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Home News Infosec still in the Dark 28XX-XX APRIL MONTH - 4 MAY 2015 Ages, says RSA chief Lintel shuns traditional bank IT strategy How Comic Relief used The National Trust’s cloud to bank £78m National Trust CIO leads great IT renovation £40m IT transformation CIO Sarah Flannigan’s three-year, £40m IT transformation strategy Editor’s comment represents the biggest change project in the charity’s history Opinion Buyer’s guide to next-generation e-commerce Make applications resilient on AWS Downtime SIMONWHITEHURST/FOTOLIA (BLICKLING HALL) SIMONWHITEHURST/FOTOLIA computerweekly.com computerweekly.com 28 April - 4 May 2015 1 THE WEEK IN IT Home News IT services firm Accenture Merrill Lynch fined £13.2m chosen to run NHS email service by FCA for reporting failures Infosec still in the Dark The new NHS email service will Investment bank Merrill Lynch Ages, says RSA chief be provided by Accenture. The International has been fined IT services firm was announced £13.2m by the Financial Conduct Lintel shuns traditional bank IT strategy as the preferred bidder by the Authority (FCA) for failures Health and Social Care Information related to reporting transactions. How Comic Relief used Centre, which runs the NHSmail The company was found to have cloud to bank £78m system on behalf of the health incorrectly reported more than 35 service. Negotiations will now start million transactions and failed to ERMINAWATERS/ISTOCK National Trust CIO leads on the final contract. More than report a further 121,387 between £40m IT transformation two-thirds of the NHS use the cur- November 2007 and November Post Office failed to rent NHSmail service, which runs 2014. The fine is the FCA’s largest Editor’s comment investigate account on Microsoft Exchange 2007. ever for reporting failures. shortfalls before legal Opinion Collaboration key to cyber Tesco’s online grocery sales action, report claims Buyer’s guide security, says US security chief increase despite £6.37bn loss to next-generation Collaboration between govern- Supermarket Tesco has posted An independent report into alleged e-commerce ments and with the private sector a pre-tax loss of £6.37bn in its problems with the Post Office’s Horizon is key to improving global cyber annual results, despite its online accounting system said the organisation Make applications resilient on AWS security, according to Jeh Johnson, grocery business growing ahead had been too quick to take legal the head of the US Department of of the market. The retailer claimed action against subpostmasters. The Downtime Homeland Security. “Cyber secu- in its results announcement that much-anticipated report, carried out rity is a major priority for president its online ordering business grew by Second Sight, said the Post Office Barack Obama, his entire admin- by almost 20% in the past year. had failed to find out why large cash istration and the Department of Despite this, the firm reported the shortfalls occurred before starting legal Homeland Security,” he told RSA biggest loss in its history, in part proceedings against subpostmasters. Conference 2015 in San Francisco. due to dwindling footfall. ❯Catch up with the latest IT news online computerweekly.com 28 April - 4 May 2015 2 THE WEEK IN IT Home News IBM blames strong US dollar Bloomberg glitch causes chaos for drop in first-quarter revenues for finance sector workers Cloud infrastructure Infosec still in the Dark IBM reported its net income from Finance sector workers were unable spend set to hit $52bn Ages, says RSA chief continuing operations was $2.4bn to use their Bloomberg terminals in the first quarter of 2015, down when systems went offline on in 2019 Lintel shuns traditional bank IT strategy by 5% on the same period in 2014. 17 April. Although services were Cloud infrastructure spend Revenues from continuing opera- restored, trading companies contin- n 2014 n 2015 How Comic Relief used tions totalled $19.6bn for the quar- ued to experience problems due to cloud to bank £78m ter, down by 12%. IBM blamed the systems being slow as users tried strong US dollar. to catch up. National Trust CIO leads £40m IT transformation Fife Council approves £100m Huawei calls for global green datacentre building plans consensus on future network Editor’s comment Fife Council has approved plans to At Huawei’s 12th annual Global build a £100m datacentre campus Analyst Summit in Shenzhen, Opinion in Glenrothes, Scotland, with the China, company bosses called $10.3bn $12bn $17bn $21bn Buyer’s guide first of two phases to be completed on the wider industry to to next-generation by the end of 2016. The site will embrace collaboration to build a Private cloud Public cloud e-commerce be home to the largest co-location better-functioning network to meet datacentre campus in Scotland. the demands of future customers. Source: IDC Make applications resilient on AWS Monster calls