Today's information security landscape has changed for all sizes of businesses in every industry. The need for a competent security team has never been greater, and this need is not going away any time soon. What is the best way to fill this need? This five-part article series explores the top considerations to help you evaluate the best approach for acquiring information security talent. In this fifth and final article in this series, we focus on information security fundamentals: Measuring the maturity of your security program. This consideration is probably the most critical to success of the information security program, because if the foundation of your security program is weak, it really does not matter what you build on top of it.

This five-part article series explores the top considerations to help you evaluate the best approach for acquiring IT security talent at your organization. The previous article (#3) looked at the impact on your security effort of having external resources on your team that effectively have two bosses: you and their security consulting manager. In this article, we look at the importance of understanding the "why" in your IT security staffing effort. Knowing why you are looking for a team in the first place can be the best guide possible in making sure you make the most educated decisions possible in your quest for IT security talent.

In conversations with IT Security across industries and organizatons, we are seeing indications of a growing need - IT Security in enterprises want to extend their eyes and ears to threats beyond the confines of their networks. Hear from one Security Leader discussing exactly that in a recent conversation.

Each article in this series will explore the top considerations to help you evaluate the best approach for acquiring information security talent at your organization. In the previous article, we covered the importance of knowing how your organization could scale information security resources if it was required. In this article, we will move on to the next critical piece in the information security resourcing puzzle: The impact on your information security effort of having external resources on your team that effectively have two bosses: you and their security consulting manager.

Each article in this series will explore one of the top five considerations to help you evaluate the best approach for acquiring IT security talent at your organization. In the last article, we explored measuring your organization's ability to find and retain IT security talent. In this article, we will move on to the next critical consideration for acquiring security talent: understanding how well your organization could scale your information security team if it was required. This consideration is critical when taking into account the traits of information security in the common organization.

Seems like every time a major merchant or service provider breach is disclosed, “were they compliant with PCI DSS?” is one of the first questions asked.

Whether you are a bank, a bio-tech, or something in-between, today's security landscape has put the need for acquiring security talent for the common organization on the rise. From managing security equipment, to managing risk, to complying with security regulations, it is clear that the need for a competent security team has never been greater, and this need is not going away any time soon. So as an organization, what is the best way to fill this need? This article series will explore this topic and provide five considerations to evaluate.

Ecommerce is booming – and so are online threats. With urgent business demands for improved website performance, cross-channel data integration and other issues, are ecommerce companies doing enough to protect customer and critical business data?

You hear it all the time in business - the relationship is key. But in an age of social media madness, email overload and declining travel budgets, we tend to easily forget as we tweet our life away that a "relationship" is much more than ones and zeros.

Smart Grids are becoming more and more prevalent and will only become more so - the US Government allocated 165 billion to the development of smart grids. Why should security play such an important role? All points of the Smart Grid electrical distribution systems are networked, connected and are all hackable.