http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,2000542945b,00.htm (ISC)2's Blog - Security Profession blog - Latest blog feeds at ZDNet UK en http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Sat, 07 Nov 2009 17:41:08 +0000 Sat, 07 Nov 2009 17:41:08 +0000 20 mailroomuk@zdnet.com (() The recent PwC survey into the Global State of Information Security (http://news.zdnet.co.uk/security/0,1000000189,39809565,00.htm) is a timely reminder of the skills adjustment facing our industry. Despite maturing in its short 20-year history, disparate... zdnetuk/10014337 http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10014337o-2000542945b,00.htm Fri, 30 Oct 2009 18:19:54 +0000 mailroomuk@zdnet.com (() The most recent identity theft attack to hit the headlines (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8206305.stm) was apparently the biggest case of identity theft in the USA. Like an increasing number of such attacks, it exploited weaknesses in web based appl... zdnetuk/10013593 http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10013593o-2000542945b,00.htm Wed, 26 Aug 2009 18:39:26 +0100 mailroomuk@zdnet.com (() I think we do – everyone from the private sector in particular IT and Information Security professionals – has a role to play. Not in the least because the UK Cyber Security Strategy requires a lot to be defined. It’s a starting point, albeit a good one,... zdnetuk/10013409 http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10013409o-2000542945b,00.htm Fri, 07 Aug 2009 10:50:01 +0100 mailroomuk@zdnet.com (() Last week’s IDG Research Services survey commissioned by RSA highlighted the lack of strategy in place in most organisations for outsourcing business services and information to the cloud. It is a reminder that offshoring and outsourcing present a real ch... zdnetuk/10013002 http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10013002o-2000542945b,00.htm Mon, 22 Jun 2009 10:56:12 +0100 mailroomuk@zdnet.com (() I was in san Francisco last month for the 20th Anniversary celebration of (ISC)2’s formation. While there I was fortunate enough to have dinner in one of the city’s many excellent Chinese restaurants. At the end of the meal the proprietor gave each of u... zdnetuk/10012689 http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10012689o-2000542945b,00.htm Tue, 05 May 2009 16:07:41 +0100 mailroomuk@zdnet.com (() More news this month of critical vulnerabilities in software – including but not limited to Cisco’s IOS software that powers the majority of Cisco routers and switches as well as HP OpenView’s systems and network management software and Sun’s Javascript... zdnetuk/10012462 http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10012462o-2000542945b,00.htm Tue, 31 Mar 2009 13:50:49 +0100 mailroomuk@zdnet.com (() I was reading the article about the Home Office breaching the data protection act and it got me thinking about the recent meeting I and a number of other information security professionals had with Eleanor Laing, MP discussing and advising on what the Tor... zdnetuk/10012070 http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10012070o-2000542945b,00.htm Wed, 04 Feb 2009 11:47:46 +0000 mailroomuk@zdnet.com (() I was reading an excellent article by Jason Holloway posted on the BCS Blogs concerning learning lessons from Monty Python and the Holy Grail. In it he refers to a number of situations in the film and relates them to situations in Information Security. ... zdnetuk/10009282 http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10009282o-2000542945b,00.htm Thu, 11 Sep 2008 08:10:36 +0100 mailroomuk@zdnet.com (() The recent news about customer details being retrieved from a server sold on eBay is yet another story about the sorry state of information security in the electronic age (see: http://news.zdnet.co.uk/security/0,1000000189,39465455,00.htm). What is import... zdnetuk/10009106 http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10009106o-2000542945b,00.htm Thu, 28 Aug 2008 14:33:41 +0100 mailroomuk@zdnet.com (() My own experience and talking to colleagues has prompted me to wonder whether the day has arrived that security professionals will need a legal background. The information security management professional is under increasing pressure to cope with the dema... zdnetuk/10009062 http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10009062o-2000542945b,00.htm Thu, 21 Aug 2008 22:50:05 +0100