Avivah Litan, information and security analyst at research firm Gartner, talks about the effectiveness of chip and pin bank card technology in combating fraud and the risks that may result from the introduction of faster payments.
Banks are used to arms races. In the 1960s and 1970s the easiest way to for thieves to get hold of a bank's money was to turn up in person at branches with a gun and demand cash. So banks placed their workers behind bulletproof glass. This forced the thieves on to the roads where the vans transporting cash became the main target. When the vans themselves were armoured it was the man walking from the van to the bank who became the target, he too was armoured.
The Home Office is considering radical plans to develop a centralised surveillance system to track in real-time every kind of electronic activity undertaken by citizens.
The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has been granted new powers to impose fines on organisations that lose personal data, following the amendment of the Criminal Justice and Immigration Act.
Penetration testing now has its own not-for-profit standards-based accreditation organisation in Crest, the Council of Registered Ethical Security Testers. David King, Head of Information and Risk Management at Aviva talks about the benefits Crest will bring to the industry.
Detective Superintendent Charlie McMurdie of the Metropolitan Police E-Crime Project discusses progress towards establishing a national e-crime unit for the UK and her confidence that the project will soon get the go-ahead.