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Articles by Andrea Simmons

Balancing corporate needs with personal career aspirations

  • Opinion
  • Date: 16 July 2009
In the current conditions, employers are, rightly, pretty focused on performance and efficiency savings, and so it is important to be able to be strategic about balancing corporate needs with personal and future career aspirations

Security must be compatible with working practices

  • Opinion
  • Date: 15 April 2009
How can business ensure security technologies are aligned with work processes so that it is easy for end-users to do the right thing and not circumvent controls?

Security zone: prepare for quantum computing

  • In Depth
  • Date: 17 February 2009
Two developments with the potential to affect current uses of cryptography have emerged from study of the quantum behaviour of materials in the past 30 years.

Business case must be well-managed to balance cost and benefits of full disk encryption

  • In Depth
  • Date: 13 February 2009
Full disk encryption is expected to be the top security technology to be tested or adopted this year, what are the challenges and benefits likely to be? Business...

Managing the risk is essential when outsourcing security

  • Opinion
  • Date: 18 December 2008
Security as a service: how are the patterns of risk and reward changing? In seeking to provide a detailed response for the above questions, views...

BCS: Audit and educate

  • Opinion
  • Date: 07 May 2008
Attend the likes of InfoSec to ensure you are up to date with the latest products and then seek the advice of an expert consultant to help in cutting through the snake oil ...

Now is the time for action

  • Opinion
  • Date: 14 April 2008
The key to this topic for me was a quote from Home Secretary Jacqui Smith: "Individuals to have as much control and ownership of their own data as possible," writes Andrea Simmons, consultant forum manager, BCS Security Forum.

Social networking: corporate risks, individual risks

  • Opinion
  • Date: 30 January 2008
As a result of the strong human desire to connect, social networking websites have encouraged online behaviour where security and privacy are not always the first priority
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