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• In Pictures: 7 commonly overlooked ways to tighten cybersecurity

  It's OK to be paranoid about every last detail when it comes to security.

• 6 IT Security Innovations to Keep You Ahead of Attackers

  Hardly a day goes by without a new security threat emerging. Traditional security tools aren't always up to the task of keeping sensitive business information in safe hands. These six innovations will help you stay a step ahead.

• New standard/tool address security dependencies

  There's a need to rely and trust forces outside our direct control for security -- and that awareness spurred the United Kingdom's national infrastructure protection authority to push for a standard way to model the implications of relying on technology, services, people and more.

• In face of massive cybersecurity threat, government security dawdles

  At a time when the cyberthreat level is at its peak, many federal agencies continue to struggle with IT security.

• 8 questions to ask prospective Cloud vendors

  When you're on an airliner and fly through layers of clouds, you see first-hand that they come in many forms - sometimes hazy, sometimes translucent and sometimes so dense that you can't see through them. In many ways, Cloud computing is similar - there are lots of grey areas, and it's hard to know exactly what you might get from each Cloud offering.

• Do utility companies slight IT security?

  Do utilities and energy companies spend huge amounts for physical security but slight information-technology security?

• Vendor studies aren't all self-promotion

  IT security practitioners typically greet vendor-based studies with scepticism because they come off as a sales pitch for whatever products that vendor sells. People become especially leery when a study leads to the predicted death of a particular security tool. But when looked at cumulatively, such studies offer small snapshots of why companies are making certain security decisions.