Malware spillover
Following the news a while ago that some Apple iPods had been shipped complete with a malware infection comes the story that your satnav system may also be a risk. TomTom has allegedly shipped devices...
View ArticleIn the UK, it’s National Identity Fraud Prevention Week!
Apparently, we’re today kicking off the UK National Identity Fraud Prevention Week – and research for RSA reveals wide-spread disbelief (as in, 90% of Britons) that their personal data are safe with...
View ArticleProsecuting directors for information security failures
I’ve been of the view, for some time, that effective corporate information security will only come to pass when company directors are prosecuted, fined and jailed for failures to implement and maintain...
View ArticleTake Data Protection Seriously, Please
I did a presentation earlier this week at NITES, in Ireland. My topic was data protection and governance. I took the opportunity to make a number of linked points: We already have data protection...
View ArticlePassword Security Dilemma
Commonly accepted best practice on password security is that passwords should be complex, changed frequently and never written down. Password complexity (8 alphanumeric characters, case sensitivity...
View ArticleSharePoint Governance
The idea of applying the governance concept to the deployment and use of SharePoint within organisations does, at one level, seem odd- it seems a very detailed level for the application of concept...
View ArticleISO27001 – the Information Security Framework of the future
I agree entirely with John Verry’s description of today’s drivers for the adoption of ISO27001, which we expect to become more widely adopted over the next 15 years than ISO9001 is today (there are...
View ArticleDo you need a physical office in order to ISO/IEC 27001 certification?
No. The standard was written to support organisations of all sizes, all types and in all sectors. And as it is increasingly normal for organisations to be largely or entirely home-based, accessing...
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