The California State Auditor has issued a stinging report that faults the California Department of Technology (CDT) for its oversight of state agencies’ information security — the Auditor’s sixth such ...

The agency that administers the federal government’s 401(k)-style retirement program received the lowest of five possible scores on a recent audit to determine its compliance with federal information ...

BSI recently updated ISO 27006, which provides minimum requirements for auditor competency for bodies that provide audit and certification of information security management systems (ISMS). John ...

The state auditor’s office says in a new report that it’s keeping the California Department of Technology (CDT) on its list of “high-risk” agencies due to concerns about state departments’ information ...

In a world where breach techniques evolve faster than your tools can update, the only sustainable security posture is one ...

Information security audits are on the rise, as organizations look to not only bolster their security postures, but demonstrate their efforts to other parties such as regulators. Audits, which are ...

When CardSystems Solutions was hacked in 2004 in one of the largest credit card data breaches at the time, it reached for its security auditor’s report. In theory, CardSystems should have been safe.

In the early days of computers, many people were suspicious of their ability to replace human beings performing complex tasks. The first business software applications were mostly in the domain of ...

Phil Goldstein is a former web editor of the CDW family of tech magazines and a veteran technology journalist. He lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife and their animals: a dog named Brenna, and ...