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Encryption: Don’t forget your keys
posted on 11/04/2008
The protection of sensitive data is one of the most critical concerns for organisations and their customers. Coupled with growing regulatory and governance pressures, this is forcing businesses to protect the integrity, privacy and security of information under their control more than ever before. While this is a complex challenge that requires both policy and technology, cryptography is emerging as the foundation for enterprise data protect... [more]
Debunking misconceptions over smart cards
posted on 08/04/2008
The potential benefits for any large organisation of using smart card technologies are immense, encompassing reduced security risk exposure, increased efficiency, improved compliance and better access to services for all. Despite these benefits, misconceptions over smart cards mean they are still not being embraced as widely as they should. But what are these myths and should businesses be genuinely concerned? Myth 1 - Smart card technology is... [more]
Coping with the unseen greynet threat
posted on 06/04/2008
Instant messaging (IM) applications have been around since the early 70s, but it was the introduction of programs such as ICQ and AOL Instant Messenger in the late 90s that brought IM into the mainstream. Since then real-time communications has grown considerably from a handful of companies offering IM networks, to over six hundred real-time communication applications. However, despite the fact that research shows that IM is the vector for five n... [more]
What firewalls do and don’t do
posted on 27/03/2008
Over the last few years, security threats to companies have grown and altered dramatically and so have the defences. Traditional firewalls, installed over three years ago, are often not best suited for current threats and don’t protect against a number of newer threats. What firewalls do A firewall is a system designed to prevent unauthorised access to or from a private computer network. Firewalls are frequently used to prevent unauthorised... [more]
European Businesses need to take responsibility for the security of their data
posted on 13/03/2008
In the last year the issues around data loss and security have rapidly moved into the public arena. The Data Protection Act was introduced in 1998 to provide businesses with a set of guidelines to ensure that data is handled safely and securely. Covering everything from data processing to security, the Data Protection Act is extremely far reaching and has been interpreted and implemented in a variety of different ways by each country within the ... [more]
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