habit of getting lost or stolen. In addition, they're increasingly under attack from growing quantities of mobile malware. That means securing mobile devices poses a massive headache for enterprise IT groups, as evidenced by the topic's conference-paper popularity. "We started a half track this year for mobile, thinking we'd get some good submissions," said Thompson, who serves as the RSA conference's program committee chair. "As it turned out, we couldn't contain it in that half track, and they've just spilled over everywhere." [...] ______________________________________________________________________________ CISSP and CEH training with Expanding Security is the fastest, easiest way to grock the relevant data you need now. A free class invite is in every PainPill. Sign up for the free weekly PainPill. It's that easy. http://www.expandingsecurity.com/PainPillReceived on Mon Feb 27 2012 - 02:01:27 PST
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