Davey Winder

In-depth Davey Winder investigates the value of sending IT security pros to hacker conventions

In-depth is striking back an advisable strategy for the enterprise? Davey Winder has been investigating.

In-depth Davey Winder investigates the role of penetration testing within the enterprise: What is it and why do you need it?

In-depth Davey Winder investigates how to best protect enterprise networks and data while embracing BYOD, cloud and virtualisation.

In-depth Davey Winder delves into the world of security traps and advises how to beat the bad guys at their own game.

In-depth Is the everything, everywhere, all the time, work ethic destroying secure collaboration in the enterprise?

In-depth How can your business ensure success when it comes to social collaboration in the enterprise?

In-depth Davey Winder asked the big security questions about Big Data and has found experts with the answers...

Opinion The reported security flaws in S3 sound worrying but before people blame AWS they should look at themselves

In-depth Davey Winder puts forward a strategic business case for encryption.

In-depth A month on, Davey Winder analyses what others can learn from the Evernote data breach...

In-depth Cyber crime is big business and exploit kits represent one of the most critical security challenges facing the enterprise today...

In-depth What do the latest EU plans mean for the UK and will it make the European enterprise a safer place?

Opinion Terms such as rogue clouds aren't helpful. They're fulfilling a business need and CIOs should recognise this and improve the security

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?

In-depth Is it time for the enterprise to step up and start employing military-grade IT defences, asks Davey Winder...

Opinion We're a nation of dunces when we come to cloud - and as for our approach to cloud security ...

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.

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.

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...

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...

Opinion A new research paper has described how hackers can benefit from Google for cheap cloud computing - will this open the floodgates?

Opinion Side channel attacks could threaten cloud security in a big way. Best to be prepared

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...

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.