Free with the Q2 issue of Infosecurity magazine, the Wick Hill Guardian is your ticket to better understanding of the issues faced by IT security professionals in 2013. The Wick Hill Guardian aims to advise, not advertise, and examine the key concerns in IT security, and what can be done to defend business-critical systems against the constantly evolving new generation of security threats. There’s also an opportunity for two lucky Guardian readers to win an iPad Mini, through its free-to-enter prize draw.
The inaugural issue of the Wick Hill Guardian includes a guest column from WatchGuard Technologies’ director of security strategy, Corey Nachreiner, who investigates the growing – and disturbing – trend for cyber-attackers to target small businesses, dispelling the myth that the traditional blue-chip organizations are the prime targets.
Check Point’s Terry Greer-King takes a light-hearted look at how the Star Wars films showed how a series of basic infosecurity mistakes can cost even a massive, powerful organization like the Empire dearly. The Empire’s weak security policies are echoed by many real-life organizations, and understanding what went wrong, and what steps to take to prevent it, could prevent catastrophic damage to an organization’s business goals.
Nick Banks, head of EMEA and APCA at Imation Mobile Security, questions the widely held belief that data breaches are most commonly the result of human error. The article looks at ways the responsibility can be shifted from personnel to technology, to protect from the human propensity toward forgetfulness and carelessness, and what solutions can be put in place to prevent one momentary lapse from causing an organization a major headache.
As threats continue to increase and diversify, it’s easy for CIOs/CISOs to lose track of where to begin when provisioning for IT security. Barracuda’s Wieland Alge, general manager for Europe, looks at the “three C’s” – Crime, Consolidation and Cloud – in his article, which aims to simplify the threat landscape into three key focus areas.
Finally, Wick Hill chairman Ian Kilpatrick investigates the consequence of the escalating trend of BYOD by looking at how smartphones can damage an organization’s security, and what organizations should be aware of when deploying mobile devices, or allowing users to connect theirs to the corporate network.
These special guest columns are supplemented by a wealth of information around the IT security industry’s biggest talking points, including mobile devices and BYOD, Windows 8, the future of enterprise wireless, and the Cloud.
The Wick Hill Guardian is free with the Q2 issue of Infosecurity magazine, available in early April. Copies of the Wick Hill Guardian will also be available at the Infosecurity Europe 2013 show, but if you can’t wait until then, you can request your copy now, in print or digital format.