I finally got around to upgrading my laptop as the previous incumbent was starting to be a pain (quite literally) when travelling. I only need to use email and some basic office software so the computing power of a bank trading system was hardly...

Recently one of my PC's have been acting like a two year old toddler. Why? Because I upgraded to the latest version of one the best known PC security products. After upgrading my PC I was instantly bombarded with a number of animated icons telling...

This is the time of year when European based security analysts are at their most frenzied as next week marks the 3 days of the InfoSecurity Show, or InfoSec for short. Of course I will be attending, and have had my three days filled with vendor...

Day 1 of InfoSec, the Information Security Show held in London’s Olympia venue, was going to be an interesting experience from the start. The immediate impression was that the show was bigger this year than last. Either more vendors have...

Maybe InfoSec should be rechristened the database security show? There appear to be more and more vendors now focussed on securing the good old database by offering tools that layer onto an existing RDBMS, monitoring who is doing what and when and...

So today was the last day of InfoSec, and the last round of briefings. Deploying software patches, managing viruses, controlling data leaks and all the other associated security jobs that we need to do place a heavy burden on administrators and...