Rik Ferguson

We focus too much on the "known-bad"

Time was when one of the key things that a security technology had to avoid, was initiating an avalanche of event notifications. Tuning... read more

Our security expert considers the latest wave of Java attacks

Is Java safe for enterprises or for individual users? A question that has been the topic of the month since the most recent widely publicised... read more

So which mobile platform offers the best security?

There appears to be room for a "big three" at the top of the smartphone tree at the moment.The operating systems that appear to have solidified... read more

As ever, it is the information that is more important than the device in the consumerisation debate

More companies are seeing the benefits of allowing their employees to bring personally owned devices into the workplace and onto the corporate... read more

Should software vendors be liable for vulnerabilities in the products they sell?

Should software vendors be liable for vulnerabilities in the products they sell?  Are they already liable to some degree, or would new... read more

CISOs should be an independent force, an ally and not a CIO's direct report

While the importance of the Chief Information Security Officer has been in constant growth over the past six years, organisations that employ a... read more

Trust is everything for a security provider says Rik Ferguson

The story that recently caused the biggest stir in IT security and government circles was the compromise at Dutch certificate authority DigiNotar... read more

Consumerisation has already taken place

Consumerisation is a word I am hearing a lot these days and yet as I type this I realise that it is still a word in its infancy, even my word... read more

Is the user the right thing to authenticate?

In the fight against online crime, banks and other financial institutions have steadily been rolling out new technologies to counter the threat... read more

Datacentres will become the new criminal frontier

The increase in workforce mobility, the adoption of virtualisation and cloud computing and the growing acceptance of "Bring Your Own Device" in... read more

Cloud is good, but beware

A report released this month by the European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA) has investigated the utility and applicability of... read more

The reality is that criminals focus far more acutely on social engineering

Zero-day attacks generate a lot of coverage and consequently occupy the security thinking of many Information Security professionals when planning... read more