Category Archives: Security

Cyber liability insurance. Another Y2K or a new essential?

Mark Rogers looks at the huge and rapidly growing market for cyber liability insurance and the risks highlighted by those bringing these new products to market, to ask “Is this something we really need?” Cyber liability insurance, the insurance industry …read more

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EU Cyber Security Directive

Mark Rogers addresses growth and security and how a proposed EU Cyber Security Directive focussing on network and information security (NIS), must get the balance right. As usual, a proposed EU Cyber Security Directive, drafted by the European Commission, looks …read more

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BYOD in Schools – Taking Care of Security

Following Chris Gabriel’s examination of BYOD in Education, this follow up addresses some of the security issues faced by BYOD in schools. Earlier this year we discussed how an increasing number of schools are seeking to enliven the education experience …read more

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When flexible working met outsourcing

One ‘enterprising’ employee in the US last week reminded us of one the basic truths of IT security. Logicalis CEO Ian Cook looks at what happened when flexible working met outsourcing. At first glance, it is hard to know whether …read more

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Bring your own device (BYOD) is here to stay, but what about the risks?

James Tay, CEO at Logicalis Asia, considers the options when it comes to managing the data security risks associated with BYOD. Should it be the traditional Network Access Control (NAC) approach, the belt and braces of Mobile Device Management or …read more

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DNS Poisoning and the Enterprise

Fabio Hashimoto, Technology Manager at PromonLogicalis, gives us the low down on ‘DNS Poisoning’, a hacking technique exploiting inherent vulnerabilities in the internet technologies that are now commonplace in enterprise systems. First of all, what is DNS Poisoning? DNS Poisoning …read more

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