By-elections 20th July but mainly Uxbridge.

At the by-elections last week, the three main parties won one each, with a disappoint for the decent amongst us that the Tories held Uxbrige and South Ruislip. There is a big furore over the Labour campaign where the Tories and those close to Labour’s Leadership claiming that the Mayor’s ULEZ scheme lost it for…

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Kerckoffs’ principle

For various reasons, Kerckhoff’s Principle has come up over the horizon again. Fascinating that he posed the principle in the 19th Century. Wikipedia states the principle as, A cryptosystem should be secure even if everything about the system, except the key, is public knowledge. There’s no need to “Read More”, except to get the tags.

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Record Management

Doing some research again and decided to make some notes on “Record Management” good practice; here are my notes and links. …

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CISSP 8 Domains

The (ISC)2 amended the domains within the CISSP in 2015. This document, the  CISSP 8 Domain Refresh Summary Guide 15042015 summarises the changes.

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Who broke the internet?

This is going to be a shit storm. The CJEU has ruled that US owned storage is not “adequate protection” under EU data protection laws and that their laws around warrants are not an “effective remedy”.  They have torn up the so-called self-harbour treaty. Here are some links.

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