Security, IT Infrastructures and Business Continuity

InfoSec Needs Greater Business RelevanceInfoSec must change. Vendors currently spend three days selling themselves at the show, but the needs of business organisations and their users must become the top priority. Rather than delivering a sprawl of disconnected technologies, the show needs to have more of a business and industry ... read more..

Adoption Trends in Sustainability SoftwareSustainability is moving up corporate priority lists, driven by regulation, supply chain risk, customer pressure and investor pressure, among other factors. Managing for sustainability is too complex for manual methods; it requires IT-based automation to be effective. But the market for sustainability management solutions is highly ... read more..

Protecting information at the endpointMarch 2012CatalystInformation security is now a challenge throughout the enterprise and not just at gateways on the edge of networks. In particular, the use of a large number of diverse types of endpoint devices is making the endpoint one of the most vulnerable pieces of the ... read more..

March 2012CatalystPublic cloud service provider Amazon Web Services (AWS), a wholly owned subsidiary of e-retail company Amazon, has had a huge impact on the IT industry by introducing a new on-demand, self-service approach to IT infrastructure services. It has become the Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) provider to emulate and ... read more..

Recognising increased use of automation is required in cloud-enabled IT environmentsMarch 2012CatalystThe infrastructure management market has been dormant, or at best pedestrian, in terms of its radical innovation over the past decade. However, two years ago it began to change as a perfect storm of disruptive technologies, such as virtualisation, ... read more..

Iceland to Become a Low-Cost Data Centre DestinationIceland's new and unique multi-tenant data centre will be an attractive low-cost destination for many IT workloads eventually. UK co-location provider Verne Global built the facility on a former Nato base near Keflavik airport, with modular IT infrastructure from Colt Technology. Verne ... read more..

monitoring, managing and mitigating risk IT managers and CIOs are under daily pressure to keep company business systems going. They have to maintain 24/7 IT services to drive growth, keep their customers satisfied or defend market share. With their C-level colleagues, they know they will have to invest at some point ... read more..

Amazon Web Service outage: keep it in perspective In April Amazon Web Services (AWS) experienced an outage that was its longest to date and exposed serious flaws in the design of components of its infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) offering. The I told you so anti-cloud brigade went into a frenzy of smugness. ... read more..

cloud computing All businesses who are thinking about embracing the cloud as their core IT service delivery route quite rightly should fully understand the risks as well as the well-documented rewards The main concerns centre around service reliability, accessibility and security of data stored in the cloud. Here, Mark Seemann, ... read more..

From Silicon The downturn has not been kind to security budgets. Yet CIOs still need to find ways of creating defences against a number of threats that are now taking shape. Reports Cath Everett from Silicon. Although information security budgets were not as badly affected during the recession as ... read more..

data centre management Alot has been written on the developments and trends in the data centre, particularly around virtualisation and Cloud Computing, green IT and the potential new market for service providers that will grow out of these new technologies and the need for associated advisory services. With the projected ... read more..

Jonathan Kirsop and Noel Butcher from Stephenson Harwood explore the impact social networking has on personal privacy and the likely effects. After their rapid rise, Social Networking Sites (SNSs) such as MySpace, Facebook and Twitter are now looking for ways to monetize either with one-eye on an eventual IPO ... read more..

The National Computing Centre's Daniel Dresner says it's time the standard for escrow is reanimated. There's something deeply suspicious about source code escrow. Only Schrdinger's cat knows what's in the box. OK. So perhaps that's not entirely accurate because if it's done properly you know what's been archived. But like ... read more..

IT Assist, the ICT shared services provider for the Northern Ireland Civil Service have become the latest organisation to achieve accreditation to the new NCC national standard. Consolidating IT services and reducing costs in the public sector through Shared Services has been a government objective since the Gershon Review ... read more..

The adoption of server-based virtualisation is gaining pace as organisations face up to a new decade with ever tighter budgets. However, many of the potential benefits of desktop virtualisation are as yet untapped. The Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) presents the opportunity to fundamentally transform the cost model of desktop computing ... read more..

The outbreak of potential data breach reports in the UK prompts obvious and inevitable questions: How can these things happen in the first place? How many more times is personal information lost without anyones acknowledgement and, some would argue most importantly, what can be done to secure the corporate defences? ... read more..

With unemployment, hiring freezes and redundancy dominating the headlines, its not surprising that many business professionals will happily say goodbye to a recession-dominated 2009 and look forward to a more positive 2010. The IT sector, like many others, was unable to sidestep the impact of a global recession, experiencing a ... read more..

We are operating in a relentlessly changing business environment, with uncertainty fast becoming one of the only constants on which senior management can rely. Globalisation, market consolidation, ongoing technological advancements and heightened customer expectations, as well as increased regulation exacerbated by the fall out of the financial crisis, are all ... read more..

As the CTO of a data protection and encryption company I hear many a tale of woe as other CTOs and CEOs confess to me the stories of how various laptops within their companies have gone astray and the destruction these lost laptops have caused in their wake. With this ... read more..

Ian Kilpatrick of Wick Hill Group discusses how the latest botnet threats are evolving and offers some suggestions as to how you can protect against them.Over the last year, the incidence of botnet (or zombie) attacks has been growing rapidly. Some service providers around the world have already begun to ... read more..

To be successful, todays business needs to strike a balance between cost-efficiencies, keeping a productive workforce motivated and ensuring that they are mindful of corporate and legislative compliance. However, the way that organisations interact, work and do business has taken on a collaborative nature which has to fit in with ... read more..

Businesses today face more data security threats than ever before.The threat landscape is constantly evolving to the point that as soon as a new security measure is put in place, that measure will likely be breached or become redundant in the face of a new threat. Security aims to stay ... read more..

There is no precise legal definition of fraud, the term is used to describe a multitude of offences, including deception, forgery, theft, misappropriation, collusion and false representation of material facts. Given this wide potential then for wrong-doing it is perhaps surprising that fraud is not featured in the National Policing ... read more..

Simply securing information systems is no longer enough. Increasingly, organisations need to be able to demonstrate that their systems and the information they contain are protected. This means finding a way to gather relevant information, in one place that provides an accessible overview of current information security status, creating confidence ... read more..

Including the 2006 results, Ernst Young's Global Information Security Survey has shown over the past years that many companies are making significant progress in mitigating risks by strengthening their information security. It suggests information securitys organisational position will be strengthened through the convergence of continuous improvements and companies recognising ... read more..

Ernst Young's 10th Annual Global Information Security Survey of 1,300 organisations across 50 countries found that information security remains too isolated from executive management and the strategic decision-making process. Recent incidents in the UK have done much to highlight the lack of protection of information assets held by organizations, ... read more..

Ernst Young's 10th Global Fraud Survey of 1,186 senior business executives from 33 countries found that illegal business practices such as bribery are still being used by organisations to secure or retain business despite the rise in anti-corruption legislation and law enforcement. It is worryingly clear from the survey ... read more..

Ernst Young's 2nd IT Internal Audit Survey compared the current state of IT internal auditing across 60 leading companies from the UK, Ireland and Sweden via interviews with CIOs, Heads of Internal Audit and Audit Committees. CIOs and Heads of Internal Audit agree that information security and major business ... read more..

Ernst Young's 2008 Global Information Security Survey - one of the longest running and most recognized annual surveys within the global information security arena.Moving beyond compliance ... read more..

The term 'Information Assurance' in its broadest sense is the process for enabling the right information to be available securely to the right people at the right time for best business advantage. To achieve this business requirement organisations need to: move away from traditional command and control ... read more..