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Sheldon Cuffie, vice president of information risk at Northwestern Mutual, knew cybersecurity was moving up in the world when a board member invited him to lunch. “Two years ago the chief information security officer (CISO) didn’t attend board meetings, didn’t talk to our leadership team,” he...

What happens if someone attacks the American power system and turns off the electricity for a city, or a region? What would it be like without power? At the Fusion Executive Summit on Cybersecurity this week, the Wisconsin Adjutant General, the state CIO, and the...

To study the graph of Amazon’s stock performance in 2015 is to witness a series of stepwise lurches toward commanding new heights. Over all, the stock market has been flat this year, and technology companies, as a group, haven’t fared much better. Then there’s Amazon, which...

Without electricity, the world pretty much shuts down, and without gas to heat homes, Wisconsin residents would have hard time coping with winter. As CEO of Madison Gas & Electric, Gary Wolter knows his company has to secure its technology to provide those services to its...

Firewalls and medical devices are extremely vulnerable, and everyone’s pointing fingers In the fall of 2013, Billy Rios flew from his home in California to Rochester, Minn., for an assignment at the Mayo Clinic, the largest integrated nonprofit medical group practice in the world. Rios is...

Hack underscores amateur goofs routinely made by Internet-of-Things developers. The cautionary tales just keep coming for Internet-connected TVs, thermostats, and other so-called "Internet-of-Things" devices. Today's lesson comes courtesy of a smart TV from Vizio that was subjected to a man-in-the-middle attack because it couldn't be bothered...

We are in the midst of a tectonic shift in enterprise technology as the cloud has an ever-growing impact on how businesses provision infrastructure and software. Established vendors used to selling copious amounts of hardware and software have been experimenting with various strategies to deal...

Worries about security, interoperability and patient rights are complicating the health care industry's transition to digital health care applications and electronic medical records. HALF MOON BAY, Calif.—The need to move to modern computer technology including cloud computing to enable the transition to digital health care and...