IT Risk Management

Maintaining a robust, secure and compliant environment

The modern business depends on its IT systems running 24×7 and being available to users wherever they are, whatever device they use. Electronic data has also become critical, and the need to secure, protect and govern it grows continuously as external threats become more ubiquitous and as regulatory demands ramp up. The availability and security of IT systems and data is now a board room concern.

Our Content:

It’s time to look again at IT and Software Asset Management

24 July 2023

In the realm of IT administration, it’s all too easy to get stuck in familiar[...]

Standardized solution implementation services

25 April 2023

Shorten time-to-value, reduce costs and risks, and future-proof your investment[...]

Digital identity: the many images of you

10 April 2023

More and more of the topics we deal with at Freeform Dynamics now also relate[...]

Trust: easy to lose, hard to recover

30 March 2023

Here are just a few of the topics that my fellow Freeformers and I have[...]

Getting real about IT sustainability

8 February 2023

From good intentions to tangible results through smart systems selection[...]

Have you made the right platform choices to minimise risk?

3 February 2023

Critical systems have to run and run…[...]

S/4HANA without compromise

15 December 2022

A modern ERP architecture needs a powerful and future-proof platform[...]

Digital identity and opening up the smartwallet

6 December 2022

When an 80 year-old relative asks you how she can use her phone to both[...]

Linux and sustainability

22 June 2022

The emerging role of modern, high-scale consolidation platforms[...]

Singing the key management blues

22 June 2022

We need cryptographic keys, but who is going to manage them?[...]

Why does ransomware still work?

20 December 2021

As someone who first encountered ransomware during the last millennium[...]

Ransomware teaches the importance of data protection

16 December 2021

Several years ago, around the time that ransomware attacks started making the front pages[...]

Forget the ‘free’ software, the real value of open-source is the collaboration

23 November 2021

Analyst Opinion: It’s a cliché, but why are we still reinventing wheels?[...]

Which is worse: noise, or the sound of silence?

10 November 2021

Analyst Opinion: If you’re one of the many people who find offices too noisy[...]

Achieving success with your S/4HANA proof of concept (POC)

26 August 2021

What to consider when selecting platforms, tools and services[...]

The business need for simpler storage

29 June 2021

What to consider when planning for modern IT in the hybrid cloud era[...]

How to boost supplier commitment without spending more money

15 June 2021

Time to tune into those non-revenue goals[...]

Data governance in software testing

6 May 2021

Throwback Thursday: this week we're going back to 2008[...]

The importance of modern data archiving

12 April 2021

In today’s business world, the value of archiving is greater than ever[...]

Covid quick fix payback time

15 December 2020

How long will people put up with the emergency fixes?[...]

Dispelling the myth of the industry-standard server

8 December 2020

What you thought you knew has changed[...]

Identity and access management revisited

26 November 2020

A changing world demands simplification and an urgent focus on security[...]

Zero Trust: securing the endpoint

12 November 2020

How continuous authentication could help secure the work-anywhere world[...]

A new perspective on the modern workplace

6 October 2020

Forward-looking lessons from real-life pandemic experiences[...]

Safe and Effective Remote Working

23 September 2020

Addressing immediate pandemic-related needs while laying foundations for the future[...]

Network security in the spotlight

10 September 2020

Understanding why it can go wrong is key to making the right investment decisions[...]

Lifecycle Management of HCI Systems

30 July 2020

Every element of the solution needs attention[...]

Why backup to flash

13 July 2020

Analyst Blog: There are some things that simply have to happen, no matter how modern[...]

Digital workspace disasters and how to beat them

8 July 2019

New roles for user management and app deployment in the digital workspace[...]

Managing Software Exposure

29 August 2018

Time to fully embed security into your application lifecycle[...]

Dealing with the GDPR Challenge Infographic

22 July 2018

The catalyst for a move to modern data protection[...]

Data Protection Revisited – Business

28 June 2018

A risk review and investment guide for business executives[...]

Data Protection Revisited – IT

28 June 2018

A risk review and investment guide for IT professionals[...]

All-in-one Data Protection

22 June 2018

Taking the pain out of information management[...]

GDPR: the Security Dimension

23 May 2018

Information security, governance and regulation in harmony[...]

