Redundancies and corporate re-organisations are an unfortunate reality in today’s economic climate. Too often, businesses leave themselves vulnerable to a data breach or serious security incident during the redundancy cycle by not immediately revoking the network and application access points of terminated employees.
With Companies like RBS announcing massive job cuts, the threats that these companies [...]

With all the doom and gloom of the past few months and billions of whatever currency you like being poured into the economy I have to report on a ray of hope. I think my son may have hit on the solution completely inadvertently. He’s not a renowned economist, just an honest, hard working car [...]

At a recent monthly gathering of both good and bad hackers in a dingy pub in Leicester Square, I asked them whether the economy was opening up new opportunities for them.  The response was an overwhelming yes, with nearly everyone saying that the cut backs had caused jobs to be outsourced and, with less folks [...]

A new shift in computing is upon us – Cloud Computing. As our use of computing resources evolves from mainframes to PC’s and networks we are now facing a major shift in the way we work. This could have dramatic effects on the way we use our computers, both for work or play. But the [...]

Protecting a business is as much to do with ‘human factors’ as it is with the IT department, argues Paul Kearney, Head of Enterprise Risk Research at BT Group.
Much can be learned from history. Take, for example, the Trojan Horse – a contraption that was received as a gift during the siege of Troy but [...]

Written from an IT Security perspective. A concise and informative back to basics article written by Calum Macleod, Western European Director at Cyber-Ark.
In the lead up to the US elections, Barack Obama’s comment about Lipstick on a Pig resonated because in my opinion it just about sums up the approach to IT security in most [...]