David Laceys IT Security Blog
November 2011
-
A small step for the UK Government
29 Nov 2011 -
The Future is in fashion
24 Nov 2011 -
Six myths of risk assessment
24 Nov 2011
Lots of people, even my neighbours and relatives, are asking me what I think about the UK Government's new National Cybersecurity Strategy. It certainly attracted a fair bit of surprising degree of ...
As a regular conference speaker I'm always intrigued by which topics are in fashion and why. A few years ago it was outsourcing and cloud computing. More recently it's been the human factor. Lately ...
I find it surprising that after more than 30 years of experimentation of risk assessment, many security practitioners continue to apply risk assessment in such a non-intuitive way. There seem to be ...
-
What tangled webs we weave
18 Nov 2011 -
Security for small businesses
08 Nov 2011 -
Preaching in a security wilderness
05 Nov 2011
Twenty years ago I drafted a document that was intended to reduce the effort required in information security management. Two decades later it has produced the opposite effect. That document was ...
One of my January forecasts for 2011 was that the need to encourage small and medium enterprises to implement security would finally be tackled. Judging by the current amount of activity in this ...
Last week I was fortunate to be speaking at Cyprus Infosec 2011. It was a first class event with intelligent speakers, great debates and a smart audience. But yet again I seem to be the only ...