Personal security or body guarding is a rapidly growing field. Also known as close personal protection or executive protection, personal security generally refers to measures taken to ensure the safety of VIPs or other individuals who may be exposed to elevated personal risk.
In this article, Christos K. Dimitriadis, international vice president of ISACA, looks at how IT security can be a major driver for business and an enabler of innovation.
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For years, many enterprises have viewed IT security as a costly extra that has to be endured and that does not produce value for the enterprise. The past two years, however, have shown that this attitude is one that can be fundamentally flawed. Even multinational enterprises have suffered data breaches and have lost substantial sums of money as a result.
In recent reports it has been found that SHA1, a widely used cryptographic algorithm used to secure sensitive websites, software, and corporate servers is weak enough that well-financed criminals could crack it in the next six years.
Vigilance can report that on 25th October 2012, Corps Security will be hosting an open day at its state of the art Alarm Receiving Centre (ARC) in Glasgow. The ARC provides an uninterrupted 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year service, offering intruder alarm, lone worker and CCTV based monitoring services for companies of all sizes in a variety of sectors. The open day will demonstrate fully integrated end-to-end security solutions to customers, including Access Control, Intruder Alarms, CCTV and Control Centre functions.
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