security standards news from FierceCIO

The Defense Information Systems Agency's (DISA) new cloud-computing offering is now available for production use. First unveiled a year ago, the Rapid Access Computing Environment (RACE) allowed... Read more...

An indictment in the largest case of computer crime and identity theft ever, brought by government prosecutors, offers a clear warning to retail and bank IT executives that it is time to raise the... Read more...

President Obama outlined his new cybersecurity plans and how they will impact the federal government last week, but he left the door open as to how the new rules would affect the private sector. Just... Read more...

The tech industry has been analyzing and evaluating the recent theft of 4.2 million credit and debit card numbers from the Hannaford supermarket chain, a Maine-based grocer. And what they are finding... Read more...

Fourteen merchant organizations, including retailers like Wal-Mart and U.K.-based Tesco and large financial institutions such as Bank of America and JPMorgan Chase, were elected last week to the... Read more...

While everybody is still talking about the importance of IT and business alignment, effective execution remains an elusive outcome. Experts say that building a governance framework is important to... Read more...

> Government plans to develop more security standards. Article > Go... Read more...

Federation, a burgeoning technology that makes identity and entitlements portable, is a major step in the progress of identity management. These advances should make extending authentication... Read more...