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WhatsApp Controversy

With WhatsApp new notification, talks have been making rounds about using Signal or Telegram or other platforms like Gab et al. However, the user community is forgetting their power to make businesses bend to their demand. Today, its WhatsApp, tomorrow if Signal or Telegram or other such platforms start acting in the same bullish fashion …

Data Security and Facebook

An online report published by CNET on September 4, 2019 identified that at least 419 million records  of phone numbers tied with Facebook accounts appeared in databases online. The report was based on the revelation by TechCrunch.  The exposure identified 133 million users from US alone and another 18 million and 50 million records from UK and Vietnam …

Risk Assessment and Management – A Life Cycle Approach

1 Executive Summary Information Security Risk Management has gained momentum across the industry verticals. The CXOs across the industry segment are now focusing more and more on the ways and means of containing the troika of threat, vulnerabilities and risks to acceptable levels. Various vendors have introduced tools and various service providers have come up …

Information Security and Governing Structures

Information Security today is Governed by Regulations, Standards, Guidelines and Industry Best Practices.  They provide for frameworks, methodologies and approaches to attain Information Security baselines. Compliance to any of them is just meeting these baselines, but there is more to be done over and above the compliance.  Compliance achievement is something that holds importance with …