What’s all the fuss about in-memory databases for IoT?

21 March 2018

Meeting the need for speed[...]

Data Management for a Digital World

19 March 2018

Turn GDPR compliance and ransomware defence to your advantage[...]

Causes of software development woes

13 February 2018

Respondents point the finger at ambiguous requirements[...]

Integrating Security Into the DNA of Your Software Lifecycle

2 February 2018

“Masters” move beyond pure risk management to focus on business growth[...]

Requirements-driven software development and quality management

1 February 2018

Removing the ambiguity from your delivery pipeline[...]

Information management is going mainstream – at last!

29 January 2018

Analyst opinion Some assumptions have been held by IT pros for so long that they[...]

GDPR’s latest gift? Class action privacy cases

29 January 2018

Analyst opinion Europeans will in future be able to bring US-style class actions for (alleged)[...]

Getting a grip on the GDPR

12 December 2017

Here's our tips on how to plan rather than panic[...]

So long, and thanks for all the phish

22 November 2017

How to avoid that hook at the end of a fraudster’s line[...]

Don’t Let an Outdated Software Strategy Hold You Back

14 September 2017

Yesterdays software delivery processes are not up to dealing with today’s demands, but modernising you[...]

Teach a user to (avoid a) phish…

25 June 2017

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Ransomware: Will your backup protect you?

16 June 2017

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Managing Application Security Risk

20 March 2017

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Enterprise file sync and share comes of age

20 March 2017

The enterprise file sync and share market has truly come of age, with products and[...]

Managing Web and Mobile Security Risk

18 March 2017

Securing the applications and services that underpin your online and mobile presence is one thing,[...]

Rethinking long term data management

1 February 2017

The emerging role of active archiving[...]

Managing Cloud Complexity

1 January 2017

The emerging role of converged services[...]

IT Decision-Making in the Digital Age

3 December 2016

Making the right technology investments in today’s fast moving digital age can mean the difference[...]

Protecting data in your hyper-converged environment

7 November 2016

In a nutshell Hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) has been gaining popularity as a way of simplifying[...]

A peek behind the AI bandwagon

10 October 2016

When an important topic or trend gives rise to a marketing and media bandwagon, any[...]

Data encryption must be a priority for the digital business

18 August 2016

Organizations large and small are investing in digital transformation programs, cloud migration projects, and enterprise[...]

Intelligent Systems in Action

6 July 2016

As technology becomes smarter, more opportunities arise to exploit AI, machine learning and other forms[...]

Cyber Security Ownership and Responsibility

14 March 2016

It’s easy to be caught out by a cyber attack or internal mistake that leads[...]

APIs and the Digital Enterprise

4 March 2016

Application programming interfaces (APIs) have been around for decades. In the early days of IT[...]

Building a Curated Digital Hub

1 March 2016

In a nutshell In today’s online business environment, with data spread broadly and widely, making[...]

Tackling End User Content Sprawl

1 March 2016

In a nutshell The problem of content sprawl has been around since the early days[...]

Readers of The Register speak out on Thin Client technology

15 February 2016

Managing PC estates is a time-consuming, expensive and thankless task. Better provisioning and management tools[...]

Network Security Solutions

30 November 2015

IT Security is complex and trying to work out whether it is better to use[...]

Data Protection and Management in a Box

30 September 2015

In today’s fast-moving, information-intensive business environment, data management is more of a challenge than ever.[...]

Taking Cyber Security to the Next Level

30 September 2015

As cyber security threats become more sophisticated, targeted and persistent, it’s no longer possible to block[...]

Mobile Security and the Challenge of User Resistance

23 September 2015

Mobile security is becoming more of a headache as the crossover between business and personal[...]

Future Proofing Your Network

1 September 2015

Network traffic flows have become pretty complex in today’s distributed business environment, and not just[...]

Cloud and Security Challenges

1 September 2015

Cloud adoption is taking place in organisations of all sizes. Internal cloud systems are being[...]

Cloud Security Temperature Check

1 June 2015

In a recent online survey in which responses were gathered from almost three hundred IT[...]

What scares you most about ‘the cloud’?

1 June 2015

Cloud computing has gone mainstream. While a hard-core of naysayers still exists, the black-and-white negative[...]

