David Laceys IT Security Blog
March 2009
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Ethical hacking - a good or bad term?
29 Mar 2009 -
Better standards for standards please
25 Mar 2009 -
Real-world security architectures
23 Mar 2009
Last week's British Computer Society Information Security Conference reopened a debate about the use of the term "Ethical Hacking". A year ago, the BCS Security Forum issued a statement ...
Yesterday's IT Governance Watch event in London, organized by the UK Cyber Security KTN and The National Computing Centre, was an interesting attempt to address the seemingly paradoxical concept of ...
One of the things that characterise a maturing business practice is the proliferation of architectures, models and frameworks that begin to proliferate. This phenomenon has clearly caught up with ...
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Yes we can
18 Mar 2009 -
Lies, damned lies and statistics
16 Mar 2009 -
Keep away from the Dark
16 Mar 2009 -
Preparing for Life in the Fast Lane
09 Mar 2009 -
Apocalypse soon?
04 Mar 2009
I'm generally reluctant to criticize colleagues, but occasionally they come up enough drivel to spur me into action. I was disappointed, to say the least, to read that Stuart King, a kindred spirit ...
A recent email from Karen Lawrence Öqvist mentioned the differences in how we measure statistics such as the odds of dying in a road crash or a plane crash. I had suggested in my book "Managing the ...
Friday's BBC "Click" technology program contained a demonstration of a 20,000 strong botnet. Was this legal? Was it ethical? And was it a sensible idea? These are important questions that need to ...
Last week I contributed to an ISSA-UK expert panel reviewing a recent UK Government report on plans for "Digital Britain", the digital knowledge economy that will form the heart of our future ...
Yesterday's ISC2 Security Leadership Seminar in London reflected a spectrum of contemporary thinking on the subject of information security, as well as highlighting some of the more extreme risks ...