While most of the corporate world went into Holiday Hibernation for the last two weeks of the year, we continued to scour the webscape on your behalf. And it’s a good thing we did, because there are at least a couple of interesting items you might have missed.

Both of these fit a common theme, and it’s something that should be on your front burner this year. In the face of increased cybercrime and intrusions, if there is going to be a Year of Security, 2012 should be it. More...

If there is a positive side to the recent East Coast earthquake, it is that most large businesses were not overly concerned about disaster recovery. Thanks to the cloud, off-site data centers, and disaster recovery preparedness, enterprises remained in good shape when it came to protecting their enterprise data in such a disaster. Says CIO.com, realistically, most businesses probably forgot about Tuesday's earthquake by the next morning. That is good news.More...

The abundance and velocity at which new technology is integrated into the enterprise ecosystem no doubt keeps the best of IT up at night. The reality seems like Mission Impossible, says NetworkWorld. The technology tsunami is creating an exacerbating security situation. As risks increase, how can enterprise IT prepare for the future? More...

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Director John Morton recently observed that “American innovation is being diluted – and organized criminal enterprises are profiting from their increasing involvement in IP theft.” More...

Cybercrime -- criminal activity over the Internet, computers, and networks --  is pervasive, and no company is too big or too small to be affected. According to one study, companies experience an average of one successful security breach each week. Take, for example, the much-publicized incident on April 4.  More...

The enterprise embrace of social media has been well documented. Organizations are creating corporate Facebook pages, showcasing product demos on YouTube, and acquiring Twitter fans by the minute.  Many corporations are wisely leveraging social media beyond a branding tool, and finding success using it as a major communication and marketing channel. More...

This summer the blogosphere was buzzing about an issue, uncovered by IOActive researcher Dan Kaminsky, that impacted the Internet’s Domain Name Server (DNS) system.  “DNS Cache Poisoning” is a fairly simple attack model that leverages the huge volume of requests that occur within an ISP environment. More...