Eight Best Practices for Cloud Security

1 March 2015

There’s been a lot of FUD spread around in recent years on the subject of[...]

Data Protection and RAID

18 February 2015

Rapid data growth, a greater emphasis on operational risk and developments in storage hardware are[...]

Hyper-Scale Data Management

17 February 2015

The term ‘Software Defined Storage’ is used to describe a wide range of ideas and[...]

The ’feel-good’ factor is good for business

12 February 2015

People who feel good while doing their job tend to work better, contribute more and[...]

Snooper-proofing laptops and tablets?

5 February 2015

Given how important the company’s data is and the ever more stringent nature of the[...]

A new approach to verifying user identity

21 January 2015

By Tony Lock We all know that trying to authenticate our users when they access[...]

21st century data protection: Get back up to date

10 December 2014

In this webcast discover how you create a new architecture for backup and recovery, how[...]

The challenges of application security

26 November 2014

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Security policy and EU data protection regulation

6 November 2014

Websense research finds that 40% of UK security professionals never speak to their executive board[...]

Disaster Recovery for the masses

7 October 2014

Most organisations, even SMBs, have some sort of plans to deal with recovery from disasters,[...]

Manage security in real time

29 September 2014

You face more, and more dangerous threats every day – drive-by infections, APTs, executive targeted[...]

Do more of your apps deserve better DR?

17 September 2014

What does IT disaster recovery (DR) mean to you? Does it bring to mind racks[...]

The Democratization of IT Disaster Recovery

9 September 2014

If it has been a while since you thought about your DR measures, or a[...]

Have you planned for a ’friendly’ DDoS attack?

19 August 2014

Malicious Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks do not occur often. Nevertheless, for an enterprise[...]

Mobile security is more than protecting local data

6 June 2014

By now we’ve all heard the term Bring Your Own Device (BYOD). This phenomenon is[...]

What are APT’s?

4 June 2014

What is an APT? APT stands for Advanced Persistent Threat. The goal of this form[...]

Say What?

4 June 2014

Recently I attended the IBM Security Systems Analyst Meet the Experts day in Heathrow. With[...]

Security: the oft-forgotten dimension

30 May 2014

Computer security is a hot topic today, and much talked about. There are endless emanations[...]

Computer Security: Knowing What You Don’t Know

22 April 2014

100 per cent security is a fantasy: you will be attacked by both known and[...]

The State of Network Infrastructure

11 March 2014

By Tony Lock Networks are the glue that allow users to function effectively in their[...]

The Death of the Corporate Network Perimeter

10 March 2014

By Tony Lock In a recent survey over 400 respondents gave us the inside track[...]

Juggling Performance, Availability and Security

13 February 2014

By Tony Lock A recent report from Freeform Dynamics illustrates that many corporate networks are[...]

Controlling Application Access

31 January 2014

Application performance, availability and security challenges are quietly creeping up in the context of internal[...]

The Security Education Dilemma

9 January 2014

By Charles Brett Security covers many dimensions, including the physical and logical. As such many[...]

Are we barking up the wrong mobile data protection tree?

21 November 2013

By Charles Brett Professional IT prefers disciplined approaches which back up, or copy, all enterprise[...]

Software Defined Networking (SDN) continues to move forwards

31 October 2013

By Charles Brett and Tony Lock During an Analyst Briefing at the IBM Development Laboratory[...]

The Business Value of Data Protection

10 October 2013

By Tony Lock The data held in every business is valuable and in the current[...]

Device Proliferation and Data Fragmentation

11 September 2013

By Tony Lock Bring your own device (BYOD) continues to attract considerable attention, but the[...]

Data fragmentation challenges for CIOs

8 August 2013

By Tony Lock A recent survey by Freeform Dynamics confirmed that access to accurate information[...]

The End User Security Jigsaw

6 August 2013

Organisations of all sizes are trying to understand the security implications of mobile working, device[...]

The Data Protection Imperative

25 July 2013

In this short paper, we spell out why the time has come to adopt a[...]

Data Protection as a Business Enabler

25 July 2013

While the importance of business information is almost universally recognised, few organisations have enjoyed either[...]

