Security Now Spring 2010 Issue

RECRUITMENT AGENCIES, HOW WELL DO THEY SCREEN YOUR STAFF?
According to a recent article in the May/June 2010 edition of the Work place law magazine which featured the results of an audit of pre-employment screening and security compliance of 35 interim, temporary and permanent staffing agencies you should be very concerned. The article written jointly by Norman Mortell of Agenda Security Services and Mike Stephens from a major Research Council highlighted a number of concerns resulting from the audit of over 50 different control items. The audit focused on pre-employment screening practices and in particular compliance with the Baseline Personnel Security Standard, Data Protection and general security practices...more

WHAT IS IT WITH PEOPLE AND PASSWORDS?
As featured by Tech Radar, Director of Trust and Safety at Twitter Del Harvey claimed that education of users about security is an on-going problem. Harvey said: “Everyone knows at least one person who says ‘I use the same password on every site – but it’s a really good one’, or ‘I use different passwords on every site – I take the first letter of the site and the last letter ’...more



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