6 tips to avoid security policy failure
Security breaches expose millions of consumers to identity theft every year, making this a particularly rampant form of IT-related failure. Here's how to create and enforce usable policies.
Security breaches expose millions of consumers to identity theft every year, making this a particularly rampant form of IT-related failure. Here's how to create and enforce usable policies.
Failed IT projects happen all the time, often to the amazement of participants who think they're somehow immune to IT problems. In my experience, most failures are caused by short-sightedness, complexity on both business and technical sides, and poor management. Anyhow, there are certain steps a project leader can take to reduce the likelihood of failure.Here's a list of 8 tips to prevent your IT project from going down the tubes.
This is bizarre, and suggests some sort of additional, underlying problem that has not been disclosed.According to finextra:Online broker TD Ameritrade says an internal investigation into stock-related spam uncovered 'unauthorised code' in its computer systems that allowed illegal access to an internal database.
Security expert David Litchfield analyzed data breaches during 2007 and came up with interesting results:Word documents and spreadsheets mistakenly left on a web server or indexed by a search engine account for 20.6% of the 276 breaches, both physical and digital, recorded up to the 23rd of October.
Two weeks ago, I raised serious questions about IT governance in the UK at HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC). At that time, the agency lost a CD containing private information belonging to 15,000 people in the UK.
Following its $30 billion virtual fence debacle, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has disclosed another failed IT-related project, this one costing $42 million. DHS has suspended, and will likely cancel, a massive data-mining initiative on grounds that it violated privacy standards.
Dropbox updated its terms of service to reflect stated policies on user privacy and intellectual property control.
Failure creates excellent opportunities to refine experience and knowledge into great success.
High rates of IT project failure persist because most organizations don't understand the real reasons why their projects fail. Don't ignore the early warning signs of failure; they're a loud siren if you listen carefully.
Technology failures, design flaws, and software bugs can be found in the most unexpected places. Now, researchers have developed a method for remotely compromising heart pacemakers surgically implanted in a patient's chest.