Storage Anywhere and Everywhere

26 June 2013

With more departmental applications, collaboration and sharing environments, and even cloud-based services, with access via[...]

Managing expanding business – Critical Linux workloads

22 May 2013

Evidence from users in the real world shows that for large workloads, the mainframe offers[...]

DCIM and Energy Management

13 May 2013

By Tony Lock Over several decades IT management has focussed almost exclusively on keeping servers[...]

Workload placement in a hybrid world

1 May 2013

Research shows that you are going to mix your platforms and deployment models in the[...]

Security, privacy and data protection

12 April 2013

By Tony Lock Many businesses today are faced with the challenge of rapidly fluctuating operating[...]

Your local Public Cloud

4 March 2013

By Andrew Buss A few weeks back we looked at the role that private and[...]

Freedom without Anarchy

14 February 2013

Empowering employees through the delegation of authority and trust can enhance innovation and productivity. But[...]

Analytics and Big Data

11 December 2012

By Tony Lock ‘Big Data’ is a hot topic receiving considerable attention from the marketing[...]

Why you need an interactive archive

6 December 2012

Many organisations today only archive data when there is some external legislative driver forcing their[...]

Big Data and Analytics

8 November 2012

Results of a web survey illustrate the state of business information and analytics today. Just[...]

A more intelligent approach to security

18 October 2012

At the RSA Conference 2012 in London, one of the key themes to emerge was[...]

Datacentre in a box – Something for everyone?

12 October 2012

CIOs have a tough job delivering an expanding range of services to ever more demanding[...]

The Big Data Revolution

11 October 2012

Big Data suffers misuse but at its heart is really about getting more value from[...]

What should CIOs be demanding of Storage Vendors?

21 September 2012

In most organisations the acquisition of storage and its associated management tools was, until recently,[...]

Personal Use of a Windows Tablet in Business – It’s ready for operational use

18 September 2012

There is no doubt that “Tablet” devices and “Slates” are attracting a lot of attention[...]

Agility without anxiety

18 September 2012

Dale Vile met up with Perforce’s Mark Warren to discuss how to do agile development[...]

The Rise of User Centric IT – Is the consumerisation of IT a benefit to anyone?

12 September 2012

There is a long history of end users wanting, or ‘needing’, to have ‘different’ tools[...]

Balancing storage efficiency and data security

27 August 2012

We know from our many studies that most IT organisations are stretched operationally while having[...]

Siloed approach to IT security increases business risk

6 August 2012

It is said that the technology at the heart of IT changes at a bewildering[...]

Playing the SLA long game

27 July 2012

By Dale Vile When IT is your day job it’s easy to lose sight of[...]

Private Cloud Forecast – Sunny or Stormy times ahead for CIOs?

20 July 2012

Businesses are still operating under enormous economic pressure and, as would be expected, this continues[...]

Analyst Headlines: Securing the Data Center

16 July 2012

Andrew Buss share’s his views on the significance of a simplified Data Center architecture. This[...]

Behind the Headlines: Securing the Data Center

16 July 2012

Andrew Buss share’s his views on the significance of a simplified Data Center architecture. This[...]

Analyst Headlines: Securing the Access

16 July 2012

Andrew Buss discusses the impact of the mega trends such as the Consumerization of IT[...]

Behind the Headlines: Securing the Access

16 July 2012

Andrew Buss discusses the impact of the mega trends such as the Consumerization of IT[...]

Analyst Headlines: Securing the Wide Area

16 July 2012

Andrew Buss discusses how security needs to become embedded and automated within the network and[...]

Behind the Headlines: Securing the Wide Area

16 July 2012

Andrew Buss discusses how security needs to become embedded and automated within the network and[...]

BPM from back office to front office and beyond

29 June 2012

Are you tough enough to take on BPM and win? Someone has to. It has[...]

Energy Aware Planning and Decision Making

30 May 2012

Energy availability and management is increasingly becoming an important agenda item for IT leaders, but[...]

Seven enablers of effective disaster recovery for SMEs

29 May 2012

By Tony Lock In a nutshell: Recent research carried out by Freeform Dynamics identified seven[...]

Key points to highlight when selling storage

23 April 2012

Organisations of all shapes and sizes are struggling to deal with the rapid growth of[...]

