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RSS infosecISO/IEC 27001: The Future of Infosec Certification
White Paper Information security is about more, so much more than compliance, security and survival - it's about sharpening competitive edge for battle in the information-driven age by achieving certification and accreditation. [15 Aug 2009]
What Is a Vulnerability?
White Paper Culture: Finding vulnerabilities is a big part of the hacker/infosec culture. Security holes/bugs are faults, defects or programming errors. These may be exploited by unauthorised users to access computer networks or web... [01 May 2009]
Businesses - 'beware the risks of Digital Britain'
News He was speaking to silicon.com sister site ZDNet UK at the Infosec 2009 conference on Tuesday about the possible effects on business of universal broadband access, as proposed in the Digital Britain report being written... [29 Apr 2009]
War Gaming: CXO Interviews Intel's Senior InfoSec Manager
White Paper The presenter explains how Intel employees pretend to be the bad guys in exercises that help Intel IT discover security vulnerabilities. [02 Apr 2009]
Two-thirds of UK's top IT security jobs unfilled
News Sharon Wiltshire is chairman of the Infosec Training Paths & Competencies (ITPC) scheme at the Central Sponsor for Information Assurance, a unit within the Cabinet Office. An IT skills shortage has been blamed for... [03 Feb 2009]
Stark warning over cyber attacks on UK businesses
News That was the warning from Mark Oram, head of the threat and infosec knowledge department at the Centre for the Protection of National Infrastructure (CPNI) - the security service tasked with protecting key government and... [29 Oct 2008]
Are we losing the security war?
Comment I can't honestly remember how long Infosec has been running. A short cyber crime story on Al Jazeera TV on Sunday made me realise that this year's Infosec show in London had passed me by, almost unnoticed. [29 Apr 2008]
Police e-crime unit set for green light
News Speaking at the Infosec security show in London, The Metropolitan Police Service's detective superintendent Charlie McMurdie said: "I'm fairly convinced we'll get the required sum of £5.3m some way or the other. [25 Apr 2008]
Mobiles to come under attack from 'bad guys'
News Speaking to silicon.com at Infosec 2008 in London, former advisor to the White House on cyber security, Howard Schmidt, said: "[Mobile is] going to become a rich target area for the bad guys. Mobile devices are going to... [24 Apr 2008]
How Cisco IT Migrated to Stronger Firewall Protection for Large Sites
White Paper Cisco IT and Cisco Information Security (InfoSec) collaborated to design, deploy, and manage an advanced firewall solution as a critical first line of defense. Like other companies, Cisco Systems needs to connect its... [05 Mar 2008]
Automated Reporting Gives Microsoft IT Security Team Critical Data in Minutes
White Paper The IT Information Security (InfoSec) team at Microsoft is responsible for defending the software company's workstations from a variety of threats. In August 2006, the InfoSec team began deploying... [20 Jun 2007]
Techies plugging in and tuning out
News At this year's InfoSec conference, for instance, security experts talked up the 'insider threat' posed by staff using technology such as MP3 players in the workplace. The IT department is plugged in in more ways than one. [09 May 2007]
Editor's Blog: The green revolution and Everything 2.0
Comment My colleague Will Sturgeon last week made the point at the annual InfoSec show that we'll soon hear the term 'security 2.0'. I read this week that the former boss of wi-fi provider The Cloud has gone to a venture that... [03 May 2007]
Editor's Blog: Grey areas, honesty and naivety
Comment Some interesting goings on at InfoSec. The guys on the Clearswift stand haven't missed an opportunity to point out how lonely their closest rivals (both in industry terms and proximity on the show floor) have looked on... [26 Apr 2007]
Schneier: 'We shouldn't need a security industry'
News Speaking to silicon.com at the InfoSec show at London Olympia this week - a leading trade show for the security industry - Schneier said: "The fact this show even exists is a problem. Outspoken author and security guru... [26 Apr 2007]
