Opinion Articles

Professional monitor in association with (ISC)2: Infosec professionals need to work with law enforcement

Victoria Baines April 22, 2013

Collaboration between infosec professionals and law enforcement agencies is vital, says Victoria Baines, the European Cybercrime Centre's strategy and prevention chief.
 

Lock down your Macs

April 22, 2013

Pay attention to the Macs in your office, especially if they are used by people unaware of the risks they present.
 

Don't judge potential and existing employees through automated analysis

April 22, 2013

Neither automated analysis, nor the manual reading of Twitter posts, is a useful practice for HR to engage in.
 

Professional monitor in association with (ISC)2: Women in Security

February 20, 2013

Women in Security, recently launched by (ISC)2's London chapter, is actively encouraging women to join the profession and take on those roles for which they are often overlooked.
 

The trouble with re-using passwords

February 20, 2013

Password re-use, not to mention default and blank passwords, can bring your whole network to its knees.
 

Dual-use technology isn't all bad

February 20, 2013

We shouldn't let the potential misuse of a product in the wrong hands blind us to its benefits in the right ones.
 

Professional monitor in association with (ISC)2: Convergence of physical and IT security

Eduard Emde January 07, 2013

The convergence of physical and IT security calls for infosec practitioners to adopt 'a design principle', says Eduard Emde, president of professional body ASIS International.
 

The threat of network tunnelling to businesses

January 07, 2013

Sensitive data can be tunnelled out of your network in many ways. Fortunately, there are just as many ways to stop it.
 

BMWs: Gone in 60 keystrokes

January 07, 2013

The vulnerability of BMWs to 'no key' theft is a case study in what happens if the lessons of IT security are ignored.
 

Professional monitor in association with (ISC)2: Global Information Security Workforce Study

Richard Nealon October 23, 2012

Richard Nealon, information security assurance manager and co-chairman of the (ISC)2 EMEA Advisory Board, explains why the organisation's Workforce Study is so important.
 

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DDoS and downtime: Considerations for risk management

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Ponemon 2012 Global Encryption Trends Study

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