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By Tanmay Dey
The Arab spring started with a single ordinary Tunisian fruit seller protesting against government atrocities. Yet it turned into the most potent revolution since the Russian revolution. In the best seller “freakonomics” the authors vociferously...
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By Jude Umeh
As promised in my last blog post, the focus this time is very much around the challenges of Intellectual Property, (esp. copyright), in a cloud context. Content protection is one thing, but establishing exactly what one can and can’t do with...
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By Jude Umeh
Following on from my previous post about storage in the cloud, the topic of content security, (aka how do you secure what is already stored in the cloud?), seemed like a natural next stop, hence this post no. 3 in the cloud series. What does it take...
Read moreRecent incidents around cyber security have taught us a few things: Stuxnet and its recent offspring called Duqu show how advanced modern cyber threats have become. Apparently, cyber threats can reach out to places were bombs can’t go and do...
Read moreAs you may be aware of there is a security standard named PCI DSS that aims to protect credit cards from being subject to fraud. It is a mandatory standard for every company that accepts credit card payments, issues credit cards or handle credit card...
Read moreA DMZ separates an external network from directly referencing an internal network. It does this by isolating the machine that is being directly accessed from all other machines. Most of the time the external network is the Internet and what is in the...
Read moreAs an information security professional, I do my best in making things as secure yet user-friendly as possible. I would say the ultimate goal of security professionals should be to make use of IT intrinsically secure: users should be protected...
Read moreEver wondered why the security could be breached even if you have a ton of security mechanisms? Most of the time the problem is not technical but a result of poor risk analysis. One reason why the risk analysis is poor is that it doesn´t take the...
Read moreEarlier this month a story went round that the GCHQ (responsible for Britain’s SIGINT activities) wants to monitor Britain’s most vital private networks for unusual network traffic. Prime Minister David Cameron invited a number of large companies...
Read moreLast week, Google introduced two-factor authentication to the masses. In short, this means that you can have your Gmail account protected by something you know (a password) and something you posses (e.g. a phone). With the continuous threat of...
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