Article Archive for June 2009
Employees don’t give two hoots about security or security policies. They share passwords with colleagues; they share work devices with others without supervision; they transfer files from their laptop to home computer; they use their …
Some years ago, I read Covey’s book ‘Seven Habits of Highly Succesful People’. The message above all others that I took away from it was that the most succesful people ‘invested’ in building and maintaining …
On the 22nd June I posted about the importance of securing the human element in an organization, and in that same week, the universe, or more correctly cyberspace, decided to provide a real world example of …
Email archiving is important for organizations that have to comply with legislation and regulations regarding the archiving of electronic mail for eDiscovery reasons and other legal issues. Therefore deciding which email archiving technology to implement …
Security is a very broad subject and unfortunately one that doesn’t deal in absolutes. There is no magic pill, no consultant who can tell you just use this and you’ll be totally secure, and if …
Cycling to work this morning for this first time since last month’s accident, I was wondering what I’d write about this morning. As it happened I was cycling through Dundee Centre past the main offices …
In sales, understanding your clients’ needs plays an instrumental role in determining what it is that you’re going to sell them. It also sets the stage for how you’re going to then position those services.
One …
One aspect of security that is often overlooked is the Human Element. People are a factor in IT infrastructure and as such are also a possible attack vector. Business organizations should take this aspect of …
David Kelleher, communications and research analyst at GFI Software discusses how GFI are helping SMBs to recognize the importance of investing further in their security.
The main cause of the problem lies in the attitude that …
A random thought popped into my (mostly empty) head this morning. During the last few years that I was running my IT company, I changed from being very nervous when asking for money to being much more comfortable.Â
I think the turning …
