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The contours of the finger, the patterns of the iris and the shape of the hand can all be used to provide strong authentication, but are these – and other – …

Breaking into corporate networks, and thereby corporate information, has never been easier. Why? Firstly, access to systems (usually Windows) at the desktop is universal. …

2005 has already seen spammers and virus writers become more shrewd, more malicious, more sophisticated and more hungry for commercial gain. The potential damage that this …

Secure storage of data has always been essential for any organisation, of whatever size. In the past this involved accurate filing of paper records, and then keeping the …

In today’s electronic world, email is critical to any business being competitive. In most cases it now forms the backbone of most organisations’ day-to-day …

Start-up company Acunetix recently released Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner: a tool to automatically audit website security. Acunetix WVS 2 crawls an entire website, …

This article explores the trends that are creating requirements for a strategic – rather than a tactical – approach to information security, patch and …

Much of an information security professional’s job involves keeping outsiders away from the internal network. A great deal of time and money is spent on firewalls and …

The recent publication of the authoritative Acas and DTI sponsored workplace employment relations survey (WERS) 2004, highlighted the fact that the number of workplaces …

The age of wireless computing has brought unprecedented freedom and mobility for computer systems users in a variety of circumstances. Even in the home setting, a wireless …

Provisioning is the job of ensuring that, at all times during their career with an employer, staff have all of the necessary access privileges, equipment and other IT …

There seems to be a new important security patch out for Linux every month, lots of “do not use this program” warnings, too many articles and books with too little …