Mobile working is a hit with individuals and organisations, giving valuable extra flexibility and allowing workers in the field to make use of otherwise unproductive time, when using public transport for example. It is also opening up a new front in the battle over data security. While data loss due to theft of equipment, such as portable computers, is taken very seriously and can carry penalties including heavy fines or permanent bans from obtaining and holding customer details in the future, organisations need to do more to ensure Visual Security Compliance.
- NICK HUGHES, Marketing Manager, 3M
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Justin Pirie, Director of Communities and Content for Mimecast, takes a look at the ongoing debate around cloud standards.
When evaluating our effectiveness in dealing with cyber defence, we have two layers of uncertainty and risk: how effectively are we protecting critical information, and what are the adversaries actually getting and how might they use it against us? 
On the 11 October 2010 the Daily Telegraph printed an article entitled: ‘David Cameron’s secret plan to cut UK’s £149bn debt by selling off property. This is a prime example of Government departments, local authorities and the wider public sector facing rationalisation of a magnitude never before seen. To meet the government’s austerity measures it is not going to be a case of simply skimming off 10 or 20% off budgets, it is a case of finding completely different ways of working.
