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Wednesday, April 20, 2011

Security is not just for the IT crowd

Anyone who has ever watched The IT Crowd and who happens to actually work in IT will appreciate that it is funny because there is more than a grain of truth in it. Not only is the IT department often located out of sight in the basement, but management is often inclined to take a hands-off approach where IT voodoo is concerned. This is, sadly, still particularly true when it comes to security where a bottom up rather than top down strategy is applied. If you can call it a strategy, that is.
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Co-founder of IT Security Thing Ltd, Davey Winder is a three time winner of the Information Security Journalist of the Year award (2006/2008/2010) and received the prestigious Enigma Award for his lifetime contribution to information security journalism in 2011.



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