According to a new report by Cisco Systems, 70 percent of young professionals frequently ignore IT policies, with one in four the victim of identity theft before the age of 30.

I would love to tell you that social network security issues will decrease in 2012 and be completely eliminated soon after. Of course, in 2004, Bill Gates famously predicted, "Two years from now, spam will be solved." If only ...

Why shouldn't the U.S. Government be the No. 1 protector of Americans in cyberspace? After all, the government is already my primary protector against a North Korean missile launch, attacks by the Bin Laden-inspired and the meth dealers across town. So why not also make the government our front line of protection against cyberthreats?

I am of two minds regarding the Stop Online Privacy Act (SOPA), currently winding its way through the U.S. Congress. I passionately love SOPA and hate it just as much, both at the same time.

Is your company ready for the days -- and potentially weeks -- when most of your employees have to get their jobs done from home because of illness? And those remaining want to work at home so they, too, don't fall ill?