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Security policy and user awareness

• Security Think Tank: Educate, enforce policy and monitor to ensure messaging security

  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

• Security Think Tank: Ensure incident response in the face of inevitable messaging leaks

  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

• Security Think Tank: Approaches to effective web security

  What are the main web security challenges for organisations and how are they best addressed?  Continue Reading

• Dmarc email validation – we're doing it all wrong

  Dmarc is a hugely important way to reduce email fraud – just ask HMRC – but it also makes email marketing campaigns far more effective  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Starter for 10 in the web security challenge

  What are the main web security challenges for organisations and how are they best addressed?  Continue Reading

• Is it time to stop blaming organisations for being breached?

  The IT security industry needs to look at itself and its practices before blaming organisations that have been hit by cyber attacks  Continue Reading

• Max Schrems’s mass surveillance complaint knocked back another year or two by Irish judge

  Irish data protection commissioner Helen Dixon has neatly avoided having to deal with the US surveillance of Facebook users in Europe by referring a complaint by Austrian lawyer Max Schrems to the European Court of Justice  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Use a combination of approaches to create cyber safe work environments

  What are the best security controls to ensure a safe working environment where employees do not have the unfair pressure of being the first line of cyber defence?  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Five security controls to keep employees out of cyber firing line

  What are the best security controls to ensure a safe working environment where employees do not have the unfair pressure of being the first line of cyber defence?  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Use the work environment to educate on cyber security

  What are the best security controls to ensure a safe working environment where employees do not have the unfair pressure of being the first line of cyber defence?  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Are employees cyber pawns or cyber heroes?

  What are the best security controls to ensure a safe working environment where employees do not have the unfair pressure of being the first line of cyber defence?  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Employees should only have to worry about social engineering

  What are the best security controls to ensure a safe working environment where employees do not have the unfair pressure of being the first line of cyber defence?  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Is a ‘cyber-safe working environment’ a reasonable target?

  What are the best security controls to ensure a safe working environment where employees do not have the unfair pressure of being the first line of cyber defence?  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Employees are in the cyber attack firing line, so educate them well

  What are the best security controls to ensure a safe working environment where employees do not have the unfair pressure of being the first line of cyber defence?  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: People are part of security, but should not be key element

  What are the best security controls to ensure a safe working environment where employees do not have the unfair pressure of being the first line of cyber defence?  Continue Reading