We live in a society that is becoming increasingly digital. We are also becoming ever more dependent on all things digital. Yet we give too little thought to what happens if that digital breaks down. One of the peculiar characteristics of a digital world is that users consider it perfectly normal and self-evident for everything to just work. Read more
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Wednesday October 13th, 2010The 129 digit codeword
by Erik Dejonghe
In 1977 Rivest, Shamir and Adleman, three encryption specialists, made a bold statement. 11,438,162,575,788,886,766,923,577, 997,614,661,201,021,829,672,124,236,256,256,184,293,570,693,524, 57,338,978,305,971,23,563,95,705,058,989,075,147,599,290,026, 879,543,541, they said, is not a prime number but the product of two very large primes. Finding those two prime numbers would take the existing computer networks at least 40,000,000,000,000,000 years.
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Wednesday September 22nd, 2010From security to immunity
by Peter Hinssen
Security in the IT world is only in its infancy. We know how important it is but still it often remains an afterthought. We’re often so focused on the features that we neglect the security aspect or only think of it at the end of a project.
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Monday August 9th, 2010Outsource that business…
by Georges Ataya
… so that we can be rid of it. That’s what many managers tend to say when they are faced with yet another IT-problem. Outsourcing often seems a ready-made solution, certainly if you aren’t managing to keep up with the governance of your information technology. Read more
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Monday August 2nd, 2010The hidden face of strategic alignment
by Georges Ataya
The coordination or alignment between the business strategy and IT is generally high on the agenda for most CIOs. It is usually even presented as their ultimate aim. But alignment can also be a source of chaos that is difficult to resolve. Read more
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Monday July 19th, 2010Don’t wait until the storm hits
by Georges Ataya
Fraud is something that IT and security managers for companies always have to take into account. This involves the core tasks of prevention, discouragement and detection.
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Friday June 4th, 2010Mobile security
by Georges Ataya
As the size of the world’s mobile workforce continues to increase rapidly, so too does the threat such remote workers present to their organizations and IT departments, due largely to a lack of related security training and awareness. It is easier to deploy mobile devices than to manage and control them. Controlling the authorized use of mobile devices is like hitting a moving target. User expectations are growing rapidly, and enterprises are incorporating, as standard, wireless and mobile technologies in their IT delivery infrastructure. Read more
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