Articles / Features
The links below will take you to some of the security related articles and features that Activity have contributed to recently.
June 2010 – BCS Online – Getting into the IT Security Market - In this feature Neil O’Connor provides his thoughts on the best qualification to go for if you’re looking to become a Chief Information Security Officer (CISO).
June 2010 – Infosecurity Magazine - DLP Technology Unplugged - This feature by Davey Winder investigates why DLP (Data Loss Prevention) Technology has become something of a buzzword with security analysts. Included in the article is Neil O’Connor’s view of what it isn’t.
April 2010 – SC Magazine – Can you ever be wholly leakproof from data loss? - In this feature by Rob Buckley, he explains that even the best products need careful deployment. The article states that “Encryption can help solve the problem of lost removable media and mobile devices being raided for data, although it can do nothing about someone who knows the password for the device, or, as Activity IM consultant Neil O’Connor points out, “an employee who puts the token in the laptop in Starbucks and then goes off to the toilet”.
March 2010 – Searchsecurity.techtarget.co.uk – Enterprise data management: Prevent data loss and insider threats by Neil O’Connor – While DLP technologies are becoming more advanced, some organizations still struggle with how to prevent data loss. In this feature Neil highlights how insider threats can present some serious security issues and provides advice on how to overcome them.
March 2010 – SC Magazine – Trojans on the Warpath – In this feature by Rob Buckley, Dave Hartley, Senior Security consultant at Activity states “that all businesses should implement a formal security patch management process to ensure that all identified software updates are in place. He adds that to help counter the threat posed from a drive-by-attack, web-proxy content filtering technology can be used to block URLs that host malicious code or filter it out altogether.”
February 2010 – IT Pro Online – So you’ve been hacked now what? - In this feature written by Davey Winder, Neil O’Connor, provides comment around invoking your incident management process and the first stage, which is to decide if you have actually been hacked.
January 2010 – BCS Online - Neil O’Connor, Principal Consultant at Activity sets out his Five golden rules of business continuity management from lessons learnt from implementing BS25999.
