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IT Case Studies in Security & Continuity

Exploiting the human weak point

 14 November 2011

Author and consultant Ian Mann explains how he got the better of a SaaS provider's security precautions by outsmarting its customer support agents

Securing mobile access 

 14 November 2011

Corporate finance advisory KBR used cloud-based service Simplexo to remove the risk of mobile workers 

Putting the London insurance market into the cloud

 14 November 2011

Uncertain how London's insurers would take to its e-brokerage platform Lime-St.com, TriSystems opted for cloud-based hosting

How GfK NOP manages privacy in the digital era

 28 July 2011

The market research group's "three lenses" for managing the privacy of its subjects

Share Centre meets PCI obligations with log management

 03 June 2011

PCI compliance and a growing awareness of information security drove online stockbroker Share Centre to supercharge its log management

A tiered approach

 13 October 2010

Business continuity at Macdonald Hotels and Resorts

Breaking the rules at Virgin Media

 18 June 2010

How Virgin Media broke through the constraints of its overlapping firewall products and empowered its IT workforce in the process

Should businesses put a price on privacy?

 19 March 2010

Experts react to the Information Commissioner's proposal that businesses place a financial value on their customers' privacy

Threat of litigation leads to Web 2.0 ban

 19 November 2009

Almost one company in five has had to produce content from Web 2.0 as a result of legal request, law firm finds

Security council

 21 October 2009

Bracknell Forest Borough Council deployed ‘trace, monitor and destroy’ software to prevent any embarrassing security breaches

Breach rebirth

 14 September 2009

A serious security breach forced maternity equipment retailer NCT Shop to outsource credit card handling – and to treat its suppliers with greater scrutiny

Safe house

 14 August 2009

Online gaming firm bwin turned to Software Security Assurance to protect its applications from hackers, and in so doing improved its engagement with the business

The on demand data fortress

 17 June 2009

KPMG Forensics deploys high security data centre facilities on an on-demand basis to handle large quantities of sensitive data

When the sky falls

 10 April 2008

Forced out of its offices by a collapsing building, Watson Wyatt saw its business continuity investments prove their worth

Strong authentication pays off at Advanced Payment Solutions

 19 February 2008

The pre-paid card retailer has deployed a sophisticated authentication model in order to protect its B2B clients and their customers

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