An ISACA leader has welcomed a Business2Community newswire editorial calling for organisations to include software testing as a key stage of their security governance strategy, noting that by including testing prior to choosing the actual applications, it can prevent problems at the software deployment stage.

 Christos K. Dimitriadis, CISA, CISM, CRISC, international vice president of ISACA and chair of ISACA’s COBIT Security Task Force, says that software security governance should be a central facet of any organisation’s security plan, but is often overlooked, as it is frequently seen as a relatively mundane process.

An ISACA leader has welcomed a Business2Community newswire editorial calling for organisations to include software testing as a key stage of their security governance strategy, noting that by including testing prior to choosing the actual applications, it can prevent problems at the software deployment stage.

Christos K. Dimitriadis, CISA, CISM, CRISC, international vice president of ISACA and chair of ISACA’s COBIT Security Task Force, says that software security governance should be a central facet of any organisation’s security plan, but is often overlooked, as it is frequently seen as a relatively mundane process

Cryptzone Vice President: “Children are using technology at a younger and younger age, but are not hearing suitable security messages often enough. Many parents are in the dark themselves, so unable to pass on these skills to their children.”

 Responding to comments made by Singapore’s communications minister on the constant and dynamic changes taking place in the ICT arena – and the positive and negative issues that cyberspace creates for business and society in general - Cryptzone says that IT security education is crucial in meeting what Minister Yaacob Ibrahim is calling for.

London, UK, 17th JULY 2012 – Research conducted by Varonis Systems Inc. (http://www.varonis.com), the leading provider of comprehensive data governance software, has found that while 80 percent of companies do not allow their employees to use cloud based file synchronization services, 70 percent of companies would use these services if they were as robust as internal tools. For the research, decision makers were interviewed about the emerging shift from Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) to Bring Your Own Services (BYOS).

The results indicate that while the vast majority of organizations would like to harness the power and ease that file synchronization technology could give them, only 20 percent currently allow these services due to fears of data leakage, security breaches and compliance issues.