Identity Management — News

The Case for Metadata Retention

The government's plan to force telecommunications providers to retain a set of metadata for every person has privacy advocates up in arms and police and security agencies telling us that this legislation is essential for fight crime in the 21st century.

Anthony Caruana | 24 Feb | Read more

Security is “a massively complex topic” - CA World

Security is “a massively complex topic,” according to Mike Gregoire, CEO of CA Technologies, who cited considerations including transparency (telling people how you will use the data you collect), protection (sadly, the bad guys seem to be smarter than the good guys, so organisations need to work together and share information about compromises) and identity (so data can be protected without frustrating bona fide users).

Stephen Withers | 17 Nov | Read more

Identity is the Key to Security

Security is big business these days. With our old approach of blocking everyone at the border failing - mainly because no-one knows where the border is anymore - a risk-based approach is driving the way businesses think about their information and systems security.

Anthony Caruana | 22 Oct | Read more

Wearable Tech - Can your life be hacked?

Paraphrasing the song made famous in the 1960s by The Troggs and wonderfully updated by Bill Nighy in "Love Actually" Big Data is really all around us. We are making more and more data about ourselves available to a broader audience. But what if that data is stolen? Is it useful to anyone?

Anthony Caruana | 07 Mar | Read more