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By David Gibson April 04, 2012
The furore surrounding the UK Government’s plans to require ISPs and telcos to store all available information on emails, texts, phone calls and web history,...
By David Gibson March 14, 2012
A report claims that says IT professionals in 25 per cent of firms claim a lack of understanding about how to classify and manage their...
By David Gibson March 12, 2012
Regarding reports from last week’s RSA 2012 event that IT security professionals have a high risk of burnout, the use of cost-effective data governance technology...
By David Gibson February 23, 2012
In most organisations today, there is sensitive data that is overexposed and vulnerable to misuse or theft, leaving IT in an ongoing race to prevent...
By David Gibson February 06, 2012
Reports that targeted trojan malware is using data streams formatted as an Microsoft Windows update to communicate back to base highlights the need for a...
By David Gibson January 26, 2012
I welcome news that a common set of privacy standards are to be applied to organisations across the entire European Union for the first time...
By David Gibson January 17, 2012
Following the news that a former NHS care assistant has been convicted of obtaining the medical records of five members of her ex-husband’s family in...
By David Gibson December 07, 2011
Reports suggest that the European Commission is planning to impose fines of up to five per cent of global turnover on errant companies losing private...
By David Gibson November 11, 2011
The fact that the world’s largest share registry business has been hit by a potentially major data breach after a (now former) employee walked off...
By David Gibson October 27, 2011
Research from the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) advises that businesses are waking up to their data protection responsibilities, so IT security professionals need to be...
By David Gibson September 16, 2011
Research just released shows that almost two-thirds of IT professionals are concerned about security issues associated with the use of personal devices in the workplace...
By David Gibson July 22, 2011
As news of a major data breach involving the computer system of a major US Department of Defense contractor unfolds – with 24,000 `sensitive’ Pentagon...
By David Gibson May 25, 2011
As the most widely adopted messaging platform and semi-structured data repository in the world, Microsoft Exchange is the go-to cross-functional collaboration system for many organisations....
By David Gibson March 01, 2011
Whether you are a large retailer or a small internet boutique, if you accept credit cards you need to keep that information secure. It’s not...
By David Gibson September 01, 2010
The recent worldwide controversy surrounding confidential material being supplied to Wiki Leaks by anonymous whistle-blowers – leading to the publishing of tens of thousands of...
