The UK's information commissioner, Richard Thomas, is warning chief executives of the vital importance of protecting staff and customers' personal information, following an "alarming number of security breaches" reported to his office in the past six months.
UK companies are spending three times as much on IT security than ever before, but the annual cost of breaches still runs into several billions of pounds, according to a government survey.
There has been a twelve-fold increase in the number of large UK companies finding unauthorised outsiders on their internal networks, a government report into security breaches will reveal at Infosecurity 2008 today (22 April).
Research from BT shows that 75% of UK employees either do not understand what is in their company's business continuity plan or do not know if their company has one.
Supply chain management company TDG expects to save up to £8,000 a month eliminating helpdesk calls to reset passwords after adding a single sign-on identity and access management appliance to the company network.
Let's put emotion aside when asked about national identity cards, and analyse the facts presented by the Identity and Passport Service as if someone had put forward a business case for the deployment of identity cards in your organisation, writes Raj Samani of the ISSA UK Chapter.