Risk Management

Community-organised hacker conference, Ruxcon, is aiming to attract a ‘more diverse field’ of attendees to its annual event in November. The gap between security risks and our ability to tackle them is set to rise. Tim Callan, vice president of SSL product marketing at VeriSign, has claimed that there is too much dependency on people's knowledge when it comes to security. Human error is the main security issue for IT directors, according to research from Clavister. Security firm Sans Institute is asking developers to volunteer for a new research project due to launch in the coming months.  

 

There are three key objectives to keep in mind for determining the success of any roles-based access and identity management initiative, says Deepak Taneja. Managing firewall rule sets and policies is a complex and messy business. Simply following a few best practices can go a long way to simplify your life, cut costs, and improve security. Managing expectations and supporting employees during a period of organisational change can only enhance the ability to cope with the associated uncertainty. The fourth annual Gartner IT Security Summit kicks off this month and SC met with Andrew Walls, Gartner's local security analyst, for a sneak peak at the event's hot topics. At the rate data breaches occur, it might be easier for everyone to just post their private information straight to the web.  

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