 The security threats facing highly secure defence organisations, space institutions, and government departments and agencies are numerous and seem to increase daily. Particular issues are receiving considerable attention, reflecting a real concern about the vulnerability of information:
- Effective information management that facilitates both productivity improvements and meets information security needs.
- Internal information risks and security awareness training. A large proportion of security breaches are caused by internal sources. Whilst some are malicious attacks from disgruntled staff, most are the result of human error.
- The multitude of regulatory and legal requirements that stipulate the way information is processed and stored can leave organisations vulnerable to penalties and even criminal liability, such as, for example, the Data Protection and Freedom of Information acts.
- Up-to-date software patches and virus systems are mandatory in light of the increasing sophistication and frequency of new attacks.
- The increase in cyber fraud and terrorism driven by cheap computing power and bandwidth and the explosion of online services.
In this section we present a small selection of articles and papers that were recently published or presented at conferences.
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 Securing Mobile Devices (98 kb)
This paper presents the security challenges, provides a brief review of system and PDA context, presents three main genres of threat and suggests high level countermeasures that can be used to manage the PDA risk.
Business Continuity Management (339 kb)
This paper provides an overview of what Business Continuity Management (BCM) means, why organisations need to do it and how an organisation should approach the planning, implementing and maintaining of a Business Continuity Plan.
Risk Management as part of the Business Continuity Process (44kb)
This paper examines how Risk Management and Business Continuity plans should be focused to ensure they are relevant to the most likely events and to maximise investment through adopting a structured risk analysis and management process.
Keeping your information legal (315 kb)
This short paper looks at potential Information Governance solutions for complying with the Freedom of Information Act.
If you would like to receive a hard copy of one of these papers, or want to find out about other publications in the field of information security, please feel free to contact us. In the near future we will extend this section with further publications.
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