Risk Management with Stuart King and Duncan Hart
Recent Posts
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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
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 ...
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The Dreaded Flux?
01 Feb 2009 -
Innovation, Evolution and a big 'Hello'
27 Jan 2009 -
Atrophy, apathy and impotence
- Reed Elsevier 27 Jan 2009 -
A fresh face on an old blog
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Heartland Payment System - biggest ever data breach?
- Reed Elsevier 21 Jan 2009 -
Employees and online behaviour
- Reed Elsevier 20 Jan 2009 -
Web access policy and dictators
- Reed Elsevier 19 Jan 2009
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 ...
I'm really pleased to partner with Stuart King and enter the blogosphere at such an interesting information security time and with so much going on at the moment. Stuart mentioned freshening things ...
Events during January show that organisations are continuing to fail in all areas of Information Security. We've seen the massive credit card data breach of Heartland in the States, the Royal Navy ...
It's time to give this blog a bit of an overhaul and freshen it up.Duncan Hart, a good aquaintance of mine, has agreed to partner up and will shortly begin making his own contributions. Duncan will ...
I do hope the good guys at Heartland Payment Systems are today downloading and reading through an interesting document entitled "Your business data has been compromised. Now What?" The author of ...
The fact that a company's own employees pose a greater threat to security than hackers has now become widely recognised within the industry. Some cynics might argue that the escalation of this ...
There are a few things that annoy me: impoliteness, petty bureaucracy, Chris Moyles, BT customer "service", the price of cinema popcorn, the smell of fast food on public transport, drivers who ...
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Don't lay all the blame for insecure systems on the developers
- Reed Elsevier 14 Jan 2009 -
In the cloud or up the spout
- Reed Elsevier 12 Jan 2009 -
Risk assessment and the Nu M8 Child Tracker
- Reed Elsevier 07 Jan 2009 -
Internet censorship - should we have more of it?
- Reed Elsevier 06 Jan 2009 -
Licence to practice information security?
- Reed Elsevier 05 Jan 2009
It's good to see the subject of secure development, and in particular the most serious coding issues that crop up within websites, making the mainstream news. See Dangerous coding errors revealed ...
There is an inevitable moment in married life where the wife will ask of her husband the question "what were the best moments of your life so far?" The expected and acceptable responses are well ...
A few weeks ago I allowed my 7 year old daughter to walk the last 400 yards from the bottom of the road to the school gate by herself. Off she trotted, full of her own independence, and away she ...
I'm currently escaping the bitter cold of the UK over in Abu Dhabi., where I'm spending a couple of days visiting the Reed Exhibitions regional office. The UAE censors it's populations' use of the ...
Here in the UK, you need a licence to drive a car, or watch television. You also need a licence to go fishing. You don't need a licence to have a child - unless you want to adopt or foster somebody ...