I'm secure and so is my network... by Michael Owen

I'm secure and so is my network... By Michael Owen In the wake of the TalkTalk hack we have to ask some serious questions about security, both as individuals and as businesses. As individuals we place a huge amount of trust in companies who hold sensitive information about us and we don't really know what they have, where they keep it and how secure it is. Clearly these companies are not actually IT security specialists themselves or even IT service providers. They are enterprises with an IT function that has tools and policies to protect them and ultimately us - their customers. So, whose job it is to protect us from cybercrime? It’s a crime; so it must be the police, right? Well yes, but actually that’s not much help. The police (National Crime Agency) have made massive strides in cybercrime investigation, but not in prevention. They arrested the 'kids'....