Fast Forward to Big Data

19 April 2012

Does ’cloud’ have a roll in providing customers with access to new data sources to[...]

The great DR divide

24 March 2012

Business continuity solutions only for large organisations? IT vendors and consulting firms who sell disaster[...]

User Virtualization – Moving beyond device-centric computing

27 February 2012

When business IT was young and channel partners had plenty of hardware margins to play[...]

Winners and losers in the information race

25 January 2012

The mainstream media generally portrays the financial services industry as being in a total mess,[...]

The secrets of effective disaster recovery

19 January 2012

There’s no magic bullet, but there’s a formula Many IT and business executives groan when[...]

Closing the SMB security gap

17 January 2012

It’s got the point where the majority of small and medium businesses (SMBs) take the[...]

Data retention, FOI and the storage budget

9 November 2011

The data retention policy in too many organisations has historically boiled down to ‘keep everything[...]

The storage boom and bust cycle

3 November 2011

More data more often than not means more disks. It was ever thus – but[...]

The consumerisation of IT: it’s a trickle, not a tide, but you still need to be ready

2 November 2011

If media headlines and vendor claims are to be believed, organisations today are faced with[...]

Enabling Rapid and Effective IT Recovery

31 October 2011

IT vendors have traditionally targeted the lucrative large enterprise market with their data protection and[...]

Disaster Recovery in European SMBs

30 October 2011

By Tony Lock, Martha Bennett and Dale Vile KEY POINTS The term ‘disaster recovery’ is[...]

The Consumerisation of IT (Slides)

11 October 2011

Audience – IT & Business professionals Occasion – VMUG Meeting, Leeds, October 2011 Presenter(s) –[...]

The SME security challenge

28 September 2011

Over the years, research findings have consistently demonstrated widespread exposure to risk when it comes[...]

Time to get serious about managing security

6 July 2011

Do you know what’s running in your network? In this time of ever increasing security[...]

Compliance: The legal landscape and how to navigate it

24 May 2011

Every IT professional recognises the importance of securing the IT systems on which critical business[...]

The evolution of desktop security

13 April 2011

The operating habits of users render passwords as the primary mechanism to secure any application[...]

The workload challenge

7 April 2011

Today, IT Infrastructure is evolving at a tremendous pace. The Mainframe computer, now often referred[...]

RSA hack demonstrates need for proactive security and multi-layer protection

22 March 2011

The recent news that RSA Security suffered a security attack and breach that resulted in[...]

Trust and security in the cloud

17 March 2011

By Andrew Buss & Dale Vile KEY FINDINGS Many companies could do much better when[...]

The realities of SaaS and Security

15 March 2011

With upgrades to Windows 7 and Office 2010 high on the agenda, questions are being[...]

SaaS suppliers are no black box, evaluation is key

15 February 2011

An aspect of cloud computing that is often overlooked is supplier evaluation and management. We[...]

SaaS security: it comes down to knowing what you are doing

15 February 2011

A lot of things have happened recently that may cause us to think twice about[...]

SaaS providers – The good, the bad and the ugly

9 February 2011

Interested in software as a service (SaaS) but worried about the risks to your information?[...]

Buying into the cloud

28 January 2011

A lot of companies are reporting that individual departments and even business users are adopting[...]

Software as a service can breed dependency so choose suppliers with care

27 January 2011

Cloud computing is frequently likened to utility services such as electricity, water or gas. If[...]

The weakest link in Software as a Service

26 January 2011

The delivery of cloud based application functionality via the Software as a Service (SaaS) model[...]

Secure your departmental apps

17 January 2011

Throughout a workshop on The Register, we’ve been looking at resiliency and security for hosted[...]

What you think about SaaS

14 January 2011

Throughout a workshop conducted on The Register, we have been looking at the factors that[...]

Whose data is it anyway?

7 January 2011

Losing control of one’s data is among the first concerns that arise when software as[...]

Putting the SaaS into security management

22 December 2010

In all areas of business, security and privacy are built on good policy, properly applied.[...]

Is cloud data secure?

17 December 2010

Would your data be more secure in the hands of Google or left where it[...]

A question of performance

16 December 2010

Software as a service (SaaS) promises a lot but many are still nervous about relying[...]

