IT Security Archive

I’m delighted to see that the High Court has found, this morning, that Mrs May’s government cannot trigger Article 50 on its own. As far as I can see, referendums in the UK are only advisory, not binding – which …

I’ve talked, for some years, about the disconnect between managements stating that cyber security is on their agenda, or under control, and the rapidly rising number of data breaches, as reported in multiple surveys and reports, as well as increasingly …

Most businesses will make the best of Brexit. From a broader perspective, however, vandals are using the Brexit vote to destroy Britain. The referendum was in law directional only; neither the government nor the Brexiteers had or have a coherent …

Our internal position on GDPR and Brexit was, on 27th June 2016: The key thing, from a practical point of view, is that negotiations to leave the EU are unlikely to be completed before – at the earliest – October …

This is what I said to my staff prior to the EU Referendum: We vote on 23rd June, as a country, for whether we remain in the EU or leave it. How you vote is of course a matter for …

In today’s underskilled cyber security market place, people ask whether they should acquire a CISSP or CISM qualification. Each qualification has different strengths – so, which do you think information security professionals should pursue? Where do you think CISMP fits into a …

Eugene Kapersky – the founder of Kaspersky Lab, the world’s largest privately-held anti-malware vendor – made four important points in his cybersecurity seminar at Infosec 2013: “Every company is a victim of cyber attacks, whether they know it or not;” Even smaller …