encryption data in comment and analysis
Legal Eye: Who's to blame for data loss?
Comment Encryption is part of the solution again but equally individual responsibility must be accepted in exchange for the right to use a laptop - being mugged is a very different situation from leaving a laptop on display in... [17 Sep 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Bordering on stupidity
Comment After all, we only have to decide on the global standards for content, format, encryption, transmitters, receivers, scanners and so on, and we are home and dry. D is for Data privacy worries Written in a... [21 Aug 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Security scare
Comment Lock down all vital documentation with passwords and encryption - and the emphasis has to be on the vital. All the data on the drives is secure. Without revealing what I did or how and where I did it, I... [18 Jun 2008]
Vendors hype up compliance fears
Comment Is encryption really the silver bullet for security? Stuart Okin, associate partner at Accenture, says, "A lot of people turn to the ISO standards, and some of the detailed security standards around... [08 Apr 2008]
Box-tickers risk serious data breaches
Comment Is encryption really the silver bullet for security? Naturally, encryption is also a desirable preventative measure. Take unstructured data, for example - web pages, notes of... [28 Mar 2008]
Legal Eye: Is encryption really the silver bullet?
Comment High-profile data breaches and new laws have put encryption back in the limelight. Encryption scrambles data into meaningless text that cannot be interpreted without the... [27 Mar 2008]
The Naked CIO: Identity crisis
Comment We spent a day encrypting the data, sent the encryption key by person on a plane followed by the disk in the possession of another person. Like most IT directors, the Naked CIO is extremely careful with... [25 Feb 2008]
Dear silicon.com... Laptop losses, mobile ads, gas-guzzler charge, Vista backtrack…
Comment You would not run a laptop without antivirus or a personal firewall these days, so why in business have we been so slow to utilise the readily available encryption solutions out there? So this is normal:... [21 Feb 2008]
Dear silicon.com... Tax man's stamp bill, more lost data, unencrypted laptops…
Comment Encryption warning Encryption is all very well but, as we all know, what is encrypted can be decrypted by any determined hacker. Yet again data has been copied from a mainframe store... [24 Jan 2008]
Data encryption brought into focus by HMRC
Comment The issue of data encryption has been brought into sharp focus recently with the HMRC data loss fiasco. There is actually no explicit obligation under the Data... [21 Dec 2007]
Dear silicon.com... Vista uptake… HMRC blunder… iPhone too cool or too costly?
Comment Enrypting such data as it is being created or stored, for example on disk, tape, CD's --whatever -- with software encryption is low and hhits procesors hard. Editor's choice silicon.com editor Steve... [29 Nov 2007]
Editor's Blog: Missing data, missing brains
Comment And some encryption wouldn't have gone amiss, either, if they really needed to download it to a CD. The fallout from the loss of sensitive data held by Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs on 25 million... [21 Nov 2007]
Dear silicon.com... McInternet, FON in the UK, safety first, e-fraud...
Comment Too simplistic --- all you need to do if you are hiding something is use a plain language document that looks authentic as a key to another level of encryption - nesting encryption isn't anything new. [11 Oct 2007]
Leader: Why security threats don't have to be taxing
Leader The first ingredient was encryption and password protection. When the laptop was stolen it was, according to an HMRC spokesman, protected by "both a complex password and powerful encryption software". [09 Oct 2007]
Editor's Blog: Disclosing data breaches
Comment Encryption should be used more often. In a word: when an organisation, be it bank, retailer, government department or other, leaks some of your personal data, you should know about it. Some types of... [19 Jul 2007]
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