Category Risk

The Week in Fuel.

This week I have seen two articles from different sources regarding the fuel we put in our cars. The first article is from the BBC and is based on research conducted in America: it discusses the idea that removing lead…

Staff Screening: What are the Options?

Assent Tech Risk discusses the options for employers to security screen new staff. Choosing the right people for your organisation is critical and there are many factors to consider such as experience, qualifications and personality. Perhaps most importantly though, is…

BYOD

The Bring Your Own Device Challenge

Technology is now a very personal thing, and that trend is set to increase with the introduction of wearable tech. Staff are always ‘connected’ whether at home or at work, so inevitably the boundaries become blurred. Some companies have embraced the…

Shared Office Space: An ISO 27001 Approach

For a variety of commercial and operation reasons, office space can be shared between more than one organisation. This is particularly prominent in the tech start up culture, where ideas can be shared. However, when operating an Information Security Management…

STAR Certification for Cloud Service Providers

The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) and BSI have partnered to develop a certification scheme dedicated to the security of cloud services. STAR Certification has been designed as an enhancement to ISO27001 and a response to growing business concerns over the…

BIM-tegrity

From 15th October 2013 – Assent director Robert Clements discusses Data Integrity in the context of BIM (Building Information Modelling) on leading industry news portal BIMCrunch. entry131016-173302