White Collar Crime Archive
Alan Calder
December 7, 2011
Business and the Economy, Compliance, Cyber Security, Data Breaches, Data Protection, ISO 27001, ISO 27002 (ISO 17999), IT Governance, IT Security, White Collar Crime
While the UK cyber security strategy, published last week, is full of good stuff, it is lacking in one key area: compulsion. My view on this was quite widely reported last week: if UK organisations won’t take adequate action to protect …
Alan Calder
June 1, 2011
Business and the Economy, Compliance, Cyber Security, Data Breaches, Data Protection, ISO 27001, ISO 27002 (ISO 17999), IT Governance, IT Security, White Collar Crime
According to a recently published Which? report (based on the results of an FoI requesst to the ICO), there were, in the year up to August 2010, nearly 1,200 allegations of breaches of the DPA made to the ICO in respect …
Alan Calder
April 1, 2011
Business and the Economy, Compliance, Cyber Security, Data Breaches, ISO 27001, IT Governance, IT Security, Mobile Devices, social media, White Collar Crime
Gartner says that “IT & business leaders must face the fact that social colloboration is already a reality.” I agree. As a company, we have been working with social media in its varying, evolving forms for a number of years. …
One of the most frequent questions I’m asked by CEOs is: “But what’s the real bottom-line benefit of more effective information security, or of an ISO27001-certificated Information Security Management System?” One real benefit is the effective information security protects the …
The UK’s Financial Services Authority (FSA) this week fined Royal Bank of Scotland Group £5.6m for ‘failing to have adequate systems and controls in place to prevent breaches of UK financial sanctions’. The Australian IT News quite rightly identifies …
This interesting article explains why old-fashioned crime – robbing a bank, say – has now gone online. It’s quicker, easier, and safer for the criminal. That does mean that organisations have to take care to protect themselves against cyber-criminals – …
The new Information Commissioner, Christopher Graham, has recognised that current penalties for breaching the UK Data Protection Act are derisory and has called for the introduction of prison sentences for reckless breaches. Excellent. But not enough – the ICO is only …
Alan Calder
May 15, 2009
Business and the Economy, Business Continuity, Compliance, Data Breaches, Data Protection, ISMS, ISO 27001, IT Governance, IT Security, Mobile Devices, White Collar Crime
While I’m probably more interested in governance than the average person, I do sometimes worry that contextualising information and compliance challenges as governance issues can delay organisations from taking the obvious, common-sense action. This intelligent article on mobile security governance, …
It’s great that Hector Sants has said that “delivery of supervision has to be done in partnership with responsible firms, shareholders and auditors.” (It’s a pity that Sants is inconsistent, but that’s another matter.) The thing is, he’s not exactly saying anything …
The essential difference between the US and the UK models of corporate governance is that, in the UK, there is a clear understanding of how board rooms work combined with a flexible, principles-based approach while, in the US, corporate governance …
