The government is to hire internal and external legal experts, including a Queen's counsel, to try to block the publication of Gateway reviews of its ID cards programme - a scheme which ministers affirmed last week would go ahead at a cost of £5.4bn over 10 years.
With the recent Dispatches documentary on Channel 4 once again fanning the flames of anxiety around data theft, firms would do well to use the publicity as a wake-up call and turn the security spotlight on themselves.
I have always believed in 'doing' rather than self-monitoring, but reluctantly agree that the IT department needs to provide meaningful metrics on its activities. We have no shortage of things to measure, but how do we decide which are the most effective use of our time and energy?
IT directors need to consider changes both to business processes and the management of applications to roll out an identity management strategy successfully, delegates at last week's Burton Group Catalyst Conference in Barcelona were told.
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IT directors have been warned to review their data security after Indian police arrested a man based on evidence broadcast in a Channel 4 programme that investigated security failures in overseas call centres.