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Government's Use of Secure File Transfer Could Help Prevent Embarrassing Data Leaks
posted on 26/06/2009
Over the past decade, the UK Government has increasingly used online technology to deliver and improve public services, whilst seeking to limit public spending. This strategy has enabled many departments to provide a wider range of services in many more formats, assisting people to access Government more easily and effectively. However, there have been some unwelcome consequences, as witnessed by the spate of high profile Government data losses a... [more]
How to balance the security need to monitor employees activities whilst respecting their rights to privacy
posted on 10/06/2009
Privacy is considered a human right in Europe and to this extent organisations have focused on protecting the privacy of their customers’ data. However, there’s a blurring of lines between monitoring employee’s activities to make sure that the organisation is secure, with the employees perception of a 'right to privacy'. To ensure the security of personal data, organisations have grasped the need to manage the people within the organisation b... [more]
Why You Must Close the Security Hole of Privileged and Shared Accounts
posted on 28/05/2009
One only has to consider the case of Jérôme Kerviel, the rogue trader at French bank Société Générale, who used multiple shared passwords and accounts to execute fraudulent trades, to appreciate the risks shared account logons pose to the modern organisation. Kerviel’s actions cost the bank €4.9bn and serious ramifications were felt across the global financial markets. The City of San Francisco found itself in a similar situation last year wh... [more]
Improper risk assessment can have disastrous consequences
posted on 28/04/2009
With all the doom and gloom of the past few months and billions of whatever currency you like being poured into the economy I have to report on a ray of hope. I think my son may have hit on the solution completely inadvertently. He’s not a renowned economist, just an honest, hard working car mechanic. However having written off the fifth car in the last three years, although credit where it’s due, this time it was his fiancée that managed it,... [more]
Mobility jeopardises business security
posted on 09/04/2009
The demands of the modern workforce are changing rapidly. It’s now a mobile business world, laptops now outsell desktops, wireless is outpacing wired and your average smartphone can do almost anything. Not so long ago - when businesses were solely run out of an office - it was easy for employers to keep track of their staff and know that everything from the stationary to their confidential information was kept under one roof. Nowadays, sta... [more]
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