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That Titanic moment: avoiding the security iceberg

By Davey Winder in Editorial

Posted in Security on August 15, 2006 at 4:40 pm

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As someone with more than a passing interest in IT security, the last three months have been thoroughly depressing to say the least. Not a week seems to have gone by without a major company, of a size that ought to know better, being involved in a, frankly, outrageous display of security silliness. The fact that they tend to be involved in the kind of market sector where security is absolutely vital to brand reputation and customer trust only compounds the madness of the mistakes made.

Perhaps nowhere is this truer than the case of HSBC, which found itself on the front pages of the national newspapers and headlining television news bulletins following the discovery by Cardiff University researchers that it

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