November 21, 2009

The fight for Cybersecurity alias Cyberwarfare Budgets

David Lacey's blog on The New Art of Warfare gave me pause for thought. I looked at it in the context of the proliferation of groups looking at cybersecurity, the Interception Modernisation Programme, scare stories about the Critical National Infrastructure and the Chinese People's Cybermilitia. Then the penny dropped.

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Posted by Philip Virgo on November 21, 2009 7:01 PM |
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November 17, 2009

A Database too Far: NICE but NASTY

I have just received an FIPR alert on the NICE (National Instute for Clinical Excellence) consultation on a proposed database to help prevent injuries to children. Last week I attended a presentation of the restructuring of the MOSAIC service  

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An implosion of trust and confidence?

Yesterday, at the annual Get Safe On-line conference, it was good to see the commercial sponsors talking of the direct business benefit they were getting from being seen to take the security of their customers seriously. This also came through in the annual GSOL survey which showed buyers increasingly focussing their purchases on trusted websites.  

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November 16, 2009

Four strikes before the E-Death penalty

No this is not what happens to the household whose teenagers download material that they cannot buy. It is what happens when the unemployed respond to an on-line advert offering them the opportunity to work from home helping forward overseas payments. 

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November 12, 2009

From Toxic Liability to Strategic Asset: Unlocking the Value of Information

There has been much debate on "The Value of Information" and on responsibilities for protecting personal data. Last week the Audit Commission released a report on the need to address the problems of quality in public sector information: "Nothing but the Truth". Today the Information Society Alliance (EURIM) released a one page summary for political audiences on the need to treat information as an asset in order to prevent it from turning into a liability.

 

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November 11, 2009

Who is the biggest threat to your privacy? Government, Google or the Gossip next door?

We have a very muddled and muddied set of debates over privacy, security and data sharing. It can be summarised as  "I want more efficient joined up services from government but I don't want my information used by bureaucratic snoopers". Meanwhile the latest jobsworth excuse for poor or non-existent service is "Sorry can't do that because of Data Protection".

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November 9, 2009

Support the future against the past

The Department for Culture Media and Sport has today issued a consultation on product placement on television.  The consultation runs for two months and closes on Friday 8 January 2010. I deserves thorugh support from all who wish the UK to retain a content creation industry - for all the reason I gave when I blogged on the previous, potential disastrous, to ban product placement as opposed to using the leeway in the AVMS Directive.   
 

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November 6, 2009

Using the Internet to put "Hope" into Africa

Next week I will be blogging again on the competition being run by the Information Society Alliance, EURIM, for those capable of using multi-media to explain complex messages to politicians. In the meantime I been sent details of a rather simpler on-line art competition where you can all be judges and then bid to buy the entries you like, whether they win or not. 

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November 5, 2009

The power of government misinformation: be very afraid

"The still calm voice that drives the strongest of men to panic". Today the Audit Commission  launched a discussion paper "Nothing but the Truth" to start "a discussion on how to ensure that data on local public services is fit for purpose". Read it. Think. Then be afraid. Because some of the data on the files of central government is much worse.

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November 3, 2009

Towards realistic regulatory frameworks for Identity

Over the past year the Information Society Alliance (EURIM) has been trying to structure a group to look at Identity Governance: the professional and regulatory frameworks that should govern Identity Management systems and those who run them.

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