Trust and risk in the cloud

15 December 2010

Stick enough kit and multi-tenant software in one huge data centre and there is no[...]

What is the point of End Point Protection?

29 November 2010

How we should be protecting our PCs Security threats have existed for almost as long[...]

The alternatives to password protection

23 November 2010

In a world where it is possible to create credential-stealing malware and where users are[...]

The perception and reality of cloud security

21 November 2010

Some back to front thinking in evidence? One of the most frequent concerns about cloud[...]

Modern solutions to an ever-growing challenge

16 November 2010

What could be new about backup and recovery? After all, everyone has been doing it[...]

Disaster recovery blurs into high availability (or other way round?)

9 November 2010

IT managers use two terms when talking about systems availability. These are: High Availability or[...]

Shaping your next desktop upgrade

1 November 2010

The economic downturn caused many companies to delay their desktop and notebook refresh plans, but[...]

The industrialisation of the IT Threat Landscape

28 October 2010

Business and IT are now changing with a rapidity never before seen while at the[...]

CIOs and ’Data Protection’

18 October 2010

By Tony Lock The rapid growth in the amount of stored data means that the[...]

Data encryption adoption represents a significant opportunity

8 October 2010

By Andrew Buss Data protection continues to be a top of mind subject for many[...]

Keys to data encryption adoption

1 October 2010

Data protection remains top-of-mind for many companies. Data losses continue across both public and private[...]

The threat and promise of server virtualisation security

27 September 2010

Given that IT security is all about understanding, and mitigating risks, it is inevitably going[...]

Moving beyond user rights – Protecting data first

17 September 2010

It goes without saying that IT systems should, in principle, be secured so that only[...]

Is there a case for encrypting backups?

10 September 2010

For most organisations, backups form an essential part of the day to day activities of[...]

Managing IT and business risk in the times of eroding enterprise boundaries

27 August 2010

Managing risk in business has always been more of an art form than a science.[...]

Solvency II: Threat or Opportunity?

29 July 2010

By Dale Vile and Jon Collins INTRODUCTION The emergence of new regulation always presents a[...]

Collaboration, complexity and compliance

22 July 2010

The trouble with some terms we use in IT is that they take on a[...]

Who cares about encryption?

20 July 2010

We’re used to getting a hundred or so responses from the mini-polls we run, but[...]

The terror beyond the firewall

19 July 2010

“The office” is fast becoming, for many organisations, a thing of the past – at[...]

Doing the right thing on ID management isn’t enough. It’s proving that you did it

16 July 2010

In a previous article we looked at Identity Management and access provisioning as an end[...]

Those demanding mobile users

9 July 2010

For years, when we asked Reg readers what worried them about mobile, “security” was top[...]

The cloud’s impact on security?

1 July 2010

We tried to get through this workshop without using the five letter C-word, but we[...]

Mobile technology and security

30 June 2010

By Josie Sephton In a nutshell: The issue of security when thinking about flexible working[...]

Threat or opportunity?

30 June 2010

By Martin Atherton In a nutshell: When it comes to data protection and information security[...]

Driving With the Brakes On

30 June 2010

By Jon Collins In a nutshell: While much attention around information risk is on medium[...]

Security – policies, processes and people

29 June 2010

The problem with building foolproof systems, so the saying goes, is that the world seems[...]

Does business really care about security?

28 June 2010

I once read a book that said, among other things, “You can never truly give[...]

Delivering on data governance – Making sure IT’s glass is half full

4 June 2010

Data governance can be dismissed as ‘applied common sense’, or balked at as an impossible[...]

Should we be encrypting backups?

1 June 2010

We all know that data protection regulations are gaining teeth. As we discussed before, it[...]

Is it possible to measure IT Security?

28 May 2010

It is a commonly held principle in many areas of business that if you can’t[...]

Delivering a secure information infrastructure

18 May 2010

I recently had the task of writing an explanatory paper about Good Practice Guide (GPG)[...]

Protective Monitoring

12 May 2010

by Jon Collins and Martin Atherton MAIN POINTS CESG (Communications and Electronic Security Group) Good[...]

