Here at the Acumin Blog we always try to tread carefully. We realise this means we’re not like a lot of other blogs, and it also means we won’t be your first port of call for breaking infosec news (though we trust you’re keeping a close eye on the news feed over at the main […]

There’s a different venue and a new look to this month’s RANT Forum, as the premier talking-shop for Britain’s cyber-security and information-assurance professionals follows the rest of the industry over to west London for the Infosecurity Europe event. In partnership with co-hosts for the night, Trend Micro, RANT founders Acumin are temporarily relocating the lively […]

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 […]

And so, another domino falls. This week it was eBay’s turn to announce it had been the victim of a massive data breach. As befits such a revelation from what is, at present, the 23rd-most-visited website in the world, the news has been accorded headline status across the globe. And, as was the case with […]

You lucky, lucky people. Not only is RANT gearing up for its second annual day-long conference in a couple of weeks (details here – and sign up soon, it’s nearly full), but this month’s regular RANT Forum offers a double helping of information-security plain-talking, as two experienced and respected professionals tackle a different hot-button topic. […]

Sometimes it feels like you’re on a hiding to nothing when you’re an information-security professional. You were hired to protect your business’s most critical digital assets – source code to proprietary software; confidential details of planned deals or mergers; customer billing information; and so on – and you’ve designed the system you feel is required. […]

As if being an information-security specialist wasn’t difficult enough with just the actual job of securing your employer’s systems to worry about, there’s another problem many in the field are facing. Let’s think of it as a kind of internal and external form of public relations, where the infosec professional is forced, sometimes, to over-state […]

Jerry Bruckheimer’s G-Force – harmless fun for kids of all ages, or a dire warning of what may happen when we network our kitchen appliances? Clever marketing is all about timing, so it’s no surprise that the Consumer Electronics Show takes place early in January. Everyone’s still coming back to their desks, bleary-eyed and slightly […]

It was “emotional, controversial, and highly entertaining,” declared RANT Events founder Simon Hember at the close of yesterday’s second annual RANT Conference. And while he would say good things about his own event, the genuine delight that infused his valedictory address was very clearly genuine. Translating the chat-over-a-pint atmosphere of the long-running RANT Forum format […]

Being an information-security professional is a bit like being a goalkeeper in a football team: you can play a blinder all day but if you make just one mistake and your team concedes a goal, that’s all that anyone will remember. If your job is to defend your network from a vast array of threats, […]