
Davey Winder
Davey is a three-decade veteran technology journalist specialising in cybersecurity and privacy matters and has been a Contributing Editor at PC Pro magazine since the first issue was published in 1994. He's also a Senior Contributor at Forbes, and co-founder of the Forbes Straight Talking Cyber video project that won the ‘Most Educational Content’ category at the 2021 European Cybersecurity Blogger Awards.
Davey has also picked up many other awards over the years, including the Security Serious ‘Cyber Writer of the Year’ title in 2020. As well as being the only three-time winner of the BT Security Journalist of the Year award (2006, 2008, 2010) Davey was also named BT Technology Journalist of the Year in 1996 for a forward-looking feature in PC Pro Magazine called ‘Threats to the Internet.’ In 2011 he was honoured with the Enigma Award for a lifetime contribution to IT security journalism which, thankfully, didn’t end his ongoing contributions - or his life for that matter.
You can follow Davey on Twitter @happygeek, or email him at davey@happygeek.com.
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Hacking back: active defence for the enterprise
In-depth is striking back an advisable strategy for the enterprise? Davey Winder has been investigating.
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Penetration testing: an enterprise guide
In-depth Davey Winder investigates the role of penetration testing within the enterprise: What is it and why do you need it?
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Secure business transformation
In-depth Davey Winder investigates how to best protect enterprise networks and data while embracing BYOD, cloud and virtualisation.
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The sweet smell of IT security: Understanding honeypots
In-depth Davey Winder delves into the world of security traps and advises how to beat the bad guys at their own game.
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Enterprise security in an 'everything, everywhere' world
In-depth Is the everything, everywhere, all the time, work ethic destroying secure collaboration in the enterprise?
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Is Social Collaboration in the Enterprise doomed to fail?
In-depth How can your business ensure success when it comes to social collaboration in the enterprise?
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Getting to grips with Big Data security
In-depth Davey Winder asked the big security questions about Big Data and has found experts with the answers...
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AWS S3 problems - don't point the finger at Amazon, blame users
Opinion The reported security flaws in S3 sound worrying but before people blame AWS they should look at themselves
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The encryption maturity curve
In-depth Davey Winder puts forward a strategic business case for encryption.
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Evernote data breach: lessons to be learned
In-depth A month on, Davey Winder analyses what others can learn from the Evernote data breach...
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Cyber crime: Exploit kits in the enterprise
In-depth Cyber crime is big business and exploit kits represent one of the most critical security challenges facing the enterprise today...
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The impact of mandatory breach notifications on UK plc
In-depth What do the latest EU plans mean for the UK and will it make the European enterprise a safer place?
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Rogue clouds? Shadow IT? CIOs need to get a grip
Opinion Terms such as rogue clouds aren't helpful. They're fulfilling a business need and CIOs should recognise this and improve the security
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What's wrong with Java?
In-depth In light of numerous security scares, Davey Winder questions what's wrong with Java and whether it still has a place in the enterprise?
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How to win the IT security war: think like a soldier
In-depth Is it time for the enterprise to step up and start employing military-grade IT defences, asks Davey Winder...
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Cloud security? I'm sorry, I haven't a clue...
Opinion We're a nation of dunces when we come to cloud - and as for our approach to cloud security ...
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Preventing DDoS armageddon
In-depth Davey Winder ponders how large a DDoS attack would have to be to take down multiple providers, and asks what businesses can do to protect themselves.
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Infosec ignorance is not an option for enterprises
In-depth Reports suggest more than half of enterprises lack infosec knowledge and a third admit to not being aware of recent business cyber security epidemics. What's gone wrong? Davey Winder tries to answer that very question.
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Can you trust the cloud in a crisis?
In-depth The cloud is about more than just data storage and 'anytime/anywhere' file access. It's also increasingly being used as an enterprise disaster recovery tool. The question is, though, can you really trust the cloud in a crisis? Davey Winder investigates...
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How secure is Windows 8?
In-depth The latest addition to the Windows operating system family has been out for a while now, but is it secure enough for business users? Davey Winder investigates...
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Cyber criminals can hack on the cheap thanks to Google
Opinion A new research paper has described how hackers can benefit from Google for cheap cloud computing - will this open the floodgates?
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Cryptography attack: side-channel cloud threat is all nerd and no knickers
Opinion Side channel attacks could threaten cloud security in a big way. Best to be prepared
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13 security threats to counter in 2013
In-depth As the end of the year closes in on us, it's time to think about the profile of the enterprise threat surface for the coming 12 months. Davey Winder has been asking the IT Security industry to do some crystal ball gazing...
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Why Darwin was right about IT security
In-depth There's a great cartoon out to be found out there on the interweb which shows the state of the IT security industry in 2002 as a bunch of folk with nets chasing after a relatively small fish, and then in 2012 as a couple of giant fish chasing those same net-holding folk. It's something of an exaggeration but, as with all the best satirical lampooning, there's an element of truth to it: the bad guys are no longer the hunted, in many ways they are doing the hunting.
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