The impact of virtualisation on securing systems

12 May 2010

Virtualisation has become an established trend in the x86 server market and is moving into[...]

Using systems management tools in IT security

11 May 2010

Every IT professional recognises the importance of securing the IT systems that are now at[...]

The evolving role of the IT security manager

10 May 2010

Security has long been the poor cousin of IT. As any security professional knows, the[...]

Securing Your Network

30 April 2010

In this three part podcast Jason Stamper, editor at CBR, talks to Jon Collins and[...]

Data security strategies and drivers

29 April 2010

Audience – Sales and pre-sales audience selling to large enterprises and government Occasion – Annual[...]

Security: Get the board on board

27 April 2010

While the principles of IT security are relatively timeless and straightforward to understand, technology itself[...]

Rethinking security. Just what are you trying to secure?

26 April 2010

Ask any IT manager, business leader or regulator and they will tell you that IT[...]

Application Retirement: What about the Data?

22 April 2010

by Jon Collins and Martin Atherton Introducing application retirement: what’s really important to you? Whatever[...]

Should all hard drives be encrypted?

19 April 2010

Given the origins of computing in the coding and decoding of messages, it’s fair to[...]

Securing the Un-securable?

19 March 2010

Audience – IT security practitioners and academics Occasion – BCS Information Security Special Interest Group[...]

Dedication to regulation

11 March 2010

By Martin Atherton Regulation is a fact of life and business. The signs are that[...]

Virtualisation and Security

1 March 2010

As x86 / x64 server virtualisation moves into everyday operations, what impact does it have[...]

Data protection and identity management – are you sure you’re safe?

6 January 2010

Data protection is an essential area for businesses, and an increasingly critical one to deal[...]

Is your data safe – and accessible?

6 January 2010

Data protection has been a requirement and an obligation for organisations of all sizes since[...]

Threat predictions for 2010

19 November 2009

Jon Collins and Paul Wood of MessageLabs give their predictions for the coming year on[...]

How bad are the bad guys?

6 November 2009

By Jon Collins The Internet has come a long way since its rudimentary beginnings as[...]

Looking at the threat landscape – It’s getting scary out there….

16 September 2009

Jon Collins and MessageLabs’ Paul Wood examine some of the current threats we all face,[...]

Delivering on identity and access management

5 August 2009

By Jon Collins At a recent panel event involving senior security managers and chief information[...]

Making IT Work In The Real World

2 July 2009

Most organisations run a mix of systems in their IT infrastructure. One of the challenges[...]

IT security and Governance

18 June 2009

By Jon Collins It has sometimes been said that in Information Technology, the emphasis has[...]

Data Retention

5 January 2009

by Jon Collins and Martin Atherton Earlier last year we conducted some research on the[...]

Resiliency in the Real World

26 November 2008

by Tony Lock A recent report by Freeform Dynamics shows that IT systems fail. What‟s[...]

The Impact of IT Security Attitudes

22 September 2008

by Jon Collins Much has been written about the existence of various threats, internal and[...]

Email resiliency and the SMB

12 August 2008

by Martin Atherton For most businesses, IT is linked to multiple facets of activity: product[...]

Secure USB

28 July 2008

by Jon Collins When the USB standard was first launched, few would have imagined the[...]

Risk and Resilience

28 June 2008

The application availability gamble The modern business is highly dependent on IT. When systems go[...]

What governance can really mean to business

16 June 2008

by Martin Atherton Governance is a term you’ll have heard bandied about a lot, usually[...]

Data Governance in the Software Lifecycle

30 May 2008

by Martin Atherton, Jon Collins and Dale Vile Many organisations have been driving improvements in[...]

Data Governance in Software Testing

29 May 2008

by Jon Collins In the research report Data Governance in the Software Lifecycle we consider[...]

Information Governance

22 February 2008

by Martin Atherton and Jon Collins Forward thinking organisations no longer just talk about governance,[...]

Security no longer just about hackers

31 July 2007

by Jon Collins I went to a fascinating panel session a couple of weeks ago,[...]

Centrally Managed Protection of Critical Business Content

1 April 2007

By Jon Collins and David Perry The last few years have seen a revolution in[...]

Managing Access Securely

31 July 2006

Authentication that works for the evolving organisation[...]