Articles

Welcome to the new SC articles area. Here you will find white papers and opnion pieces from the vendor community.

The Holy Grail of Infosecurity

Jason Holloway 18/05/2007

What are the serious IT and information security lessons to be learnt from the Monty Python team's best-loved movie? Jason Holloway, VP marketing for SIEM vendor ExaProtect, takes up the quest.

How Key Management Will Shape the Future of Storage Security

Henk Jan Spajnaard 24/04/2007

The security of stored data is becoming increasingly important, with numerous security breaches, such as TJ Maxx and Nationwide indicating that businesses need to prioritise the protection of their data before a breach occurs. As storage security moves up the business agenda it is also important to recognise that decisions made today will have a big impact in the future. This article will outline how key management is one of those critical business decisions.

Measuring the Effectiveness of Security using ISO 27001

Steve Wright 05/03/2007

Whilst the intentions and objectives behind ISO/IEC 27001:2005 (ISO 27001) aren’t dramatically different to those in BS 7799-2:2002, one of the changes with the biggest potential impact to organisations is the requirement to measure the effectiveness of selected controls – or groups of controls – within the new Standard (for more details see ISO 27001 Clause 4.2.2 d).