Last month’s RANT Forum was one of the best attended so far, and saw Sarb Sembhi, director of IncomingThought, present on EU Data Protection Regulation. This month’s event will be held at The Counting House, London on Wednesday August 28th 2013 and is set to be just as interesting, with a new speaker and an […]

During each RANT forum and conference information security professionals gather together to talk about some of the most pressing issues in the industry. One of the topics that often gets brought up is recruitment and how organisations in both the public and private sector go about bringing in the most talented individuals. During the latest […]

Next week’s RANT Forum will certainly feature one of the hottest topics in the IT security industry right now, as Sarb Sembhi, director of IncomingThought and chair of the ISACA GRA-SC3, will be presenting a talk on the EU Data Protection Regulation as well as other areas such as the state of the privacy policy […]

  The role of the cyber security professional may be among the most demanding in the modern business world. The type of personality who will function best in the job seems to be one that is confident and forthright, yet able to quickly admit to their own limitations. “A good CISO will say, ‘I don’t […]

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, […]

The dangers of phishing and social-engineering attacks are well known and understood by businesses, NGOs and public bodies, so why are they still effective? And what if there was a way to use the same psychological pivots attackers use, and improve cyber security? Well, those attending this month’s RANT Forum in London are about to find out just […]

Let’s start by hearing a sneak preview of the talk you’ll be giving at RANT? It will be on the subject of cyber war. The way some people talk about it annoys me, so that makes me passionate. It annoys me when people use phrases like “Digital Pearl Harbour” and compare the proliferation of cyber […]

June’s RANT conference will see a selection of top IT Security industry professionals take to the stage. The RANT Conference in St Paul’s London is a little under a month away now and anticipation amongst information security professionals is growing by the day. On June 11th 2013 a full day of enlightening, informative and engaging […]

Without giving too much away, what will you be talking about at the RANT Conference on June 11th? I’m going to be talking about the mega trends that will affect the world and what will be required of the security industry in order to respond to them. These mega trends are part of the Big […]

Before he found international fame with his, to all intents, groundbreaking action-novel The Da Vinci Code, American author Dan Brown released a number of novels that later went on to become best-sellers. The first novel he ever released was entitled Digital Fortress, a thriller about a cryptographer who is called in by the National Security […]