Humans are typically the weakest link in any security system and the starting-point for many cyber-attacks is to exploit human weaknesses. But all too often, we pay too little attention to the human dimension in corporate security. David Emm from Kaspersky Lab examines the issue and offers some perspectives on trying to 'patch' human resources in business.

The talk is taken from Secure South West 2013, which was held at Plymouth University on 25 March 2013.

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The famous cartoon is celebrating it's 20th birthday, yet it's more true today than ever, and we still have not addressed the problem. Paul Simmonds, CEO of the Global Identity Foundation, contends that the solution to beating the cyber-criminals lies in BYOiD and leveraging the identity and attributes of all the components in the transaction chain to make good risk-based decisions. The talk is from Secure South West 2013, held at Plymouth University on 25 March 2013.

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Andrea Simmons from HP Enterprise Services contends that worshipping at the foot of all things "cyber" is proving to be a distraction that is taking us off course from succeeding at our necessary information security endeavours. This presentation will seek to cut through the cyber-waffle and bring us back to the basics.

The talk is taken from Secure South West 2013, which was held at Plymouth University on 25 March 2013.

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A panel session held during Kaspersky Academy's Cyber Security for the Next Generation conference in Singapore on 22 March 2013, with contributions from invited academics and Kaspersky Lab experts.

Questions were posed by Sergey Novikov, Deputy Director of Kaspersky Lab's Global Research and Analysis Team, as well as from members of the audience.

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Thomas Hackner outlines the principles of physical threat assessment, looking at the issues and approvals that need to be considered in advance, and considering the outer and inner perimeter defences that ought to be examined as part of the assessment.

The content is taken from a presentation delivered to members of the Computer and Information Security Society at Plymouth University on 13 February 2013.

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Andrea Simmons, Global Head of Policy & Governance at HP Enterprise Services, discusses the issue of professionalism in information security. She begins by reflecting upon key aspects of her own career path, before moving on to examine the contribution being made by CESG's Information Assurance Professionals Scheme in defining key roles and skills involved. The talk was delivered to the Computer & Information Security Society at Plymouth University on 16 January 2013. [(CC) BY-NC-SA 2.0 UK]

Prof. Steven Furnell considers the extent to which inherent usability challenges are presented across a range of potential user authentication methods that may be encountered on PCs, web sites, and mobile devices.

The material here is an extract from a wider talk about the usability of security technologies, which was presented at the University of Piraeus in Greece on 10th January 2013. [Released under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 UK: England & Wales licenc

Alan Thake from ESET UK discusses some of the prominent challenges facing users and organisations in the current threat landscape, with issues including spam, phishing and mobile malware. He also reflects upon some of the specific threat highlights that occurred over the calendar year in 2011.

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Scenes from the Retro Computing event hosted at Plymouth University in late November 2012. The film shows a variety of the systems on show, followed by some of the software they were running. The event was organised with support from the South West Branch of BCS, the Chartered Institute for IT. [Released under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 UK: England & Wales licence.]

Prof. Steven Furnell outlines the problem of malware on mobile devices, looking at how it has been a long-predicted threat, which is now growing to become a more notable problem for users on some mobile device platforms.

The material was recorded during a lecture to second year undergraduates in Autumn of 2012, and was part of a wider topic about securing end systems. [Released under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 UK: England & Wales licence.]