Small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs) are as reliant on IT as large enterprises, but have to manage their IT infrastructure with fewer people, who will often lack specialist skills. They need products that are easy to implement and manage but they can not be expected to invest time and money in extensive maintenance. SMBs' systems and processes will soon become outdated unless there is a high degree of automation. This report looks at the state of health of the use of IT by SMBs and considers how they can better protect their IT and data assets. SMB managers who read this report should be better armed to engage in discussions with their IT suppliers. ...
01/01/2005 | Protecting_the_assets.pdf | VIEW
Banks and other financial institutions tend to be slightly ahead of their counterparts in their use of advanced network technologies and network security. This is not surprising given the sensitivity of the data they deal with and the degree to which they have to share their data with external organisations. ...
15/03/2008 | Security relies on new technologies (banks and data leak prevention).pdf | VIEW
Protection against external hackers has moved from securing against students and techies just trying things out to protecting against organised crime and intellectual property theft. ...
07/06/2009 | Checkpoint - Infosecurity Mag Webinar on IPS June 2009.pdf | VIEW
Security is often seen as "top of mind", but "bottom of pocket". Ensuring that the business sees security as an investment is difficult. ...
13/06/2009 | Checkpoint user conference - Security ROI print or pdf version - June 2009.pdf | VIEW
The online world does not look like it will be getting any safer in 2007. The number of web-based threats continues to grow: spyware, phishing sites, viruses and so on. Meanwhile the volume of spam continues to increase - not just the number of messages but also their size as picture, video and sound files are increasingly attached to spam to entice users to activate malware. ...
18/12/2006 | The web at work.pdf | VIEW
How can an electronic identity be trusted? ...
11/02/2009 | Oracle IdM Feb 2009.pdf | VIEW
This presentation was given at the Trend Micro European partner summit in March 2008. It looks at the new opportunities that IT security provides resellers and integrators and also at what threats there to their current business. ...
12/03/2008 | Quocirca for Trend Micro conf Mar 12 2008.pdf | VIEW
This presentation was given at an Information Age webinar in April 2007. It looks at how IT security is moving away from the firewall to content itself as organisations undergo the process of deperimeterisation. ...
04/04/2007 | Quocirca slides Info Age - Postini seminar.pdf | VIEW
The last article covered how organisations are faced with a complex, intertwined and often changing set of laws, rules and regulations that often pull against each other. The biggest problem for many organisations is in layering the needs of one set of regulations against the needs of another - without breaking the previous one. At a legal level, it is hard enough, yet solving the legal issues may have massive benefits to the organisation when it comes to the facilitation of business processes, as well as securing intellectual property assets across and beyond the organisation. ...
31/12/2009 | COA - article 2.pdf | VIEW
RFID and its close cousin near field communications (NFC) have both been touted for great and sexy futuristic applications. These range from the tagging and tracking of all consumer goods to the conversion of mobile phones into all purpose 'super wallets' where simply waving the phone at the checkout would pay for your items. ...
04/12/2009 | QUO NFC RFID.pdf | VIEW
