While two data points are just a coincidence, three could well be a trend: so I’ll be watching the news in coming days for a third household-name company playing fast and loosewith its customers’ personal information. In the past few days, both Google and Starbucks have been found to be pursuing policies regarding data breaches […]

When it comes to being pointed and provocative, we like to think the RANT Forum is second to none. Where else in the often stuffy world of information security are you invited to debate the subject’s often arcane discussion points by shouting in a crowded room while nursing a pint? It’s the Forum’s lack of […]

It seems that maybe MDM (Mobile Device Management) isn’t the most effective solution to an issue as broad and undefined as BYOD (Bring Your Own Device), although it certainly is a simpler one. At a recent CISO panel, Andrew Yeomans, a board member of the Jericho Forum and regular attendee of the RANT event for […]

In a very recent article on PC World’s website, Eric Geier wrote that 2012 will see a rise in information security threats, aided, in part, by the ubiquity of mobile devices – smartphones, tablets and laptops for example – as well as the growing and sustainable popularity of social networks. Cybercrime is going to become […]

The smartphone revolution was always inevitable if we considered Moore’s law as indisputable fact. To abridge a very fascinating and somewhat complicated branch of philosophy coupled with technological discourse, Moore’s law relates to the idea put forward in 1965 by Gordon Moore, Intel co-founder, that the number of transistors on a chip would double every […]

At the RANT Forum (Acumin’s monthly information security networking event), attendees often complain that they are playing catch up to cybercriminals. It is the bad guys that define the market, they are at the cutting edge as they try and find vulnerabilities, attack vectors, and exploits that will allow them to break in to a […]