cma in comment and analysis
Are we losing the security war?
Comment C is for CMA Five years ago, hopes were high that cyber crime could be cracked. Now security experts admit traditional approaches can't keep pace with the growth in malware. What can be done to turn the tide, asks Simon Moores. [29 Apr 2008]
Box-tickers risk serious data breaches
Comment C is for CMA Life would be simple if curing security headaches were just a matter of buying some new technology. In reality, good security requires fundamental organisational change, says Danny Bradbury [28 Mar 2008]
How to detect data leaks
Comment C is for CMA Data leaks are a growing problem. Yet most firms don't know how sensitive data is getting out, let alone how to stop it. Tools exist to shore up those vulnerabilities, says Anthony Plewes. [19 Mar 2008]
Malice, misuse, mistake - security dangers pile up
Comment C is for CMA Putting a ring of steel around corporate data is only part of the answer. The real security threats may actually lie uncomfortably close to home, argues Stewart Baines. Hardly a week passes without another big data breach - typically... [10 Mar 2008]
Data encryption brought into focus by HMRC
Comment C is for CMA The issue of data encryption has been brought into sharp focus recently with the HMRC data loss fiasco. Paul Bentham explains why it is important government staff adhere to guidelines around it. [21 Dec 2007]
Editor's Blog: Missing data, missing brains
Comment C is for CMA The fallout from the loss of sensitive data held by Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs on 25 million people is only just beginning to be felt. From my point of view, it's rare indeed that the subject of two silicon.com campaigns... [21 Nov 2007]
Good and bad year for comms
AS Analysis Cisco keeps the internet running," said Carolyn Kimber, a panellist from comms user group CMA. The striking absence of the heads of some of the biggest organisations in comms continues in 2007. But this area of technology still makes its presence... [12 Oct 2007]
Editor's Blog: Olympics as tech showcase?
Comment At the same CMA event, which no longer resembles the stormy sea-front conference I used to attend in the 90s in Brighton, the annual CMA Communications Market survey of 350-plus of its members is being presented. [07 Feb 2007]
Leader: Unjust extradition laws must be amended
Leader C is for CMA In this post-Enron era the prosecution and punishment of perpetrators of white collar crime and corporate fraud is something still high on the agenda for the US authorities. High-profile sentences include 25 years for former WorldCom... [22 Nov 2006]
Leader: Phishers raise their game
Leader C is for CMA This morning news broke that the Nationwide building society had suffered the theft of a laptop which contained customer account information. The Financial Services Authority is currently investigating. [14 Nov 2006]
Leader: Give IT more than 10 minutes
Leader The CMA revision apparently less so. Today saw the latest MP exercise their right to a Ten Minute Bill ruling in order to get an IT issue onto the parliamentary agenda. In this case it was the issue of whether ISPs should block access to websites... [26 Oct 2005]
Ofcom: The superfluous super-regulator?
Comment According to David Harrington, director general of the telecoms lobby group CMA, this structure is a disaster waiting to happen. Since media and entertainment and the means of delivering them began to converge, the need to bring together the... [14 Dec 2000]
Government, mismanagement and the telco: A market in disarray
Comment CMA has previously pointed to a disparity between the public utterances of BT and those of Oftel on this very subject. The above are extracts from 'Coalface', to be published in the October issue of Newsline, the journal of the UK's leading... [02 Oct 2000]
A holy trinity of acronyms
Comment The Telecoms Managers Association, which renamed itself the Communications Managers Association (CMA) this week, conducted a poll of over 400 senior comms professionals to garner their opinions of broadband rollout in the UK. [29 Sep 2000]
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