Lessons learnt from a severe security incident

After a week of ISO 27001 auditing in the UK and a busy week aftewards, I finally managed to get some time to read my favourite blogs. I was doing so, when I read an interesting post in the Internet Storm Center that analyses some lessons learnt from a severe incident affecting The Planet, a well known hosting provider.

Being a BSi instructor for the BS 25999 courses on Business Continuity, I find these kind of real-life examples very instructive for being used at class, although I try to to get students to talk about their own experiences as much as possible.

So have a look at The Planet outage – what can we all learn from it? and let me know your thoughts.

In the following weeks I’ll be creating a new section of my blog where I will put together a list of Business Continuity resources (among others) I can share with my students at class. So stay tuned!

When chocolate becomes a security threat

Chocolate!Whilst some researchers point out that chocolate may provide health benefits that include decreasing the risk factors for certain heart related diseases, further research indicates that it can also become a security threat, specially when women are around!

I know it sounds funny, but so claims latest survey conducted by Infosecurity Europe over 576 office workers in London. According to that research, women are four times more likely than men to give out their passwords in exchange for a chocolate bar (45% of women compared to 10% of men).

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