Ellen Messmer

Forrester Research this week published a report that advises security professionals not to jump the gun on fixing security deficiencies immediately after a data breach is identified since that could destroy valuable evidence needed to prosecute cyber-criminals

The telecommunications industry isn't sharing information about attacks as well as they should, a U.S. operator tells a conference

One of Canada's largest political parties uses cloud-based Salesforce.com in the U.S. to store voter information and interact with them, but worries that U.S. government snoops could peek at sensitive information under U.S. law

Upcoming service lets IT managers find both public Web-facing and internally-used certificates before they expire

A badly-maintained Windows and Exchange server network at Amag Pharmaceuticals is eliminated in favour of a cloud strategy

About $1 billion in expense reductions are coming, but Cisco plans to keep building out the security architecture. SecureX involves use of a tagging technology for network visibility and security purposes

A survey of 344 CFOs at North American companies involved in manufacturing, financial services, healthcare, energy, transportation and other fields shows chief financial officers aren't happy with their technology strategy

The U.S. National Security Agency says commercial smart phones and tablets are OK, but need to be based on the agency's security design