After a year of high-tech breaches at some of the nation's biggest companies, a provision in a Senate bill calls on the White House to encourage a market for cybersecurity insurance to protect businesses from debilitating costs brought on by hacking and compromised information.
The bill, introduced by Sens. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.V., and Olympia Snowe, R-Maine, says the president or his appointee must report to Congress on "the feasibility of creating a market for cybersecurity risk management" one year after the bill's passing.
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Given the many threats organizations face in protecting critical information and processes, an information security policy is arguably one of the most important documents an organization can create.
Banking Institutions Should Prepare for 'The Year of Consumer Protection'. If you thought 2009 was a tough year in terms of regulatory scrutiny, wait until 2010.
A point-of-sale vendor-led group today issued guidelines for end-to-end encryption that could provide a glimpse into the shape of cardholder data protection.






