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Infosecurity 2012 is taking place at Earl’s Court on 24 – 26 April. Gower author, Ian Mann, will be at the event with his company ECSC Ltd on stand E80.
Ian will be presenting at the event in the Business Strategy Theatre at 12pm on Thursday 26th April with the headline of Social Engineering IX – Hacking the Globe – a snappy little title, that sets the theme for an examination of cultural differences that impact on the task of the social engineer. This is the result of his social engineering work across a number of continents.
Do pop in and see Ian on the ECSC stand at any time during the three days - he will be doing regular short presentations each day. ECSC are vendor independent information security specialists offering expert guidance, support and management services.
Ian’s book, Hacking the Human is available from Gower Publishing.
Having a robust risk management strategy in place is essential for ensuring your organisation runs as smoothly as possible. Penny Pullan and Ruth Murray-Webster’s book focuses on facilitating risk management so that you are able to identify, own and manage risks.
You can read Chapter 1 for free, to give you a taste of the book and its authoritative content.
Penny and Ruth are running a 2 day workshop on 21 & 22 February 2012 at the Radisson Blu East Hotel at East Midlands Airport. The two days focus on and delve deeper into the topics covered in their book A Short Guide to Facilitating Risk Management.
You can find out more information about this event here.
Following Wikipedia’s Blackout in protest to the Intellectual Property and Online Piracy acts being debated in America, many have begun wondering what the future could hold for the business models in the film and music industries and whether these business models themselves are outdated.
Jane Lambert, has written a number of articles on her blog, that give a good background to IP policy and the film and music industries:
IPC Policy: Does Hargreaves say Anything New?
Injunctions against ISPs Part II: the CJEU’s Judgment in Scarlet
Jane is the author of Enforcing Intellectual Property Rights
Weak people who are a waste of space in business! Rape cases that are not so bad, and rape cases that are not so good! Elderly disabled people in Birmingham on the receiving end of threatened budget cuts to the (totally essential) care that they receive. Women even being told they shouldn’t wear mini skirts after 35, or bikinis after 47, or high heels after 51. (Ageist, eh? I wonder what Joan Collins would say to that?). Housemaids in the Middle East being treated like slaves (really very nasty indeed).
I don’t think that you should cherry pick your prejudices. You can’t pick on the weakest. You can’t reserve your Duty of Care remedies for some and not for the others, or create special cases. If you do you will inevitably get into difficulties. You need joined up thinking. Repeat, you need joined up thinking. Otherwise you will get Equality Risk. You will lose hard-earned reputation (as in the case of the Toronto Police or Birmingham City Council). You will get into trouble with all sorts of people and the media, or you will have to eat your words (Ken Clarke MP please note).
The lawyers, who are paid to know exactly what they are doing, will always cost you lots of money.
All of the topics above are current scenario’s being reported in the media and Tony Morden has covered such cases in his book A Short Guide to Equality Risk. In it, Tony analyses components of an Equality, Diversity, and Discrimination (EDD) Agenda: equality, diversity, opportunity, and discrimination to assist you in protecting yourself and your organization from this politically sensitive, and high risk subject.
Since employees a a significant source of ideas for new products, patents and inventions how can you motivate and reward them to encourage contribution? Donal O’Connell (Harvesting External Innovation) offers some useful perspectives on the law in a variety of jurisdictions and on the practicalities of reward and recognition programmes in his paper on IPEG.
Previous recessions, when organizations have been under financial stress, have lead to a rise in the cases of bullying and workplace harassment so perhaps it is an appropriate moment to mention this straight-forward awareness raising factsheet from the Kade Consultancy. Elaine Douglas of the Kade Consultancy is author of Gower’s Bullying in the Workplace training resource.
Customs expert and Gower author Catherine Truel is hosting exclusive Q&A sessions for Supply Chain Asia. Keep abreast of all discussions here.
Gower author, Catherine Truel, writes a monthly blog for Supply Chain Asia Magazine covering topics surrounding Customs Management. Her latest post Shipping from East Asia to Europe by land – can central Asia be integrated into the global supply chain? is now live.
Catherine’s book A Short Guide to Customs Risk is part of the Short Guides to Business Risk series.
Think of disputes that occur in contracts as mushrooms. To grow and spawn they need an environment which is dark and full of ‘fertilizer’. Your goal is to create an environment which is well lit and has little fertilizer for the mushrooms to feed on…
Click here to read more of this article by Dr Sara Cullen, Managing Director of The Cullen Group (www.cullengroup.com.au) and author of The Contract Scorecard.
