encryption in comment and analysis
How to secure your on-the-go data
Comment This can take many forms, from identity management and data loss prevention (DLP) tools to full-disk encryption. By using full-disk encryption for laptops, mobile phones and other forms of portable... [30 Jul 2009]
NHS network: Time to get secure
Comment Although NHS trusts and GP surgeries are connecting to N3 and making good use of it with some of the national applications, many GPs are storing PID in computers in their surgeries on insecure networks, and transmitting it across N3... [07 Jul 2009]
When IT security becomes a gothic horror story
Comment Technologies mentioned in the research as being of particular interest include identity and access management, email security, and monitoring and filtering, with biometrics and data encryption. The RSA Conference in San... [21 Apr 2009]
Inbox: Underground safe from mobile chatter
Comment Encryption is key A silicon.com exclusive got readers talking this week, with (most) responses extremely thankful that trials of mobile connectivity on the London Underground failed to lift off. Readers also found time... [23 Mar 2009]
Securing your business - what to invest in
Comment One example is Barclays, which is rolling out enterprise-wide encryption and installing key management servers at its datacentres worldwide. Data breaches have undoubtedly focused minds within many public and private... [11 Feb 2009]
Data leaks highlight need for content security
Comment It may sometimes appear that the regulators are adopting a knee-jerk response to high profile leaks; British data protection lawyers joke that the UK Data Commissioner has issued a directive that data stored on laptops should be... [11 Dec 2008]
Legal Eye: Do we need GPLv3?
Comment For instance, legislation prohibiting free software such as the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and the European Copyright Directive make it a crime to write or share software that can break digital rights management... [15 Oct 2008]
Bruce Schneier
AS Profile Well known for past achievements such as designing the popular Blowfish and Twofish encryption algorithms, he tackles in his latest book Beyond Fear the thorny problem of security from the small to the large - including... [07 Oct 2008]
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]
Inbox: iPhone ad, red boxes, wi-fi piggybacking, sci-fi thinking
Comment Sometimes people like to share their internet to passers-by.however, there's no real safe way to do that - either you're open to anyone, or else you're locked down to either an encryption or a MAC address list. [04 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. Written in a coffee shop in Mountain View CA and dispatched... [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. Without revealing what I did or how and where I did it, I have to confess to having just done something... [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. In reality, good security requires fundamental organisational change, says Danny Bradbury [28 Mar 2008]
Dear silicon.com... green carrots, cloud nine chats, open source ponderings …
Comment Editor's choice silicon.com editor Steve Ranger flags up his picks on the site this week.¦ Legal Eye: Is encryption really the silver bullet? With the Easter weekend now a distant memory and all the chocolate eggs... [27 Mar 2008]
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