Security News Roundup

There have been a number of great news items in the security field in the past couple of weeks. So, this post will share some that I found particularly interesting or useful.

The Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS) Commission on Cybersecurity for the 44th Presidency has released its final report, “Securing Cyberspace for the 44th Presidency.” The report indicates the importance of Cybersecurity as a national security issue, that privacy and civil liberties should be reflected in cubersecurity issues, and that a national security strategy is necessary.

Control Risks has released its annual RiskMap report for 2009. The RiskMap provides an assessment of global and regional political and security risks that businesses are likely to face in the upcoming year. Read more about that here and here.

Roger Grimes at InfoWorld sets out the two primary things you need to know in order to secure your home computer (or home business computer). Although he talks about anti-virus programs, his two main pieces of advice involve being smart (don’t download it if you don’t trust it) and to patch your system regularly – he does recommend the commercial version of Secunia’s Software Inspector for this. Keep reading here.

There’s an interesting article by Tom Olzak at Tech Republic asking if state and federal breach notification mandates are unreasonable. I’ve always been a huge proponent of national legislation as key; I believe consumers need to be informed of breaches in order to mitigate their risk and choose which companies they choose to trust. Tom agrees with this, and argues against statements to the contrary made by Chris Wolf, an attorney and head of the Proskauer Rose (Washington, D.C.) law firm’s privacy and security group. You can read the article here.

Also an interesting read from informIT, an article entitled “Software [In]security: Software Security Top 10 Surprises“.

Have you found any security reports or news to be an interesting read of late? If so, do share the link in the comments!

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