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A recent federal court ruling in Pennsylvania has brought this question back into discussion amongst many security, technology and legal professionals. In Healthcare Advocates Inc. v. Harding Earley Follmer & Frailey, the court ruled that it is not considered unauthorized (and therefore illegal) access if the information in question was gathered from publicly archived or cached data. This means if your company’s data has been cached by search engines such as Google or Internet Archive that data – whether sensitive or not – can be legally accessed by anyone.

We’ve received a lot of requests for the resources we described during our recentSecurity 101: Getting on the Right Track, Right Away webcast. In addition to an archiveof the webcast, here are the books, websites, and other resources that will help you get started in IT security

This article from SC Magazine takes a look at security spending. Traditionally dominated by the enterprise, security spending appears, at least to analyst Mike Rothman, to be experiencing more growth in the small-to-medium enterprise (SME) segment. Smaller financial institutions such as regional credit unions and health care organizations have increased their spending on security technologies.

A couple of utilities focused articles hit recently – one proclaiming that utilities are upping security, the other claiming they are behind and even negligent. Computerworld looks at the new reliability standards, which include cybersecurity controls, and the impact on spending in “New reliability rules put a charge in IT spending by utilities”. Good overview/updates on utility security progress.