David Laceys IT Security Blog
December 2006
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Security Forecasts for 2007
29 Dec 2006 -
People, Process or Technology - Which hits the spot?
27 Dec 2006 -
Security Achieves a New Level of Maturity
23 Dec 2006
It’s getting to that time of the Season when many of us look ahead to a New Year with mixed emotions of hope, fear, uncertainty or just plain boredom. What will 2007 bring? Will it be more of same? ...
Last week I gave a presentation on the subject of “Managing the Human Dimension” to Iain Sutherland’s excellent Independent Information Security Group. It got me thinking about the balance between ...
Looking back over 2006 I have to say that although it’s been largely more-of-the-same for many IT Security practitioners, there's undoubtedly been a significant shift in the perception of other ...
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ID Cards and the Perils of Identity Management
22 Dec 2006 -
A Worrying Trend in Malware
20 Dec 2006 -
Truth, Lies and Perception
19 Dec 2006 -
The Strengths and Weaknesses of Data Mining
17 Dec 2006 -
Digital Rights Management – Must Try Harder
15 Dec 2006 -
Identity Management in a Virtual World
14 Dec 2006 -
Neuro-Linguistic Programming – Snake Oil or Powerful Management Tool?
13 Dec 2006
So the Home Office has decided to scale back its controversial plans for National ID Card Programme. Instead of a single, clean database generated from scratch, it will now build on three existing ...
Techworld reports a disturbing trend in the sophistication of malware. The problem is that it's declining. Alexander Gostev, Head of Kaspersky Lab, points out that higher volumes of low-quality ...
The highlight of yesterday’s 17th Hewlett-Packard Colloquium at Royal Holloway University of London was an excellent talk by Ian Curry, CISO of Reuters, which gave a fascinating insight into what ...
Bruce Schneier’s blog drew my attention to a recent report on the limits of predictive data mining for counterterrorism, published by the Cato Institute, a libertarian public policy research ...
So Bill Gates has also discovered that Digital Rights Management “is not where it should be” according to reports from a group of influential bloggers he invited to Redmond. ”We don't have the ...
I was highly impressed with the company and the discussion at a CIO dinner in London last night. A main topic of conversation was Second Life, the new virtual reality world that seems to have ...
For some years I’ve been observing the quiet infiltration of Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) into many respectable professions. I’m not an expert on NLP but it seems to me to be a rather bizarre ...
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Managing Security Perception
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It's time to sort out our Information Management
11 Dec 2006 -
Dirty tricks in the Name of Security
10 Dec 2006 -
What's Your Risk Appetite?
09 Dec 2006 -
Entering the Dark World of Cyber Crime
08 Dec 2006
The need to manage perception seems to be a hot topic these days. Stuart King’s blog posting earlier this month got me thinking about the importance of personal perception. But managing perception ...
I’ve been pointing out for some time that professional Information Management has largely collapsed in most organizations. It’s to be expected of course, following the radical changes in ...
Last week’s $14.5 million settlement payment by Hewlett-Packard to California’s top prosecutor may have diffused a crisis. But it leaves many question marks about the ethics of big companies, the ...
One of my colleagues drew my attention to a recent posting on the GetSafeOnline blog pointing out the lack of IT security training at MI6. In the new James Bond film, Casino Royale, a Swiss banker ...
We should all be concerned about the growing criminalization of hacking, highlighted in a new, updated report by McAfee on Organised Crime and the Internet. This publication confirms a disturbing ...