For those tasked with managing risk throughout the enterprise, and who follow my blog postings, you’re familiar with a theme I stress often regarding information security best practices: “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.”
For practitioners and managers tasked with enterprise risk management, you can apply this approach to all your decision-making, whether you’re looking to make new technology purchases, implement new policies, and, perhaps most importantly, hiring new people. Keep reading →
COMMENTARY: I keep hearing and reading that Google and Facebook are changing their polices about handling our personal information and that the White House, Congress, consumer groups, regulators, and their millions of users are concerned.
UPDATED. President Barack Obama reached out across the Internet to engage directly with Americans and small business owners in a live virtual interview staged by The White House Monday. The virtual session, held at 5:30 EST, was hosted by Google and produced using YouTube in what was billed as a post State of the Union Google+ Hangout.
The FBI has something new on its most wanted list: A way to monitor, map and analyze social media intelligence around the world in real time.
The combination of social media and transparency in federal spending adds up to boatloads of data. But what impact do these forces have on federal policy? Perhaps more to the point: Is policy driving change, or is change driving policy?
The Obama Administration has arguably become one of the most adept administrations in history at harnessing new media technologies to take its case directly to the American public.
Social media and Internet freedom have become an increasingly important part of the State Department’s agenda, a senior adviser to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said today during an international