Book Review: Global Terrorism and New Media: The Post-Al Qaeda Generation
By Ben Rothke, Senior Security Consultant, BT Global Services Global Terrorism and New Media: The Post-Al Qaeda Generation. By Philip Seib and Dana Janbek; published by Taylor & Francis...
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By Toby Weir-Jones, Vice President of Product Development, BT Counterpane The U.S. “war on terror” has brought a lot of surveillance technologies into the foreground and taught people about how little...
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Bruce Schneier says trust no one
Leading security expert (and BT’s Chief Security Technology Officer) Bruce Schneier is used to challenging the status quo in his quest to identify optimally-effective IT security. He’s unafraid to turn...
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Is attack the best form of defence?
By Carl Blackett, Norfolk County Council’s ICT Security Architect We often hear the phrase ‘attack is the best form of defence’ in relation to anything — from competitive sports to internet-based...
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The Internet as a collective sub-conscious
By Dr Robert Ghanea-Hercock, Chief Researcher, BT Security Research Practice We are the Borg. We lost the war before it began. It can rightly be claimed that we are already homo-technus, the next stage...
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Success in Cyberspace – more work to be done?
By Sir Mike Rake, Chairman BT Group Plc. Progress has been made since the launch of the National Cyber Security Strategy (NCSS) a year ago, but there’s still work to be done. I was delighted to be...
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Making peace with cyber war
By Lambert Hofstra, Senior Principal Consultant At the recent cyber security session in The Hague for public sector officials we wrote about earlier, BT’s security guru Bruce Schneier appealed for a...
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Nationalism: the new spying game
Everyone’s at it. Thanks partly to the Internet — which was supposed to make the borders dissolve and unite the global family — nationalism has moved into the digital age, and no one trusts anyone...
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Differences of opinion about securing the global network
Not a day goes by without the media reporting high profile attacks, emphasized by last week’s revelations that NSA has been gathering users’ online data and telephone records for the past 6 years....
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Cloud: Protecting your web of vulnerability
As cloud computing continues to dominate the digital landscape, we must become ever more vigilant to the threats posed by those with hostile intent. The keys to protection are impeccable vigilance,...
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Mitigating the political risk/impact on IT security for the GCC region
By Haifa Jlassi, Senior Security Consultant, BT Middle East and North Africa. The Middle East has been a conflict region for decades and its governments have invested a lot in protecting their...
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