White Collar Crime Archives - Alan Calder on IT Governance, Cyber Resilience, ISO 27001 and Brexit

Basel II – Really, What Was The Point?

Alan Calder February 27, 2009 IT Security

I find that I wrote this, a couple of years ago, in IT Governance – Guidelines for Directors: “Basel 2 seeks to achieve its goal of strengthening the international financial system through three pillars. Pillar 1 aims to align a …

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New UK Computer Crime Unit

Alan Calder October 3, 2008 Data Breaches, Data Protection, ISO 27001, IT Security, PCI DSS, White Collar Crime

Well, that’s a relief – the UK government has caught up with the fact that there are criminals on the Internet. The government has said that it will spend £7 million to establish the Police Central E-crime Unit (PceU) in …

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White collar crime and information security

Alan Calder June 1, 2007 Data Breaches, ISMS, IT Security, White Collar Crime

The increasing incidence and serious nature of internal threats to the security of corporate information is well demonstrated by the recent need for Cable & Wireless to injunct a former executive to hand a 100,00-strong customer database back to her …

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