IPod: Entertainment or Information Security Threat? (Part 1)
Posted on May 13, 2008
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Most companies are failing to address the serious security risks created by the proliferation of USB flash drives, MP3 players and similar portable storage devices, industry experts have warned.
iPod is widely used by people and many of them bring it to the workplace. iPods have massive storage capacity and it can be used as a channel to steal corporate information.
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Work from home security (Part 1)
Posted on May 7, 2008
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The company may ask you to work from home in case of emergencies such as natural calamities; epidemics and other may provide you a laptop computer. Use the following guidelines to protect the company laptop and information inside while working from home.
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Interview with security Expert (Gary Hinson)
Posted on April 30, 2008
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Gary Hinson, CEO of IsecT Ltd. and the brains behind NoticeBored. Gary has extensive practical experience of information security, having worked in, managed and provided consultancy support to information security and IT audit functions for large multinationals in financial services, pharmaceuticals, civil & military aerospace and high technology industries since the mid 1980’s. Through an innovative information security awareness service, NoticeBored, he proactively researches and debunks all sorts of information security topics for global customers.
Gary spent some time answering questions posted by Asok Ramachandran, security researcher for whatsyourisq.com. The questions covered a broad range of aspects associated with information security awareness. Continue reading…… Interview questionnaire for Gary Hinson
Asok: Tell us a bit about how you became interested in the “human aspect of information security” i.e. information security awareness?
Gary: It’s something that developed gradually over the course of my career in the field of IT governance (information security management, IT audit and IT risk management). The audit work, in particular, led me to realize that “computer problems” are in fact almost always “people problems” - usually mistakes or misunderstandings by the people that designed and developed software, and sometimes staff and management issues around the way the systems are specified and used. Read more on the importance of information security awareness - Interview with Gary Hinson