Just as the list of potential advantages might make you think, "Why aren't we doing this?" there is an equal number of disadvantages and potential pitfalls that could make you (and your CEO and CFO) wonder, "Why are we doing this?" That will most likely happen when users experience network delays and poor-quality voice communications.

It seems that every day the world becomes more fast-paced and competitive. To stay in the game frequently demands that you turn to outside developers and services in order to meet tight schedules and even tighter budgets and stay ahead of the competition.

The compromise and loss of Personally Identifiable Information (PII) has become a growing problem on the Internet.  Cyber criminals, human error and a variety of other issues have made this one of the largest risks in information security today.

One of the greatest challenges defending your organisation is understanding who is targeting you, how will they attack you and why. The more you know about your threats, the more effectively you can prioritise and defend against them. One of the most successful tools for gathering this type of information is the honeypot. In this article Lance Spitzner, President of HoneyTech, an information security consultancy based in Dubai introduces the concept of honeypots and how the technology works, the different types and examples of how they help you and the Internet in general.

One of the challenges we face in the Middle-East is how organisations approach information security.  Specifically, many organisations in the GCC take a technology centric approach to reducing risk.  They buy the latest security technologies, install a variety boxes on their networks and consider themselves secure.  However technology only plays a very small part in reducing risk.