Security & Risk Management

 

 

 

The last few years have seen a revolution in how organizations collaborate and communicate. While email has a long heritage, it has only more recently become acknowledged as a business-critical tool, to the extent that many companies would lose financially if it were unavailable for more than a few hours. Meanwhile, voice-enabled messaging tools such as Skype and Yahoo! have revolutionized interpersonal communications; things are not stopping there, as illustrated by the rapid adoption of social networking technologies such as blogs and wikis. As these capabilities continue to erode traditional, paper-based mechanisms, electronic content in the form of email messages, customer orders, service requests and other documents, is increasingly being integrated up and down the value chain, both internally and externally. [More]

 

 

IT Security - are we getting what we deserve? [February 2007]

IT security can be a convoluted business. It seems to be quite straightforward on the surface - there's good guys and bad guys, and it's a case of keeping one from the other - but you don't need to scratch away much of the conceptual veneer to determine that the picture is more complex than that. [More]

 

 

While the spotlight of media attention often falls on external threats such as hackers, viruses, spyware and so on, it is well recognised in organisations that problems are far more likely to be caused by people working “on the inside,” potentially through malice but more likely due to foolishness or inadvertent error. Such risks need to be treated through a combination of technology deployment and policy implementation: while organisations are waking up to this, there is still some way to go to overcome past indifference and inactivity when presented with internal threats. [More]

 

 

You’ve probably heard the stories, there are several each year, of employees who are prepared to part with logon and password information for a free café latté or an Easter egg. This highlights that security of information systems is not just about technology, the human factor is important too, and one the obvious places in which security meets the user is authentication. This short report looks at some of the trends and developments in this area based on the findings of an online research study during which information and insights were gathered from 1,464 respondents, primarily IT professionals. [More]

 

With organisations being so dependent on the electronic capture, storage and retrieval of increasing amounts of information, how well are they coping with modern-day requirements? [More]