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The oxymoron of security and risk management #infosec12

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Understanding users – part 2

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Know your users, know yourself

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When will we understand infosecurity risk?

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Knowing the unknown

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Duplicated, Dangerous, Data and it’s terrible cost for your business

Duplicated, Dangerous, Data and it’s terrible cost for your business

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Making sense of the ISACA certification minefield Part 2: Alternatives to ISACA

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Making sense of the ISACA certification minefield: Part 1

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The 60 second guide to the ISO 27000 series of Information Security Standards

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Looking the other way

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Are we at risk of looking away and missing the action? Legal and regulatory pressure is risking turning security into a tick-box exercise. Boards rely on security professionals to deliver on corporate issues such as compliance without forgetting the underlying risks. Changes such as the European Commission proposals on Data Protection will only increase the [...]

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A fe days ago I suggested that understanding a user base starts with ourselves. Of course, that doesn’t mean ignoring tools that allow you to build on that understanding, after all, politicians are customers of the state but still use polling every day. Fortunately, there is no shortage of good tools available to bring security [...]

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