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Amrit Williams
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Amrit Williams is chief technology officer of Big Data company Quantivo. His previous job CTO at security comany BigFish and has been research director in the Information Security and Risk Research Practice at Gartner, where he covered audit and compliance, vulnerability and threat management, network security and secure application development.
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Securing the mobile workforce
The rising tide of mobile computing, driven by the introduction of consumer devices such as the iPhone and iPad, is crashing against the shores of many an IT shop. Most IT organisations have lived on a diet of corporate...
April 19, 2010 5:49 PM Read Full Post
Respect, prudence, and combating identity theft
Whenever I hear the phrase “identity theft,” I can only imagine what the late, great Rodney Dangerfield would have made of it: “Some guy in Moldova stole my identity. The FBI said, ‘…and you want it back?’ No respect!”...
March 25, 2010 11:20 AM Read Full Post
The broken windows economics of IT security
To economists, the term “Broken Windows” refers to the question that if a shopkeeper pays a glazier to repair a broken window at his store, does this deliver an economic benefit to society? Many people would say yes, because...
February 11, 2010 11:50 AM Read Full Post
Cyber warfare: Should we be on the cyber offensive?
There is much discussion of the changing dynamics and technologies of warfare but references particularly to cyber warfare have increased recently. Many people in the information security industry believe that we have entered an era of ‘cyber warfare’ and...
February 5, 2010 10:28 AM Read Full Post
Top 10 reasons your security programme sucks and why you can’t do anything about it
In the security industry we like to fool ourselves into thinking that we can materially impact an organisations security posture. We believe that new tools, a new framework, a new regulation, a new school of thought will lift the...
January 12, 2010 11:31 AM Read Full Post
Of pirate movies and movie pirates
I love movies! I love how an idea flashes like lightning from a twinkle in the eye, to paper, greenlighting, storyboard, production and ultimately to a hyper-teraplex a short drive from my house. Well it’s a little more involved...
December 21, 2009 1:54 PM Read Full Post
Note to self: 2009 holiday gift list
Black Friday and Cyber Monday have come and gone. Now it’s time for Amrit Wednesday, or Thursday, or Friday—oh, whatever—to pay our industry back for all the dubious cheer it spread in 2009. Believe me, when it comes to...
December 7, 2009 10:48 AM Read Full Post
Conficker: Isn’t this thing dead yet?
I didn’t exactly run out to Toys “R” Us to buy a present when I heard that the Conficker worm was celebrating its first birthday. What we really should have done was smother the little monster in its crib...
November 16, 2009 12:04 AM Read Full Post
Does any of it matter?
The work we do, the toil, the trouble, the late nights reading and mapping and coding to fight against an unknown foe? The testing, the evaluating, the deploying, the constant struggle to make “them” aware of the impending digital...
November 12, 2009 5:35 PM Read Full Post
2009 The Year of Computing Dangerously
The FBI has just stated that just behind a nuclear bomb and a bomb in one of our cities that an attack on the US computing infrastructure is the greatest threat we face. Advisors to the US treasury have...
October 24, 2009 1:02 AM Read Full Post
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