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 Posted by SecExtra on April 24th, 2008

Unless you’ve been on Mars for the past six months, you won’t have missed the high-profile data breaches suffered by both Government and private sector organisations.  But why have these breaches been happening? The proliferation of portable storage devices such as laptops, portable hard drives, USB sticks and ‘lifestyle’ products such as MP3 players, alongside unmanaged PC connectivity has created a recipe for disaster.  It really is just too easy to accidentally leave a USB stick in the …

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 Posted by SecExtra on March 10th, 2008

Remote working is not a simple issue to tackle effectively and securely in situations when it must be done right. To give us the low down we invited Anton Levchuk, Marketing Director of Famatech to provide us with some insight on the things we simply need to know in order to pull it off correctly. Over to you Anton.
For those people whose office is actually a ‘patch’, who are on the road all day, every day seeing clients or going to meetings, setting up their laptop and accessing their corporate emails from …

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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 19th, 2008

ISC-squared, a company that educates and certifies information security professionals throughout their careers, today announced the release of its complimentary “2008 Resource Guide for Today’s Information Security Professional, Global Edition”.

This 132-page guide provides a wide range of resource listings for security-focused professional associations, public and private sector events, Websites, online and print publications and educational institutions throughout Europe/Middle East/Africa (EMEA) as well as in the North, Central and South America and Asia-Pacific regions. The 2008 Resource Guide is available as a pocket-sized, spiral bound booklet, as well as electronically on CD-ROM and in PDF download format.

The hard copy and CD …

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 Posted by SecExtra on February 18th, 2008

The former head of Corporate Social Responsibility and Marketing at MSN has joined the Child Exploitation and Online Protection (CEOP) Centre to champion its work in making online environments safer for children and young people.

Natalie Mead brings 17 years of experience of the online industry and commercial marketing to the law enforcement agency when she takes up her post.

Natalie will work with industry to ensure that the new and emerging online technologies are not only safer for children to use but also more hostile to those sex offenders who would seek to harm them.

“I am thrilled to be joining CEOP,” …