Research In Motion (RIM) has announced the implementation of a secure data transfer application for its BlackBerry Smartphone using the same encryption protocol developed by Media Sourcery, which is the basis for Infosec Island's own IslandPKI service...

Culture is most commonly defined as the behaviors and beliefs characteristic of a group of people.  So an organization’s culture of behaviors and beliefs are what shape the decisions people make and results an organization achieves...

Organizations are more often asking to include a social engineering evaluation, but it still surprises me just how many of them have not previously had a formal SE evaluation process in place until we do our first audit with them. I get “oh, our accounting firm calls into our user base from ti...

Chris Powers, Worldwide Director, Enterprise Storage, HP StorageWorks Division spoke to Rahul Neel Mani about HP’s latest push – ‘Storage and Server Convergence’ – as well as other technologies that will excite enterprise users in 2010-11...

We must mitigate the ever-increasing abilities of today's cyber criminals to penetrate the current information security barriers, fire walls, etc. of industry and government organizations in order to gain access to the most sensitive and confidential private information stored in its databases...

Bluetooth-enabled devices abound, but the (mis-perception) that an attacker must be physically close decreases popular interest from a security testing perspective. In contrast, it's a box "on the wire" that enables an attacker in say, Palau, to to reach out and provide what I'd call a "negative home medical monitoring experience..."

Post has been and is quickly becoming an increasing challenge for many organisations of all sizes. Apart from the security issues of financial data getting lost before delivery, spiralling costs of running mailing centres, postal strikes and the increasing cost of postage, businesses and organisations want to embrace technology as an alternative to using post. However, until now the threat of online security is even greater than using the post. This short article describes how an organisation can safely implement an online delivery of financial statements to the customer’s inbox without compromising security and at the same time be able to maintain security on that financial document permanently...

As information security professionals, a common refrain we hear is how difficult, but essential it is to communicate the whys, hows, and whats of security to management, other business units, partners, vendors, customers, etc.,  Whether its meaningful security metrics or why compliance is just the beginning of the whole security process, better communication can yield better results...

Are you one of the over 350 Million people that use Facebook to keep in touch with friends and family? According to Hitwise, Facebook briefly surpassed Google as the most visited site in the world during the Christmas season. The founder of Facebook said that privacy is no longer a social norm...

In The Harvard Business Review January – February 2010 issue, Dan Ariely writes of the long term effects of negative emotional situations.  The column refers to an experiment where one group was exposed to video clips designed to annoy them.  Another group was shown clips designed to make them happy...