James Tanner

Virtualised resources and appliances are now a major revenue stream for a number of vendors, virtual resources are widely deployed in a number of sectors, and this is a trend that is expected to continue. Virtualised resources are being deliberately targeted at those organisations that wish to make cost savings, and are mooted by many as being a secure, flexible and high availability technology.

In this the fourth in a series of technical articles that summarises much of the platform focused industry research that has taken place as regards issues associated with the security of virtualisation platforms, we outline the final category of virtualised platform specific vulnerabilities, namely that of virtual machine environment destruction.

Identity theft and identity fraud are terms used to refer to all types of crime in which someone wrongfully obtains and uses another person's personal data in some way that involves fraud or deception, typically for economic gain. Unlike your fingerprints, which are unique to you and cannot be given to someone else for their use, your personal data, bank account or credit card number and other valuable identifying data ­ can be used by bad guys for profit at your expense.

This is the fifth in a series of twelve articles for the non-technical managers at small to medium sized companies who operate smaller networks and may lack a sophisticated in-house information technology department.

This is the fourth in a series of twelve articles for the non-technical managers at small to medium sized companies who operate smaller networks and may lack a sophisticated in-house information technology department.

In this the third technical article from Orthus that summarises much of the platform focused industry research that has taken place as regards issues associated with the security of virtualisation platforms, we outline the second of three categories of virtualised platform specific vulnerabilities, namely that of virtual machine environment protection bypasses.

This is the third in a series of twelve articles written by Orthus providing sensible cost effective steps to securing the small business, written for the non-technical managers at small to medium sized companies who operate smaller networks and may lack a sophisticated in-house information technology department.

A review of the hidden business impacts associated with data breaches, and the likely responses of key participants including legislators and regulators.

In the final part of the series we look at the remaining risks that spreadsheets post to compliance programmes and what you can do to reduce them.

Part 1 of a 2 Part Series discusses one of the biggest threats to compliance isn’t your employees or hackers, but a trusted tool: the spreadsheet. It is unstructured, untracked, and unsecured. Learn to recognize top spreadsheet risks and what you can do to reduce them.