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Cynic Show coming soon

“The thing about the written blog is that you can attribute any quotation to anyone and no-one will be able to distinguish fact from fiction” – Abraham Lincoln
But the camera never lies. Which is why The Infosec Cynic show is coming to a computer monitor to you soon. A weekly show bringing you the latest [...]

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The Path of Least Resistance

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Childhood physics lessons always taught me that objects moving through a system followed the path of least resistance. Whether it is water running downhill, electricity running through a circuit or even weather systems travelling across a continent, this rule always rings true. As Security professionals, it should not then, come as a surprise, that [...]

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Twitter Risks

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Twitter is probably the most unique of the web 2.0 sites. People either ‘get it’ or they don’t. Sites like facebook are understood by everyone regardless of whether they use it or not.
So, should twitter be treated the same as other social networking websites? I mean, a lot of companies don’t allow their staff [...]

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Divine Security Policy

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So companies spend countless hours writing their security policies and this isn’t an easy task. Each policy has to be drafted, proof read, re-drafted, re-proof read and then published. It’s at this point that the real fun begins where users have to be educated in the ways of the new policy. Gap analysis have [...]

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Who Cares What A Hedge Fund Is

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I’ve had the pleasure of working within Information Security for almost 10 years. A great number of those years have been spent within the financial sector. So you’d probably assume that I know everything there is to know about banking.
So did I; until someone asked me what a hedge fund was. Sure I’ve spent [...]

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Keeping Up With The Joneses

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I was going to write about something else but that couldn’t have been too important because I’ve forgotten what it was. Strange how that happens. What seems important one moment, is trivial the next. One day USB encryption is the current flavour and the next day it’s all about Trojans.
So what are security departments [...]

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