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30 January, 2012: Getting ahead in the cloud
Cloud-based computing is growing faster than the IT sector as a whole. There are plenty of analysts throwing numbers about regarding cloud spending....
16 December, 2011: Now hold your breath - the Olympic year is nearly upon us
Have you planned for the Olympic turmoil in 2012?
31 October, 2011: Migrating to Exchange 2010 and email archiving options
According to recent research, Microsoft Exchange accounts for 65% of email servers in use in organisations today. Many of these are deployments of...
03 October, 2011: BSIMM Version 3 - A Joy to Behold!
The lastest version of BSIMM - Building Security in Maturity Model has just been released [27th September 2011].
03 October, 2011: Best practices for email archiving
Given the amount of business information that is contained in the multitude of emails received and sent every day and the need to preserve business...
29 August, 2011: The security challenges of modern data centres
To reduce complexity, a high proportion of organisations are looking at modernising their data centre infrastructure through consolidation,...
26 August, 2011: What did IPv6 Day prove?
IPv6 Day came and went without much fanfare. That is because, according to participants, it worked. True, there were a few problems encountered, but...
09 August, 2011: Whitelisting and change control for improving integrity
Taking back control in today's complex threat landscape. Today's security threats are complex and sophisticated and are getting ever harder to defend...
07 June, 2011: IPv6 Day
The internet protocol (IP) is the primary communications protocol for determining how data packets are routed around the internet and is responsible...
27 April, 2011: Secure Systems Development Conference - A Must See!
On Thursday 19th May 2011 I will be speaking at The 2nd International Secure Systems Development Conference in London on the subject of smartphone...
26 April, 2011: BBC Interviews Nigel Stanley on Phone Hacking
Another phone hacking story went live last week here
26 April, 2011: BBC Story on Bloor Research into Jihadists use of Smartphones
An interesting story from the BBC based on some research I have been doing with Nico Prucha based at the University of Vienna. We found jihadists...
13 April, 2011: Mobile Phone Hacking at Counter Terrorism Expo, London, April 2011
Join me at the Counter Terrorism Expo to be held in London on the 19th and 20th of April 2011.
09 March, 2011: What is the most secure smartphone?
If I had
23 February, 2011: DDoS attacks: coming to a network near you
DDoS attacks are increasing in size and sophistication and are increasingly targeted at organisations of all sizes. Cloud-based DDoS mitigation...
21 February, 2011: McAfee and Wind River - Blown Together Nicely
Life is moving fast in the world of mobile device security. With announcements this week at Mobile World Conference of ever more powerful smartphones...
16 February, 2011: Web security in an always-on world
Web-based threats are growing rapidly, but not all organisations have effective controls in place for web security, or even any at all. However, new...
11 February, 2011: Critical infrastructure under attack
With today's sophisticated and complex malware threats, only a proactive security stance is acceptable.
11 February, 2011: Sound Trojan for Smartphones
This is an interesting paper. It introduces some work called Soundminer, a stealthy and context-aware sound Trojan for smartphones. It explores the...
01 February, 2011: Charting the vendor landscape for web and email security
Today's threat landscape is complex. Hackers no longer lust for fame, rather looking for ways to make their fortune. Simple exploits, such as a...