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INFORMATION SECURITY MANAGEMENT

2012 IT security predictions: blanket encryption or apocalypse now
Business continuity in 2012 2011 was the year of the third-party trust compromise, and the year of the bring your own device mobile revolution. Both of these will have their parts to play in 2012.

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How to detect and stop corporate espionage
The key to successfully preventing espionage is to not just focus on information security. By Michael Podszywalow, MBA, CISSP, CISM, CISA, CEH.
The DigiNotar, Comodo and RSA breaches: what have we learned?
Enterprises need to move past the shock and begin formulating their own compromise recovery and business continuity plans.
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Report ‘debunks prevailing myths about distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks’
Smaller, less intensive attacks, can wreak more damage on enterprises than large bandwidth cyber-attacks, according to a new study from Radware.

World Economic Forum launches ‘Risk and Responsibility in a Hyperconnected World: Principles and Guidelines’
Principles aim to provide organizations with a model for organizational cyber resilience.

IBM launches new software to help organization control the influx of mobile devices to the workplace
Take control of ‘bring your own device’ threats.

‘Cyber Security Strategies: Achieving Cyber Resilience’
New guidance document from the Information Security Forum.

PwC highlights cyber attack realities in Davos
On 25th January 2012 PwC hosted ‘a real time cyber crisis’ at the World Economic Forum.

European Commission publishes new data protection proposals
Non-compliance penalties can be as high as 2 percent of the global annual turnover of a company.

SharePoint users develop insecure habits
Survey finds almost half of SharePoint users disregard the security within SharePoint, and copy sensitive or confidential documents to insecure hard drives, USB keys or even email it to a third party.

Twenty critical controls for effective cyber defence
New guidance document from the UK Centre for the Protection of National Infrastructure.

Industrial control systems: recommendations for improving security
Latest ENISA report describes the current situation concerning industrial control systems security and proposes seven recommendations for improving it.

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Information security trends for 2012
Cryptzone’s predictions for the top security trends for the coming year.

Smartphones and enterprise security
Smartphones raise key security issues, which many organizations have yet to address.

Understanding the correlation between data leakage and the security mission
In many apparently very secure organizations, data leakage enabled by advanced evasion techniques is a potential disaster just waiting to happen.

Hacktivism and the lessons learned from LulzSec
What can be done to prevent future cyber disasters? By Rob Rachwald and Noa Bar Yosef.

The mobile security conundrum
As the lines between portable computers and mobile devices become blurred organizations need to act to address security vulnerabilities which could lead to data breaches and downtime. By Andy Cordial.

Mobile security reaching a tipping point for organizations
Rob Rachwald discusses the growing security threat posed by mobile devices.

Cyber-attacks, Black Swans and business continuity management
Don’t plan for specific incidents: instead businesses need to have the right capabilities, which means training people in appropriate crisis skills. By Jim Preen.

The rise of APT
Defining Advanced Persistent Threats, by Amichai Shulman, CTO of Imperva.

Beware the ‘vanity attack’
Attackers are targeting individuals to gain access to corporate networks.Mickey Boodaei explains the process.

Information security from a business perspective
It’s time to stop seeing information security as simply a technical issue. By Christos K. Dimitriadis, Ph.D., CISA, CISM.

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Certificate management explored
Mobile security Calum MacLeod highlights twelve classic mistakes which can result in certificate-related downtime and IT security breaches.

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