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Nigel Stanley
Practice Leader
Focus Area: Security
Nigel Stanley is a specialist in business technology and IT security and now heads up Bloor’s IT Security practice.
IT security comprehensively covers the whole remit of protecting and defending business or organisational systems and data from unwelcome attacks or intrusions. This large area includes protection from the outer edges of the security domain such as handheld devices through to network perimeter, inside threats and local defences. It looks at the ever growing threats, many of them new and innovative. It includes use of firewalls, data loss prevention, data encryption, anti-malware, database protection, identity management, intrusion detection/prevention, content management/filtering and security policies and standards.
For a number of years Nigel was technical director of a leading UK Microsoft partner where he lead a team of consultants and engineers providing secure business IT solutions. This included data warehouses, client server applications and intelligent web based solutions. Many of these solutions required additional security due to their sensitive nature. From 1995 until 2003 Nigel was a Microsoft regional director, an advisory role to Microsoft Corporation in Redmond, which was in recognition of his expertise in Microsoft technologies and software development tools.
Nigel had previously worked for Microsoft as a systems engineer and product manager specialising in databases and developer technologies. He was active throughout Europe as a leading expert on database design and implementation.
He has written three books on database and development technologies including Microsoft .NET. He is working on a number of business-led IT assignments and is an executive board member of a number of privately held companies including Incoming Thought Limited a partner company to Bloor Research that specialises in security consultancy and education.
Nigel is a member of the Institution of Engineering and Technology, the British Computer Society and the Institute of Directors.
Research papers include:
- The Security Paradox
- The Security Paradox
- The strategic use of removable media
- Managing Security Risk and Compliance
- Cloud computing and data security
- Data Encryption
- Data Leak Prevention
- Enterprise Data Protection
- EU compliance and regulations for the IT security professional
- Asia Pacific & Japan - Compliance and Regulations for the IT professional
Recent articles and blog postings:
- Conficker grounds police checks
- Common passwords 123456 and qwerty finally exposed
- Cracking a 768-bit RSA key
- ICO Grows some Teeth
- Encryption gets a Battering - Part 2, RSA
- Mobile Phone Secret codes being hacked
- DDOS without the D. Are we doomed then?
- Encryption gets a Battering - Part 1, Mobile Phones
- Removable media - the next encryption frontier?
- Application Whitelisting - Worth a look?
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