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Premium Pricing (Jan/Feb 08)
Infosecurity failures can cost millions, but many insurers are reluctant to take the risk, says Danny Bradbury .. more

Take it on board (Nov/Dec 07)
Members of Infosecurity’s editorial board discuss trends for 2008, including valuing risk, mobile devices, targeted attacks and privacy legislation... more

How to dodge the red card (Nov/Dec 07)
Fingerprints looked like the best biometric to tackle hooliganism at Dutch football grounds, but trials for TNO showed they can be subverted, find researchers Jurgen den Hartog and Ruud van Munster... more

An industry born of necessity (Oct 2007)
Israel is home to a cluster of IT security vendors, as its military-trained citizens turn national security concerns into a booming export business. Eleanor Dallaway visited the country to find out more... more

An injection of new ideas (Sep 2007)
Working out the source of the next infection to hit your organisation’s information security is the subject of increasing innovation, with auctions of flaws, the Cold War’s game theories, anomaly detection and distributed computing being pressed into service. Danny Bradbury reviews the latest remedies... more

Interview: Colin Clark (Jul/Aug 2007)
The head of security for UK supermarket chain Somerfield is a careful shopper when it comes to infosecurity, with his purchase of an email retention system allowing him to save on staff training, writes Eleanor Dallaway... more

PCI: here to stay (Jul/Aug 2007)
Dan Ilett hears that the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard, which requires retailers to keep card details secure, can be expensive to meet – and is regarded with cynicism by some... more

A fairy tale: perfect database security (May/Jun 2007)
What do the brothers Grimm and SQL injection attacks have in common? William Knight investigates .... more

Interview: Bruce Schneier (May/Jun 2007)

Interview: Ray Stanton (May/Jun 2007)

Interview: Eugene Kaspersky (May/Jun 2007)

End point security: a five-year craze? (Mar 2007)
Deperimeterization secures sensitive corporate data. End point security is an essential ingredient in this concept. But how effective is it? Will everyone be jumping on the EPS bandwagon or will it prove too expensive and too impractical for small and medium sized companies? Cath Everett reports... more

Click fraud is just another business tax (Nov/Dec 2006)
Click fraud could decimate advertising budgets and even cripple companies. William Knight investigates this silent parasite... more

What's rollin' round the bend? (Nov/Dec 2006)
Ten distinguished infosecurity experts reflect on 2006 and look ahead to 2007... more

Staying power (Jul/Aug 2006)
IT security professionals have a pivotal role to play in keeping the show on the road. Mick James analyzes the opportunity.... more

Aping to defraud – corporate identities at stake (May/Jun 2006)
There are plenty of scam artists willing to shame your name by trading on your reputation. Mick James looks at the scale of the threat.... more

Zero day of the living dead (Mar/Apr 2006)
Zombie programs are plaguing the internet, turning innocent computer systems into spam spewing botnets. By William Knight... more

Italy: One of the gang (Nov/Dec 2005)
La dolce vita may be losing some of its sweetness as harmonisation with global standards sweeps through the Italian infosecurity community, says Ian Grant... more

Consultants wave integration flag (Sep/Oct 2005)
Consultants of every stripe are climbing aboard the infosecurity train. All of them carry the flag of integration. Mick James reports... more

Red tape binds virtual and physical security (May/Jun 2005)
Enterprises are under regulatory pressure to take a more rounded view of
security, physical as well as logical. Cath Everett investigates... more

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