Vigilance can report that the construction of the Royal Navy’s new Aircraft Carrier last week took a huge step forward as the Defence Secretary witnessed the installation of the ship’s navigation bridge.
During a visit to Rosyth shipyard in Scotland, Philip Hammond oversaw the 700 tonne section being lifted into place on the deck of HMS Queen Elizabeth.
London, UK: White Hat Rally has so far seen 15 teams, both corporate and some private, enter the 3 day pirates and smugglers themed driving challenge across Devon driving in ‘Pieces of V8’!
Teams from large and small UK Businesses, predominately in the Technology and Information security sectors, as well as some private teams and sponsoring companies will once again come together to support Barnardo’s in the fifth White Hat Rally motoring event which takes place on 21st to 23rd June 2013. The categories for entry include super cars, vintage cars, bangers and cars in fancy dress, so there is an option for everyone.
Are security tokens still relevant?The world of IT seems to like four-letter abbreviations: WLAN, SNMP, HTML – and the latest offering BYOD (Bring Your Own Device). Accessing corporate networks and data using private end terminals has, however, been an issue that has had many IT managers and managing directors scratching their heads. “How can we enable secure access for mobile devices without endangering our data?” One suitable approach is the use of a double layer of security which involves identifying users by means of tokenless two-factor authentication. This approach combines personal log in details, as the first factor, and a dynamic passcode received by smart phone, tablet or other mobile device, as the second.
What is the single most important way to improve endpoint security? According to Gartner’s Neil MacDonald, organizations should remove administrator rights from all users. Administrative rights on enterprise endpoints provide users with complete control over the device. These rights allow users to install software, change the Windows registry settings, change a wide variety of configuration files, and generally do whatever they want on the device.
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