Lipstick on a Pig

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 [...]

Appraisals

Back in the day when cavemen formed their own start-up companies they exchanged spiked clubs for women. As they developed and grew, mergers and acquisitions took place and they ended up with large companies with larger numbers of spiked clubs, lots of women and ‘employees’.
Now the problem with employee’s is that they always believe they’re [...]

Please leave behind common sense as you enter

During my career in infosec and my lifetime of professional cynicism, I’ve been on the receiving end of much abuse and managerial mis-management.
I’ve lost count the number of times someone has asked for an infosec opinion in a meeting and then promptly cut me off mid-sentence suggesting that it would probably be better if I [...]

Not so unbreakable

The leisure and tourism industry is a strange one. I always thought people visited London to see Buckingham palace, Big Ben, Black Cabs, the architecture and history. So you can imagine how confused I was when I saw an advert in a holiday magazine advertising how multi-cultural London is.
So I began thinking about it. Yes, [...]

Secrets from the sign maker

Usually when someone mentions information security or the data protection act what do you think of? Is it something that is only of concern to big corporates and governments?
Clearly, it does not concern anyone else. Its not like we go around losing gazillions of records every day in the same vein as our banks. So [...]

Educating the masses

Like most people who haven’t been to a college or university for many years, I am saddened to see year on year the continual decline in the educational standards. It beggars belief how living in Britain, one of the most prosperous nations on the planet we have young adults leaving schools not being able to [...]