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If you work in financial services, you've probably heard the news by now: The Department of Homeland Security has warned U.S. banks of the threat of an cyberattack from Al Qaeda. Apparently, allies have been called upon to attack the websites of U.S. financial institutions in December.

The major catastrophic events in the past couple of years has initiated much thought and dialogue about the tools we can employ during the disaster recovery process. My first thought is to use portable tools that harness the power of the sun.

A pretty cool new technology in body fluid forensics that has the potential to drastically increase the speed and accuracy of the forensic investigatory process worldwide has been recently introduced to the industry.

If we compare the security of the new Microsoft Vista operating system to how a car works, is it worth the time and possible frustration of the upgrade?

Before I head out to prepare for the annual turkey feast--and believe me, I do feast, as I have 10 years of being a vegetarian to make up for--I thought I'd share a little of the back-story for my November feature on strong authentication in online banking.

Two companies have heard security executives' pleas for data that can help them measure how their risk management efforts stack up.

I know it's only Monday, so is it too early to declare my favorite quote of the week? In an interesting but somewhat fawning "local boy hits bigtime" article about Bruce Schneier in the St. Paul Pioneer Press,

Welcome to the first "Pfeil Not found". Glad you have a few minutes to catch up. I plan to use this space to talk freely with you frequently on things I'm seeing in the industry that have bearing and importance on

Ask most military public relations specialists and they'll have strong opinions about blogs. In a few cases, however, they will approve of soldiers' blogging about their experiences, so long as the soldier is not giving up any top secret