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Application security and coding requirements

• Security Think Tank: Automating basic security tasks

  How can organisations evolve their security operations teams to do more automation of basic tasks and cope with dynamic IT environments?  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Encourage employees to use an approved messaging app

  What criteria should organisations use to assess the security of smartphone messaging apps and how can they ensure only approved apps are used by employees?  Continue Reading

• Gary McKinnon: Why Lauri Love should be spared the nightmare of extradition

  Computer activist Lauri Love should be spared a life sentence in a US jail, says former hacker Gary McKinnon  Continue Reading

• Managing open-source security: a legal perspective

  Open-source software is being used more widely than ever – but do IT leaders understand the legal risks?  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Allocate maintenance processes to each piece of key software

  What strategies can companies adopt to help keep up with and deal with the huge volume of software updates they are facing?  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Using vulnerability management to support the patching process

  What strategies can companies adopt to deal with the huge volume of software updates they are facing?  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Five strategies for dealing with software security updates

  What strategies can companies adopt to keep up with, and deal with, the huge volume of software updates they face?  Continue Reading

• The problem with passwords: how to make it easier for employees to stay secure

  An organisation’s IT security can be compromised if staff do not follow a strict policy of using strong passwords to access internal systems  Continue Reading

• Are cloud users worrying about nothing when it comes to data sovereignty?

  With the upheaval surrounding the EU-US Privacy Shield, Clive Longbottom takes a closer look at the issue of sovereignty  Continue Reading

• When a slowdown in IT budgets is a good thing

  IT budgets will grow at their slowest rate for four years in 2016, yet companies are spending more on digital technology  Continue Reading

• Saving Bletchley Park: The women of Station X

  Sue Black recalls her first experience of Bletchley Park and the women who worked there, inspiring a campaign to save the home of the WW2 codebreakers  Continue Reading

• Network security systems – dedicated or multifunction?

  For small and medium-sized businesses looking to secure their networks, multifunction security systems are a better option than best-of-breed technology  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Aim for win-win in SecDevOps

  How can development, operations and security teams collaborate around change to ensure security is maintained and even improved?  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Cyber security should be a pillar of any business plan

  How can development, operations and security teams collaborate around change to ensure security is maintained and even improved?  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Involve all stakeholders to ensure smooth, secure change

  How can development, operations and security teams collaborate around change to ensure security is maintained and even improved?  Continue Reading