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Do You Speak 2010 Geek?
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”, ...
Working with Time Zones
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 ...
Imperva Releases Detailed Analysis of 32 Million Breached Consumer Passwords
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 ...
What is BS25999?
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 ...
Department of Homeland Security and BS25999
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 ...
5 Security Truths
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 BCMS Summary
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 ...
Achieving BS25999 Certification
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 ...
How to Create and Test Effective Disaster Recovery Plans
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 Issues Guidance on HR Pandemic Issues
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 ...
