Is there a bigger threat than awareness and compliance which assume attacks are random?
In my recent blog on the need for genuine board level education, not just awareness, I promised a guest blog from Lincoln...
A question for Get Safe Online Week: Where is the world cybercrime capital?
Today is the start of Get Safe On-line Week and I was intrigued to read that the top Cyber Story in the Technical press is that
IPR Wars: who really are the heroes and villains, winners and losers?
I have regularly blogged on the theme of IPR wars over the past
Will GCHQ give more serious guidance than the FCC?
This morning's announcment of a GCHQ initiative to help British business improve its cybersecurity was damned with faint praise in a
Why did the French (Minitel) not conquer the on-line world ?
My son has just e-mailed me a link to the BBC article on the final death of the Minitel . He asked if it really was that good. It was. It...
Choosing a Mayor for the Information Age : congratulations to Salford Labour party
Ian Stewart is probably the only mayoral candidate who understands what the Information Society is about - and I include those for London. I was intrigued by the
Will 2012 see the end of the Cold War over Intellectual Property Rights?
From the European demonstrations against ACTA and copyright to arguments on Open Software and patent the quiet Cold War over digital intellectual property rights (whether software or content) is hotting up. In the UK it...
A Cartel Masquerading as Anarchy: who governs the Internet?
The Internet is the most concentrated and regulated communications system the world has ever known. Players like Google or Microsoft take a far larger revenue share of the markets within which they operate than Standard Oil, Ma Bell or...
Trusted, sustainable partnership or cynical manipulation?
"Who do you trust? The Government, Marmite, Michael Fish .. Tesco .. ? So begins Matthew Gwyther, in a Management Today editorial on corporate trust. Debate over on-line trust is even more surreal.