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Trust is not in the bind, it is in the bond

In the fight against online crime, banks and other financial institutions have steadily been rolling out new technologies to counter the threat...

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Consumerisation is not just a buzzword

Consumerisation is a word I am hearing a lot these days and yet as I type this I realise that it is still a word in its infancy, even my word...

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DigiNotar, where did our trust go?

The story that recently caused the biggest stir in IT security and government circles was the compromise at Dutch certificate authority DigiNotar...

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Angels & Demons: The CISO & the CIO

While the importance of the Chief Information Security Officer has been in constant growth over the past six years, organisations that employ a...

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The Buck stops where?

Should software vendors be liable for vulnerabilities in the products they sell?  Are they already liable to some degree, or would new...

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Redefining BYOD

More companies are seeing the benefits of allowing their employees to bring personally owned devices into the workplace and onto the corporate...

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Assessing the security of the devices entering the CIO's domain

There appears to be room for a "big three" at the top of the smartphone tree at the moment.The operating systems that appear to have solidified...

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Write once, exploit anywhere

Is Java safe for enterprises or for individual users? A question that has been the topic of the month since the most recent widely publicised...

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Perspective Matters: Contextual Security

Time was when one of the key things that a security technology had to avoid, was initiating an avalanche of event notifications. Tuning...

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On the edge of the future

Here is a collection of buzzwords to conjure with; cloud, mobile, Big Data, consumerisation, Something-as-a-Service, wearable tech, Internet of Things. Almost certainly terms you have heard...

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Top tips for investigating cyber risk insurance

A Marsh Risk Management Report entitled "Benchmarking Trends: Interest in Cyber Insurance Continues to Climb", shows that the market for…

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