Tech Risk & Security

I have been busy with my LLM study at The Hong Kong University in the past year. All goes well, I will graduate this year. The course I took covers Telecommunication, Cybercrime and IP. Will share about all these topic in the coming posts. First, PISA will has several events in pipeline. Today, we just finished an Oracle Security Seminar On 31 May, there will be Data Protection Public Forum . Speakers from ISACA, ISOC and Privacy Commissioner will share their view on recent incidence on data breaches . Then on 5 June, PISA invited Aloysius Cheang (Head of Security Services for Cable&Wireless Asia-Pacific) to share his experience on malware detections and preventions.

The IEEE is working on a standard for USB and other flash authentications. The new protocol is a standardization on how a USB disk could authenticate against a computer. That is how you could limit which portable disk to be able to store your data. It is a long-waited protocol and is vital for protection against data-theft. Authentication in Transient Storage Device Attachments The standard will be published in June 2007

IT Compliance Institute just released PCI Industry standard audit checklist . It also include a self-assessment questionniare.