WHO ARE YOU PREACHING TO ANYWAY?...
I recently was privileged enough to be asked to present at a merchant forum in London. Interestingly, the intended recipients had been very much in the driving seat since they had selected the topics...
View ArticleFAILING GRACEFULLY...
Sometimes, despite our best endeavours, things just don't work out the way we planned... You know the feeling: you think you have it all under control, you think you've engaged with the right people,...
View ArticleTHE UNBEARABLE RISKINESS OF BEING... SOCIAL
The inevitability of social media in both our private and professional lives is undeniable. With social networks transforming the rules of business engagement, many businesses think the biggest risk of...
View ArticleInternet Abductions Of Olympic Proportions
By Ian Moyse, Workbooks.com, Eurocloud UK Board Member & Cloud Industry Forum Governance Board MemberRecent studies demonstrate that upwards of 25% of Internet bandwidth in an office are consumed...
View ArticleRetour aux fondamentaux 1: les mots de passe
Dans cette série d'articles sur le "back to basics", -le retour aux fondamentaux-, je vais vous indiquer les points qui font toujours "mal" sur les centaines d'audits en sécurité que j'ai pu mener....
View ArticleTop trends in cloud computing for SMEs
Ian Moyse, Workbooks.com Sales Director, Eurocloud UK Board Member&Cloud Industry Forum Governance Board Member.Following Gartner’s recent report on what it sees as the 5 key trends that will shape...
View ArticleTHE CRM Lottery ‘Will you get the outcome you expect or will you be one of...
Let’s discuss a couple of the heavyweight C words in the IT Sector, Cloud and CRM.What do they have in common? Well they have both certainly provoked a lot of press coverage and airtime, both have...
View ArticleSecuring your Cloud Experience
By Ian Moyse, Sales Director www.workbooks.com , Eurocloud UK Board Member & Cloud Industry Forum Governance Board MemberSecurity is one of the most important factors for companies who want to...
View ArticleDPA Fines – Why ICO Got it Right
I’ve heard two arguments that are critical of the ICO fines. They go something like this: (1) the fines were too low and (2) it’s wrong of ICO to fine a Local Authority when it didn’t fine Google. Let...
View ArticleThe Evil Shredder
Shredders, the object of last resort for handling confidential information. Most education and awareness programs tell their users to always use a shredder to dispose of documents so office users ( and...
View ArticleWhat's the point of a management system?
My blog posting on OODA loops prompted a response from Andrew Yeomans, pointing out that Deming loops and Boyd loops are not mutually exclusive, i.e. you can have a slow moving management system...
View ArticleDesire Paths and what they tell us about security
I heard an interesting term the other day “desire path” it is a term used to describe the side paths that often pop up in parks away from the main path that people use as a short cut between the main...
View ArticleMeeting the demands of the contemporary security market
It's been a long time since I last blogged. It's been due to excessive commitments. Freelance work has been thick and fast since the beginning of the year, reflecting an increasingly a robust market...
View ArticleSecurite Informatique et politique ?
« Tout n'est pas politique, mais la politique s'intéresse à tout » (Nicolas Machiavel). A quelques semaines du premier tour des élections présidentielles, la politique s’intéresse notamment à la...
View ArticleFishing for Phishers
We seem to take phishing attacks for granted these days, in much the same way that we’ve accepted spam as a natural, and inevitable, by-product of email. Some experts believe that one of the best...
View ArticleIs cheating a game a criminal offence ?
When does cheating in a video game become a criminal matter ? I recently came across this story where by 2 men was accused of “cheating” video poker machines in Las Vegas.In essence they are alledged...
View ArticleWho influences security?
I was contacted last week by a company that specialises in harnessing influence. They claimed to be working for a top IT security solutions vendor and had identified me as a key "influencer" in the UK....
View ArticleBreach disclosure – the law of unintended consequences
We seem to have been talking about breach disclosure laws for ages. Well, it has been ages, nearly a decade – 2003 was the landmark, when California introduced the first true security breach disclosure...
View ArticleLets Go Phishing
It can seem at times that the only people who like change are Internet attackers. And they don’t just like it—they need it. Technology’s rapid changes give cybercriminals new attack vectors to exploit,...
View ArticleTrust and Society
I used to think that Bruce Schneier was out of touch with industry CISOs, but now I think that they are out of touch with him. He's come on tremendously in recent years. I saw him present to the...
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