TROY - Walsh College Information Assurance Center Director Nan Poulios, CISSP, CISM, will speak on Phishing, Phaxing, Pharming, and Training at CSI 2007 on November 3-9 in Washington, D.C. In a presentation on why information security training often fails to produce the expected effects, Poulios will discuss how users? online actions often directly conflict with
KALAMAZOO ? Dan Lohrmann, Michigan's first Chief Information Security Officer, will be a keynote speaker Oct. 4 when GLIMASouthwest hosts its Security Tech Expo at Western Michigan University's Fetzer Center. Lohrmann?s keynote speech, e-Security: 10 Things that Keep Me Up at Night will focus on cyber bad guys in enterprise security, current legislation, budget cuts,
CHICAGO - On July 30th and 31st, DePaul University will be hosting IP3 which will present a comprehensive IT-IA Security seminar for corporate IT security leaders called From Strategy to Reality: The Bigger Picture. Ken Kousky, President and CEO of IP3, will conduct and showcase the world-class seminar, which will earn 14 CEU credits. Kousky
WASHINGTON DC - A recent federal court decision raises the question of whether antivirus companies may intentionally overlook spyware that is secretly placed on computers by police. In the case decided earlier this month by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, federal agents used spyware with a keystroke logger--call it fedware--to record the typing
WASHINGTON DC - The Net neutrality skirmish that swallowed up so much of Congress' technopolitical agenda last year may be gearing up for a comeback. A pair of senators who led the divisive push for the new regulations want everyone to know they haven't forgotten the cause. Sens. Byron Dorgan (D-N.D.) and Olympia Snowe (R-Maine)
WASHINGTON DC -With only two months left before government agencies must figure out how to deal with data breaches and data theft, federal bureaucrats are scrambling to meet the looming deadline. The deadline was created by a White House directive published this spring that gave all federal agencies until September 22 to figure out the
WASHINGTON DC - Politicians charged this month that peer-to-peer networks can pose a "national security threat" because they enable federal employees to share sensitive or classified documents accidentally from their computers. At a hearing on the topic, Government Reform Committee Chairman Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) said, without offering details, that he is considering new laws aimed
ANN ARBOR - L. Lee Gorman has been named director of the automotive business unit at Coherix, a supplier of holographic and optical inspection systems to measure production and component quality in the automotive, aerospace, electronics, medical supply and semiconductor industries. Prior to joining Coherix, Gorman was a principal at Barton Consulting Services in Ann
KALAMAZOO ? Blue-Granite co founder Dan Blackledge has succeeded David Hatfield as the chairman of the advisory board for the Kalamazoo Valley Community College Michigan Technical Education Center. Hatfield, president and chief executive officer of Main Street Savings Bank in Hastings, has held the chairmanship since the KVCC M-TEC opened its doors in March of
WASHINGTON DC - Insurance companies argued that using the reimbursement schedule for worker's compensation to control the costs for no-fault insurance would allow rate cuts, at least in the long run. But Democrats on the House Insurance Committee did not appear ready Wednesday to trade cuts to physicians and hospitals without a guarantee of rate