Source: http://www.bcs.org/content/conWebDoc/50515 Data security experts who could help firms preserve their information held on computers and the web are to be given special tuition from two universities. Royal Holloway, University of London and Oxford University have announced they are rolling out courses that deal in how to protect databases in the event of a cyber [...]
Continue readingCurrent News
Current News
The Cost to Consumers of a Data Breach
By: Ann Carrns Source: www.cnbc.com A new analysis of a huge data breach last year in Utah estimates that more than 120,000 cases of fraud will occur as a result of information stolen. Javelin Strategy & Research’s analysis also estimates that each incident will result in more than $3,300 in losses, on average, and each [...]
Continue readingHuw Price & Grid-Tools to feature at QUEST
Oxford, UK – Huw Price, Managing Director of Grid-Tools Limited has been invited to speak at QUEST, the Quality Engineered Software & Testing Conference and EXPO due to take place in Chicago next month (15th – 19th April). The focus of QUEST is to explore the latest thinking and techniques that can help IT professionals [...]
Continue readingMidmarket Companies Have Big Data-Breach Exposure
Source: http://www.internetevolution.com Author: Mitch Wagner More than half of US small and midmarket businesses surveyed have experienced at least one data breach, but only a third notified individuals that that their personal information had been exposed, explains a study by Ponemon Institute. “Smaller companies are targeted by data thieves, but they often don’t know how to respond [...]
Continue readingCyber security – articulating the details
Source: http://www.out-law.com/ Author: John Salmon Businesses and governments are continuing to wrestle with the question of what can and cannot be considered ‘adequate’ IT security in compliance with regulations including data protection laws. The European Commission has unveiled its proposal for a network and information security directive and its ‘cyber strategy‘, while the Prime Minister has signed a [...]
Continue readingGoogle app store policy raises privacy concern
Published on 2013-02-15 15:33:29 Source: www.nbcnews.com Author: Alexei Oreskovic and Michael Sin , Reuters Google’s privacy practices are drawing heat after an Australian software developer said the company was providing him with personal information, including email addresses, of everyone who purchased his mobile app. The information that Google shared, which included customers’ full names, email and [...]
Continue readingGartner positions Grid-Tools in the “Visionaries” Quadrant for Data Masking Technology
Published on 2013-01-28 09:29:00 Oxford, UK – Grid-Tools Limited, the leading vendor of test data management, test data generation and data masking software and solutions has been positioned by Gartner, Inc. in the ‘Visionaries’ Quadrant of the ‘Magic Quadrant for Data Masking Technology’, a report authored by Joseph Feiman and Carsten Casper in December 2012. “Innovation [...]
Continue readingWhat does quality look like?
Published on 2013-01-24 09:16:00 By Ray Scott Published in ComputerWorldUK As John Ruskin, the great Victorian social thinker, once famously argued, ‘Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of intelligent effort.’ This is the principle that underpins the current buzz around ‘building quality into the enterprise’. But what does quality look like? It [...]
Continue reading