YOUR PROVIDER IS HACKED, YOU'RE ASSURED OF NO FINANCIAL LOSS. BUT ARE YOU SAFE?...

[UPDATED 20th FEBRUARY 2014] In the aftermath of the Santander and Barclays KVM hacks, @GrahamCluley kindly invited me to post my comments on his blog.
A few weeks on, I have some updates which you may find interesting…

I AM WHO I AM... OR AM I?

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I have spent the last 18 months pondering on the whole sphere of identity and authentication and a number of things have happened:
The analysts continue to tell us that lax password management and policies continue to put individuals and organisations at risk (according to the Trustwave Global Security Report 2013, Welcome1 is the most commonly used password by count - followed closely by STORE123 and Password1 - whereas Password1 is still most widely used when looking at % of unique active directory samples, followed closely by password1 and Welcome1)

FROM FRAUD TO INFOSEC and vice versa... Part 2

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In my previous post, I summarised the UK National Fraud Authority latest Annual Fraud Indicator and how it relates to information security. In this post, I delve further on this connection by further refining the key fraud enablers used to defraud victims of all types. These cut across the fraud landscape and often overlap which poses further challenges for quantifying their impact, but the classification is nonetheless helpful and recognisable.

FROM FRAUD TO INFOSEC and vice versa... Part 1

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In my last post, I attempted to give some real business metrics to help secure information security investment. One of those metrics set related to our ability to link infosec to fraud and in this post I’d like to examine the connection a bit further. Lucky for me, the UK National Fraud Authority have just released their 2012 Annual Fraud Indicator (readers beware, it’s 58 pages...), so with my infosec lens, I’ll take you through the report and hopefully give you some more KPIs to think about...