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New ISO TR on Guidance on the audit of the governance of IT

Leave a Comment / Information security strategy / By antonyma

In conjunction with the guidance contained in ISO/IEC 38500, ISO/IEC TR38502 ISO/IEC19011:2011: Guidelines for auditing management systems, there is a new technical report proposed on providing guidance on audits to assess whether an organization’s governance of IT is aligned with the principles for governance of IT in ISO/IEC 38500. BSI is seeking public comments on this …

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No Single Prediction Is Perfect, So I Look At Four

Leave a Comment / Cloud, ISO 27001, Privacy, Technology / By antonyma

As 2015 approaches, it is time for new year resolutions and wishes. For security industry, we are busy preparing for another eventful year!! Design A Hack Proof Password Storage When preparing for our budget and project portfolios, it maybe useful to look at predictions from leading security vendors. Cyber security is an intelligence game. Can …

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Thousands of Sites Suffer Collateral Damage as China Blocks Cloud Provider EdgeCast

Leave a Comment / Cybersecurity / By antonyma

Sharing of infrastructure means a lot of things, this time China GFW case taught us about sharing reputations. Verizon EdgeCast Blog “CDNs and networks are being filtered or blocked by the Great Firewall of China.” http://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/sites-damage-china-blocks-edgecast/

There are secrets in our life and we trust the computer by using them as our password.

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Our love and hate with password will never end.

IBM to build Chinese cloud presence with help from Tencent

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When cloud computing is now a mainstream product, does Tencent need IBM to build cloud ? My answer is NO since I saw the presentation on Openstack Summit in HK last year.

The trend of mix and match

Leave a Comment / Cloud, Singapore / By antonyma

In one article, we see NetApp, Redhat and AWS. Cloud computing is now enabling mix & match of technologies. NTU subscribed to Amazon Web Services (AWS) to cope with unexpected demands

Now even Germany’s postal service has an encrypted messaging app

Leave a Comment / Cybersecurity / By antonyma

Just installed this secure mobile message app. A few things to note: -in Singapore AppStore – need access to your phone address book to find others installed this app. I need to invite people to use this app!

Data Enabled Decision Making Is Not To Play God

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When attending a data analytics training today, I begin to recognise how our life is affected by a few. Or in the other word, we are herded by marketers and sales towards the life styles of high value influencers. The example used in class is about how to design the best sight seeing spots to …

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Russian hackers reportedly amassed 1.2 billion username-password combinations

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Key learnings from JP and TW botnet experiences

Leave a Comment / Japan, Taiwan / By antonyma

Cyber Security Intelligence from botnet observations