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 Posted by secExtra on March 06th, 2008

Once confined to the office, the global workforce is on the move. Research group IDC estimates that there will be one billion mobile workers by 2011. The prospect of a constantly connected, roaming workforce has serious implications for information security.
The biggest risk comes from users who surf the Web unprotected while ‘on the road’ and return to the office with virus-infected laptops that can potentially vandalise the corporate IT network or lead to data loss. Roaming workers are more likely to violate corporate Internet usage policies – treating their …

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 Posted by secExtra on March 03rd, 2008

RFID is both a helpful technology and a reason for many to put on their tin foil hats. For ‘people’ tracking we still have some serious concerns, but for product and data tracking we think it’s a perfect fit. We have a great item in today from Nigel Clarke, National Sales Manager for Imation, where he examines the issues involved in effective data handling and storage, and asks if there is anything that technology can do – and should be doing – to help resolve the inadequacy of current practices.
Rarely does a week go …

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 Posted by secExtra on February 27th, 2008

The UK has recently seen a increase number of cases where data protection and security has been breached. This has resulted in huge financial losses in addition to public embarrassment caused when the news comes to the surface.
Research by the Ponemon Institute found that the average total cost per incident was more than £1.4 million. The “2007 Annual Study: U.K. Cost of a Data Breach” also reveals that the financial impact of lost business due to reduced consumer trust was the most significant component of data breach costs. This first-annual U.K. study was …

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 Posted by secExtra on February 27th, 2008

The perennial employer problem of staff misusing data they have access to remains a constant, but Tier-3 says, the solution is now in most business manager’s hands.
“A recent Associated Press news report cites the example of a landlord snooping on tenants to discover details of their finances, as well as a woman who accessed her ex-boyfriend’s account after the couple broke up,” said Geoff Sweeney, Tier-3′s chief technology officer.
“Both people worked for a Wisconsin energy utility company and took advantage of their wide-ranging access to people’s data to go snooping,” he added.
But, says …

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 Posted by SecExtra on February 20th, 2008

Aperture has announced a handheld data capture device for its market-leading data centre management system, Aperture VISTA®. The new solution enables a data centre management to cost effectively, accurately and predictably collect detailed information about the equipment and resources within. The new tool will enable data centre management to cut the time and cost required to achieve return on investment for their VISTA solution by up to 50%.

Data centre management often struggles to accurately capture details of the equipment the organisation owns, where it is located and what it is connected to. Where organisations …