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Risk Management with Stuart King and Duncan Hart
Dealing with the operational challenges of information security and risk management.
February 2009
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McKinnon step closer to extradition
- Reed Elsevier 26 Feb 2009 -
Rats coming out of the sewer
- Reed Elsevier 24 Feb 2009 -
Joined-up security can save you money
- Reed Elsevier 23 Feb 2009
British computer hacker Gary McKinnon has lost the latest round of his battle against extradition to the US.See http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7912538.stmMore here: ...
More than two years ago I mentioned on this blog the fact that large networks are likely hosting a variety of nasty things we will probably never become aware of. This is more than just speculation ...
A blog from Colin Beveridge caught my eye and touched a nerve. Colin says:We need a holistic approach to information security that properly encompasses the social/ cultural aspects, rather than the ...
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When cloud computing goes wrong
23 Feb 2009 -
A lesson in low tech for the CIA
- Reed Elsevier 17 Feb 2009 -
Public Sector vs Private Sector. Who does security better? Part 4
16 Feb 2009 -
Public Sector vs Private Sector. Who does security better? Part 3
- Reed Elsevier 12 Feb 2009 -
Public vs Private Sector - which does security better?
11 Feb 2009 -
Twits on Twitter
- Reed Elsevier 10 Feb 2009 -
Public Sector vs Private Sector. Who does security better?
- Reed Elsevier 09 Feb 2009
I'm a fan of cloud computing based applications and services, in fact I use them a lot to organise a whole raft of things I do and need to get done. But at the same time I really do understand that ...
A story in todays Times newspaper about the supposed secret use by the CIA of an airbase in Pakistan has an interesting Information Security angle. In particular because it appears that supporting ...
You're hilarious! A Ford Anglia? Actually, I'm a Morris Minor Series II enthusiast. What more could you want than a British Classic through-and-through that has been exported internationally and ...
Let's stick to the facts. The public sector has more data breaches. In the six months up to April 2008 there were 62 serious incidents in the public sector against 28 in the private sector (as ...
You've thrown down the gauntlet and I accept the challenge.... But let's put the problem into context first. Both private and public sector have had equally disastrous data breaches of late. From ...
Only one word really for US politician Peter Hoekstra on a secret visit to Baghdad, who then announced his arrival on Twitter. That word is ...
Mods against Rockers, Tom and Jerry, Batman versus The Joker....My partner in blogging and I have one more to add to that list. Duncan is standing up for the public sector, I'm on the side of the ...
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NCC Survey - Protecting Corporate Reputation and Brand
- Reed Elsevier 05 Feb 2009 -
Fraud through the roof?
04 Feb 2009 -
The power and complexity of botnets
- Reed Elsevier 03 Feb 2009 -
Soft leaders and hard managers
- Reed Elsevier 02 Feb 2009 -
The Dreaded Flux?
01 Feb 2009
I've been reading with interest the results of the National Computing Centre survey of 98 UK-based organisations entitled Protecting Corporate Reputation and Brand. You can download it here.Some of ...
Seems like David Lacey's first security forecast of 2009 (Fraud hits the roof) is already becoming clearly evident. The FT recently reported that UK corporate losses against publicly reported fraud ...
I had the privilege last week to hear an excellent presentation given by Bob Burls on the subject of Botnets. Bob presents an eye opening view over the power and complexity behind the botnet ...
Last Tuesday evening I went along to one of the regular Computer Weekly 500 Club meetings where Bruno Laquet, CIO of Corus, was giving an interesting talk on the theme of "influencing across the ...
A lot of my time this week has been taken up by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the non-profit group that oversees the Internet's addressing system. I've been ...