Rockwell Automation announced that Stephen Ford is joining the company as Vice President and Chief Information Security Officer (CISO).

Pam Presswood has been named the new Chief Information Officer (CIO) at Valor, a business services provider in mineral rights management.

United States Secret Service veteran Mike Smith has been named Chief Security Officer (CSO) at Arcfield, a systems engineering and integration firm in the intelligence and defense sector.

When it comes to running an information security program, barriers to success are predictable. Many are obvious, such as a lack of budget and minimal buy-in, but others are not so clear and it’s often the small things that add up to create real security hurdles.

The University of Pennsylvania’s Information Systems and Computing has debuted a new data center with additional high-tech security systems.