Speaking and Conferences

Webinars and Lectures

Wendy will be participating in the February ISACA webinar (hosted by Bright-talk).

Forthcoming Conferences

EuroCacs in Budapest, Mar 2010 - Wendy will be speaking on selling Information Security to the Marketing Department, in "Fridges to the Eskimos" and Matthew will be talking about the need for careful planning when disposing of information storage devices in "Destroy for Victory."

SecureCloud in Barcelona, Mar 2010 - Wendy will be discussing "In the cloud, out of mind" -  looking at the challenge of caring about virtual data.

Recent Events.

Matthew and Wendy both spoke at the 3rd  Athens International Forum on Security - speaking on "Corporate and Personal Privacy – Your Employees and their Facebook Accounts" and "Fearing Empowerment", respectively.

 Wendy's BrightTalk webinar on Data Loss Prevention can be found here and Matthew's slides for his presentation to Strathclyde University can be found here.

 

 

 

Matthew's Musings

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Wendy's Thoughts

 7th September 2009

 If you use Facebook and other social networking sites you will be familiar with the adverts and downloads which are available. 

These can easily draw in the unsuspecting user who might, amongst other things, be duped into downloading malware onto their machine.  

I appreciate why Theo Paphitis (of Dragon's Den fame) bans access to such sites in his workplace.  

 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1210564/THEO-PAPHITIS-Why-ALL-bosses-I-did-ban-staff-Facebook.html 

 When I joined Facebook one of my friends greeted me with "Welcome to the best way to waste time on the internet" and he does have a point.

However, I think it is an opportunity missed if the subject of social networking is not discussed as part of a security awareness program.  After all, staff may access work data from those infected home machines and bring the problem back to workSurprised

 3rd August 2009 

If the image your staff have of a person who conforms to security policy is that they are a 'towel straightening geek'- Then they are not going to want to turn into one themselves.

Therefore they are more likely to resist guidelines for secure behaviour. Yell

Managing that perception is one key to developing a culture of security Laughing

 

 

 

 

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