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Category Archives: Cyber
How to stop your kids swearing (or how to deal with BYOD)
Last week was the UK&I McAfee Customer summit, where 400 odd customers turned out at Chelsea Football Club to hear the great, the good and the unpronouncable from McAfee discussing what the future looks like if you sign on the … Continue reading
Posted in Bring your Own Device, BYOD, Consumerisation, Cyber, Information Security, InfoSec, McAfee
Tagged BYOD, dlp, mcafee, mcafee summit
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Austerity and Agility (or, Soap Gets in Your Eyes)
I live in a very pretty village in the Cotswolds. The cottage where I live is over 200 years old, and has all sorts of things which Estage Agent types would describe as ‘period features’. In English, this includes mice, … Continue reading
All quiet on the East end front
It’s the summer season. Queues on the M5 as people pile down to Devon or Cornwall, chaos at airports, and normally, rubbish on the Television. But not this year of course with the Olympics, or Sportsday as some of my … Continue reading
Posted in Cyber, Data Breach, Government ICT strategy, Govt ICT Strategy, ICO, Information Security, InfoSec, Security, Sophos
Tagged olympics, olympics infosec, rockford files
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How do we put Public Sector ICT back onto the front foot?
Depending on the figures you use, and ignoring some of the odd mathematics employed by Cabinet Office to demonstrate savings, we spend about £20bn a year on ICT in the Public Sector. Ranging from giving small children computer access, weird … Continue reading
Posted in BYOD, Consumerisation, Consumerization, Cyber, Data Breach, Efficiency, Information Security, InfoSec, Police ICT, Security, Sophos
Tagged business case for ICT, Police ICT, Public Sector ICT
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Public Sector Security vs Public Security vs Outsourcing
Is outsourcing Police back office a good idea? All across the Public Sector right now, there are announcements about shared services arrangements springing up. Local Authorities in Gloucestershire and Oxfordshire are joining up to share back office functions and whilst … Continue reading
InfoSec 2012 – a wash up and some advice for Marketing types
Another year passes, and certain things change, and certain things remain the same The things that change can often appear to be bad (I have now got 7 grey hairs for example), and the things that stay the same are … Continue reading
Posted in Bring your Own Device, BYOD, Cloud, Cloud Computing, Cyber, Information Security, InfoSec, Security, Sophos
Tagged #infosec121, graeme stewart, infosec 2012, sophos, tat swap shop
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Polar bear politics and data breaches
As occurs on a weekly basis, Public Servant magazine has an article about public sector data breaches and what Government should do about them. This one was by the venerable Graham Kemp of SAS and it’s one I have to … Continue reading
Coppers from the Coppers
Last week brought us a supposed landmark in the life of the ICO. They handed out the first fine to a Police Force, rapping Lancashire over the knuckles for losing some stuff, and having slapdash procedures. Bad Policemen. The resulting … Continue reading
Posted in Compliance, Cyber, Data Breach, Data Breach Fine, ICO, Information Security, InfoSec, Legal, Police ICT, Security, Sophos
Tagged data breach, fine, ICO, Lancashire Constabularly, Police
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BYOD – What’s the damn fuss about?
Let’s be blunt here. If I sit through another presentation telling me that the world is going to end because the guys in accounts want to use their iPads, and that it’s a terrible risk and the worlds going to … Continue reading
Posted in Bring your Own Device, BYOD, Cloud, Cyber, Efficiency, Govt ICT Strategy, ICO, Information Security, InfoSec, Sophos
Tagged BYOD, data breach, ipad
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Compliance vs Actually Doing It
One of the joys of this blogging lark is that I get to do one of my favourite things, which is be a bit grumpy, or more formally, challenge orthodoxy Challenging orthodoxy is something of a hobby of mine, and … Continue reading
Posted in Cloud, Cloud Computing, Compliance, Consumerisation, Consumerization, Cyber, Data Breach, Data Breach Fine, Efficiency, Government ICT strategy, ICO, Information Security, InfoSec, Legal, Security, Sophos
Tagged compliance, GCSX, PSN
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