Joel Tobias, managing director at CY4OR, commented: “Businesses have been extremely aware of the budget deficit and the announcements made in the emergency Budget come as little surprise. We can only get out what we put into the economy so big decisions had to be made to compensate for previous overspending and in order to [...]

The Government has announced that Apple iPhone are not to be used for sensitive official communications until further notice.  The CESG, the UK Government’s National Technical Authority for Information Assurance, has declared the embargo advising that the Blackberry should be used instead.
A report by the Telegraph claimed that information security experts have not approved their [...]

Next month a new security layer will be added to web’s address system to help protect users from cyber attacks such as phishing and spam.  The Domain Name System Security Extensions (DNSSEC) will prevent hackers from intercepting DNS data and redirecting users to fake websites.
Leslie Daigle, Chief Internet Technology Officer at the Internet Society responsible [...]

Deloitte’s 2010 Financial Services Global Security Study has found that almost three-quarters of UK financial services have increased their security budgets in the past year.  The majority of this budget has been spent on identity and access management, and data loss prevention strategies.
“Financial institutions are facing a battle on two fronts in their efforts to [...]