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Case Studies
Case study: How Fidelity Investments stripped out manual processes to build greater resilience
Nazir Vellani, Fidelity Investments VP of enterprise resiliency, speaks to StrategicRISK about how the organisation built a proactive program that seamlessly detects, addresses, and rectifies risk
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Bitcoin: a risky investment
While the popularity of secretive virtual currency Bitcoin continues to soar, questions remain over its market volatility, and the risks associated with its use
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FRSGlobal buys IRIS
Combined group to launch new risk and regulatory reporting solution for financial services
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Security industry closes ranks
Industry groups have come together to raise awareness about information security, but the biggest challenge for organisations—changing behaviour—still lies ahead
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SFO employs security advisor
The Serious Fraud Office’s digital forensics unit has appointed a consultant to bolster its digital forensics capability and assess network security
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Security firms respond to RN data loss
A Royal Navy officer misplaced a government laptop containing personal information; security firms offer advice on steps to secure data
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Security predictions for 2008
A stream of high profile data losses and increasingly sophisticated financial crime is slowly edging the issue of IT security up the corporate agenda
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Social networking sites cost UK plc £6.5bn
New poll reveals the cost in lost productivity as a result of employees browsing social networking sites
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Detica urges businesses to get resilient to danger
Mounting security threats in 2008; Detica argues that businesses need to move beyond ‘security’ to ‘resilience’
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Information security remains isolated from boardroom: Survey
The research finds data protection and privacy are big drivers for information security
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FBI uncovers $20m in ‘botnet’ losses
A US investigation reveals more than 1m controlled computers as a result of botnet activity
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Security firm responds to recent data breaches
According to a Times investigation, websites are posting sensitive personal information for criminals to access
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UK firms suffer multiple data leakages
A survey found that every UK organisation without exception had suffered multiple instances of data leakage
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Risk management down under
Governance, compliance and emerging risks are top of the agenda at an annual conference for Australian risk managers, Jean-Paul Louisot reports
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Lessons from HMRC’s data loss
Would UK consumers benefit from US style data breach notification legislation? Richard Stone argues the case
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Canadian Health Agency admits to major hack
Sensitive data may have been accessed by unknown persons after a computer was taken home by a consultant
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ICM calls on government to provide consumers with free credit checks
Longer-term risk of fraud has the capacity to create the greatest damage
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Risk broker speaks out after fraud scam
ACR says businesses need to be more aware of corporate identity fraud
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McAfee responds to online robbery
McAfee says hunt for online criminals is further example of crack down on cyber criminal activity
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Fraud costs rise 40%: PWC survey
The average direct financial loss to companies has risen to US$2.4m from US$1.7m during the period 2005-2007