on industry to UK startups facing too many . Downtime start promoting women in IT challenges, say entrepreneurs ❯ Trading desks lose $5m a year due to poor technology. Recruitment firm Monster has UK digital startups are up against ❯ HSBC website mistake guides customers to porn. called on the IT industry to join it a number of challenges to develop ❯ Rackspace opens Crawley datacentre. in forging a tech talent charter, in a London’s digital economy, business ❯ Comic Relief unveils Tech for Good funding. bid to encourage more girls into the leaders said at a recent Westminster technology sector. Policy Forum seminar. n ❯Catch up with the latest IT news online computerweekly.com 28 April - 4 May 2015 3 ANALYSIS Home News Infosec still in Dark Ages, says RSA chief Infosec still in the Dark Ages, says RSA chief Amit Yoran sets out five-point plan for security industry to bring its operations up to date.Warwick Ashford reports Lintel shuns traditional bank IT strategy t is time for information security to escape the Dark Ages, intrusion detection systems, anti-virus platforms and fire- according to Amit Yoran, president of RSA, the security division wall logs, implementing the glorious and increasingly useless How Comic Relief used of EMC. While technology may soon be capable of accelerating money pit known as the Siem [security information and event cloud to bank £78m I its own development, “we are still in the Dark Ages of information management],” he said. security”, he told the opening session of RSA Conference 2015. Although the terrain has changed, many information security National Trust CIO leads The fact that 2014 was yet another “year of the breach” indi- professionals are still clinging to their old maps, said Yoran. “It’s £40m IT transformation cates that “things are getting worse, not better” and another time to realise that things are different.” reminder that “we are losing this contest”, said Yoran. He went as Editor’s comment far as to say that adversaries are “outmanoeuvring the industry, Age of Enlightenment outgunning the industry, and winning by every measure”. Echoing previous calls to arms to the security industry by Opinion According to Yoran, the industry has promoted a defensive recently retired RSA executive chairman Art Coviello, Yoran Buyer’s guide strategy that aligns with a Dark Ages mindset of simply “building said: “It is time for a renewed sense of exploration, awareness to next-generation taller castle walls and digging deeper moats”, but that is not solv- and understanding. It’s time for security to escape the Dark e-commerce ing the problem. “It is like we’re working from a map of a world Ages and pursue our own Age of Enlightenment.” that no longer exists, and possibly never did,” he said. Yoran, who is responsible for developing RSA’s strategic vision, Make applications resilient on AWS Yoran said that despite knowing perimeters are not sufficient, said there are five things the security industry should do to change the perimeter mindset persists, and the security profession con- the way it operates. Downtime tinues to rely on signature-based systems. “We’ve all heard that First, information security professionals have to stop believing the threats that matter most are the ones you haven’t seen before,” that even advanced protections work. The reality that underlies he said. “These tools, by definition, are incapable of detecting the every intrusion, he said, is that a well-resourced, creative and threats that matter to us most.” focused adversary will get into any IT environment they target. And yet, many security professionals base their security on “We’re seeing analytics-resistant malware that can evade the “futile aggregation of telemetry from these virtually blind detection by sandboxes and other advanced systems,” he said. computerweekly.com 28 April - 4 May 2015 4 ANALYSIS Home News “No matter how high or smart the walls, focused adversaries will find ways over, under, around and through.” RSA Infosec still in the Dark Ages, says RSA chief Visibility essential Second, information security professionals must adopt a deep Lintel shuns traditional bank IT strategy and pervasive level of true visibility everywhere, from the end- point to the network to the cloud, said Yoran. This end-to-end How Comic Relief used visibility is necessary if organisations are to have any hope of cloud to bank £78m seeing the advanced threats that are increasingly today’s norm. “Even now, many organisations operate completely blind as to National Trust CIO leads whether they are victim to these published techniques. We need Amit Yoran: “No matter £40m IT transformation how high or smart the walls, pervasive and true visibility into our enterprise environments.” focused adversaries will find He said the visibility of both continuous full packet capture and Editor’s comment ways through” endpoint compromise assessment is essential to information security.