Is It Time to Review Your Malicious Software Reporting Policy?
Be honest – do you currently have a malicious software reporting policy? Just relying on the existence of anti-virus software and firewalls may be too optimistic nowadays. The potential damage to information assets and productivity, let alone identity or bank account theft, suggests that a malware reporting policy should be in place in any organisation. […]
Outsourcing: Good Contracts are Only the Starting Point
Stick to core competence and competitive advantage, and outsource the rest: such has been the mantra of businesses for decades now. The logic is simple. By using external partners specialised in the non-core activities, for example, accounting, logistics and pay, an enterprise can benefit from that partner’s economies of scale and superior expertise. Profits go […]
Data Sanitisation and Its Impact on Business Continuity
In data management, the way you delete information can be as important as the way you keep it. Confidential information that finds its way into the wrong hands can lead to loss of advantage over competitors, public relations crises or other threats to business continuity. However, that doesn’t mean the wholesale destruction of data within […]
A Perpetual Motion Machine for Sales and Business Continuity
Perpetual motion, like the alchemist’s stone, makes a great legend. The idea of something that keeps going indefinitely with no external source of energy is highly seductive, but also highly impractical. Friction or resistance of some kind will always intervene to eventually bring the system to a halt. However, almost-perpetual motion that just needs a […]
What the NSA Revelations Mean for Business Continuity
Although the dust hasn’t yet settled on the Edward Snowden revelations about the activities of the US National Security Agency, the consequences already extend beyond the purely technical. While the immediate reaction was to think of better ways in which to encrypt data, it also dawned on foreign organisations that they might want to review […]
Business Continuity and IT Security: Give Up or Give In?
There are different ways of looking at IT security involving end-user equipment such as PCs and mobile computing devices. One is to batten down the hatches at a corporate level, repel all viral boarders and let end-users fend for themselves. Another is to extend security to all end-user devices and take responsibility for maintaining data […]