The cost of a data breach? $214 per compromised record and averaged $7.2 million per data breach event, says the Ponemon's U.S. Cost of a Data Breach report.

Purdue University has been awarded more than $1 million from the National Science Foundation to provide support for students seeking advanced degrees in information security.

Private security guards protecting the Social Security Administration were found napping, watching television, chatting with co-workers, talking for hours on the phone and failing to examine identification badges at checkpoints, according to a report.

Facial recognition and video based biometrics continue to be a hot topic with security professionals. While shows like CSI, Law & Order and 24 make it seem that technologies exist that can pick a terrorist out of a crowd in Times Square or spot a criminal the moment he steps foot on the street, the reality is that we're not quite there...yet.

A computer security breach has been reported at the University of South Carolina-Sumter.

Police arrested a city employee in Pinellas Park, Fla. last week and charged him with stealing scrap copper from the city.

Two proposed New Hampshire House bills that would restrict the government's ability to monitor private individuals will be discussed at a Commerce Committee executive session this week.

ASIS International presented the Award for Senior Regional Vice President (SRVP) of the Year to security consultant William G. Bradshaw, CPP, and the Award for Regional Vice President (RVP) of the Year to Robert E. Johnson, Executive Director of Operations, RIBI Security.