Shaun Peapell, CY4OR’s Information Security Consultant, adds to his comment at Information Security about the biggest threat to businesses. Information would be far better off without the human user! Sad but true. The highest proportion of data loss and data bleeds is as a result of someone not doing as they are supposed too. Organisations [...]
Keith Cottenden, CY4OR’s Forensic Services Director, shares his thoughts on cyber crime, the risks that organisation’s face and how to protect business interests…. There is widespread confusion over the scale and nature of cyber-criminality which is undermining efforts to tackle a menace that may be costing the economy billions of pounds a year. Businesses have [...]
Forensic Focus recently interviewed our Forensic Services Director, Keith Cottenden. Please find the interview below which can also be viewed at http://forensicfocus.com/c/aid=42/interviews/2012/keith-cottenden-forensic-services-dir/ 1. Can you tell us something about your background and how you became involved in digital forensics? I spent 22 years in the Royal Air Force Police specialising as a Counter Intelligence and Information [...]
CY4OR recently presented at two social media seminars, one hosted by Taylors Solicitors and the HR Exchange and the other by Berg Solicitors (see my previous blog). Aimed at HR and employment personnel, the events were well attended and back up the common view that companies don’t know what to do about social media in [...]
A summary of LawTech written by Nick Pollard, CY4OR’s Head of eDisclosure & Litigation Support…. At heart I am a techie. Ever since leaving school, I have been fascinated by the advancement of technology - from my first computer, a Commodore Vic20 with a whacking great 16KB ram card, through to Pac-Man and Space Invaders. Since [...]
Keith Cottenden, CY4OR’s Forensic Services Director, is interviewed as part of a piece for ‘Voice of Russia’ on ‘Abortion Seekers: A Hack Too Far?’ James Reinl hosts a debate for VOR London on web-based activists and whistleblowers, asking whether they are geeky criminals or libertarians who are exposing the vices of evil corporations. He was [...]
I came across the following article in the Sainbury’s magazine, which although isn’t my usual source of content for the blog, in this case it transcends both home and work life. Like it or not, the use of social media is rife amoung teens – and even younger children. So what are the dangers and [...]
I’m feeling a little fuzzy headed this morning after an excellent night spent with Manchesters finest from the legal community at the Manchester Law Society Legal Awards. On arriving at the awards I grabbed a glass of champers and scanned the room for familiar faces, something made slightly more difficult when all the men are [...]
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