If Spanish is the new French where does that leave Geek? The IT secur­ity industry loves its acronyms, why is anyone’s guess – maybe it’s a speed thing, perhaps it’s the whole idea of writing code or over­come lan­guage bar­ri­ers, I’ve even heard “it’s to do with saving band­width”, ...

Issues regard­ing day­light saving have high­lighted the need for more under­stand­ing of time and how it affects busi­ness con­tinu­ity and emer­gency plan­ning managers. This is a short tutorial cov­er­ing the basics of time zones, ISO Time Format and day­light saving. As can be appre­ci­ated ...

London, 21st January, 2010—Imperva, the leader in Data Secur­ity, announced today the release of study ana­lyz­ing 32 million pass­words recently exposed in the Rockyou.com breach.  Imperva’s Applic­a­tion Defense Center (ADC) ana­lyzed the strength of the pass­words in a report, Con­sumer ...

BS25999 is a stand­ard that estab­lishes the process, prin­ciples and ter­min­o­logy of busi­ness con­tinu­ity management.The stand­ard deals with broad goals and is there­fore non pre­script­ive so as to make it applic­able to small and large busi­ness and local or global organisations. The ...

BS 25999 is a busi­ness con­tinu­ity man­age­ment stand­ard developed by BSI and is used by busi­nesses glob­ally. The Depart­ment of Home­land Secur­ity (DHS) has announced its intent to adopt BS 25999 (which comes in two parts) on a trial basis as one of three stand­ards for use in the ...

Anyone who tells you that your IT network is “100% secure” is either a fool, or greatly mis­taken. Secur­ity is a moving target, and unfor­tu­nately, this target is being manip­u­lated by the bad guys. Forget the rear­view mirror: The bad guys are ahead of you Leave the lights on — always Don’t ...

BS25999-2:2007 requires a Busi­ness Con­tinu­ity Man­age­ment System (BCMS) be imple­men­ted, main­tained and improved. An organ­isa­tions busi­ness con­tinu­ity pro­gramme is defined in a man­age­ment system, termed the Busi­ness Con­tinu­ity Man­age­ment System or shortened to ...

BS25999 Part 2 is a Spe­cific­a­tion, not a Code of Prac­tice like Part 1. So what is the dif­fer­ence? Part 2 is a Spe­cific­a­tion and deals with ‘Shall’ rather than ‘Should’ as the Part 1 Code of Prac­tice does. Titled BS 25999–2:2007 Spe­cific­a­tion for busi­ness con­tinu­ity ...

Writing and testing a dis­aster recov­ery plan is one of the key ele­ments of busi­ness con­tinu­ity man­age­ment. Tra­di­tion­ally busi­ness con­tinu­ity and dis­aster recov­ery (DR) plan­ning have always been sep­ar­ated between the busi­ness and the inform­a­tion tech­no­logy ...

Ever­sheds have pub­lished a guid­ance doc­u­ment on the Human Resources implic­a­tions for pan­demic planning. While the recent media report­ing of swine flu has dwelt on the obvious health and safety issues, the threat of a pan­demic, whether now or in the next few months, also raises some ...