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David Laceys IT Security Blog
Information security expert David Lacey discussed the latest ideas, best practices, and business issues associated with managing security.
April 2008
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Ray Stanton and Bruce Schneier interviews
30 Apr 2008 -
Real hackers stay close to the action
29 Apr 2008 -
Security Software as a Service
28 Apr 2008
Just publishing on the Computer Weekly Web site are a couple of interviews I conducted last week at Infosecurity with Bruce Scheier and Ray Stanton, BT's Global Head of BT's Business Continuity, ...
One of the more pleasant highlights from last week’s Infosecurity was having an excellent dinner with the IOActive team, an interesting Seattle based security services company. I was particularly ...
Demand for software as a service (SaaS) has been steadily growing in recent years, ever since Salesforce.com seduced large organisations into taking it seriously. Security SaaS has also become a ...
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Can we have more testing please
28 Apr 2008 -
Navigating the Security Conference Circuit
27 Apr 2008 -
Infosecurity Highlights
25 Apr 2008 -
Infosecurity Europe 2008
21 Apr 2008 -
Centralisation – Does it Really Help Security?
19 Apr 2008 -
What not to do about Social Networking
17 Apr 2008 -
The Future of Intellectual Property
15 Apr 2008
After suffering five failures of brand new electrical goods this year, after very few in previous decades, I’m beginning to get the impression that there are serious flaws in the design and ...
It’s always a problem organising an information security conference, as there are so many competing events that might clash with yours. I had a similar problem last week with invitations to events ...
I’m just getting back to normal after 3 days and nights of intensive networking at Infosecurity Europe. I was a great event, with excellent people, many new stands and slightly edgier ...
It will be very interesting to see what’s new at Infosecurity Europe this year. It starts tomorrow and continues through three days of intensive networking, presentations, lunches, receptions and ...
According to Computer Weekly, Jesper Frederiksen of Google will be explaining at next week's Infosec Europe 2008 conference that centralising critical applications, services and processes is the ...
Computer Weekly has just published an article setting out some of my views on social networking in advance of next week’s Infosec Europe 2008 event in London, when I’ll be speaking on “Locking down ...
It’s interesting to speculate on the future of intellectual property. Will open source collaboration and peer-to-peer sharing lead to a world where information becomes a free resource? Or will ...
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Malware Gets Personal
11 Apr 2008 -
The Next Manhattan Project
10 Apr 2008 -
Nato Cyberdefences
07 Apr 2008 -
Anti-Phorm Petition Climbs the Charts
07 Apr 2008 -
Crisis Management is Getting Harder
03 Apr 2008
Symantec’s latest Internet Security Threat Report shows what looks suspiciously like exponential growth in detected malware threats. More worryingly there is a clear trend towards targeting of ...
The keynote addresses at RSA conferences are mainly vendor marketing pitches. But it’s worth taking a listen to Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff’s talk at this week’s RSA conference in ...
Back in 1999 I suggested that the Electronic Pearl Harbour would not happen until 2006. In fact it might have happened in 2007. The unprecedented cyber attack on Estonia last year certainly appears ...
A petition requesting the Prime Minister to investigate the Phorm technology has reached the Top Ten the 10 Downing Street web site, attracting 10,000 signatures in the first two days. In with a ...
Yesterday I was speaking at Reed’ Exhibition's excellent Business Continuity Conference at London Excel. The subject of my talk was “Why crisis exercises don’t work”. There was a touch of ...