November/December 2007 issue

Take it on board
Members of Infosecurity’s editorial board discuss trends for 2008, including valuing risk, mobile devices, targeted attacks and privacy legislation

Continuity in a disaster
Business continuity planning and infosecurity are often treated as separate issues. Tackling them in tandem would help, finds Stephen Pritchard

Eating your own dogfood
Organisations which sell and support IT security have specific problems of their own, but they do have to use their own products, reports Steve Gold

When biometrics are far from borderline
Biometrics are popular with governments but are having less success in the commercial world, despite some use in managing employees. Sarah Hilley asks why the technology has not fulfilled its potential

How to dodge the red card
Fingerprints looked like the best biometric to tackle hooliganism at Dutch football grounds, but trials for TNO showed they can be subverted, find researchers Jurgen den Hartog and Ruud van Munster

Chip and spin
Radio frequency identification chips are appearing in passports and other identification documents, holding data including biometrics. But in many cases they are inadequately secured, says consultant Adam Laurie

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