News of the Carphone Warehouse and Ashley Madison
hacking incidents has confirmed that online security is still coming up short -
something that was further proved by a recent study, which found that the data scrambling
systems used by millions of web servers are much weaker than they should be.
But continuous
occurrences like these only highlight what the key message is here – make sure
security is reviewed by people who know what they’re doing rather than just
accepting that it’s okay.
This on-going issue of online security is unfortunately
just an afterthought to almost everyone, from consumers to major companies and
even whole industries.
I believe that one of the main factors in this problem
is that companies tend to have a team of developers who are usually managed by
people who just don’t know enough about security.
Of course something like ISO27001:2013 show which
companies are taking data security more seriously. As we hear more about the
breaching of businesses who handle our data, I think security standards such as
these are a must have.
Originally published in Conference News
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