Experts Push Guidelines to Halt Data Breaches

After a series of high-profile attacks and security lapses, government and private sector experts pull together a list of recommendations.

Amid increasing scrutiny over U.S. cybersecurity, experts from both the private and public sectors are pushing a set of recommendations they say are sorely needed to help shore up the nation's defenses against data breaches.

The resulting Consensus Audit Guidelines (CAG) map out requirements for security controls needed to protect IT installations in government and the private sector.

Their creators include the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's US-CERT unit, the National Security Agency and the Department of Defense. Commercial penetration testing and forensics experts from security vendors InGuardians and Mandiant also joined the effort. ... Go to source