Vigilance can report that the newly-rebranded Security Regulation Alliance which celebrated its one year anniversary recently has reinforced its unflinching support for a new regulatory regime for the security industry at the just concluded Security Industry Authority’s (SIA’s) Stakeholder Conference in Sheffield.
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Dominic Saunders Senior Vice President at Cryptzone gives an IT security expert’s view on best practice policy management
Striking the right balance between risk mitigation and the commercial demands of the business is an essential skill, which must be adapted according to the nature of your industry and the size, culture and risk appetite of your organisation. This role needs to have clear ownership at senior management level.
Below is a media alert from Jeff Hudson, CEO of Enterprise Key and Certificate Management (EKCM) solutions specialist Venafi, about the so-called Son of Stuxnet virus Duqu.
News and analysis started coming out recently about the Duqu Trojan and the threat which it represents. The two primary sources of information are McAfee and Symantec. Their posts have some notable differences about an important detail of the attack: how the creator of Duqu was able to get a bona fide certificate that allows Duqu to authenticate itself as trusted cod.
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Recent reports that Google has revealed its massive cloud computing energy footprint – which is notable for the potential size of the IT service giant's energy bill – miss the point that cloud computing offers businesses, and squeezed public sector organisations, not just a number of key advantages over conventional data centres and allied IT storage platforms, says Costas Galonis, Chief Technology Officer of Cirrus Stratus, but a fundamentally greener, planet-friendly agenda.
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