UK SMEs with weak security risk procurement exclusion – survey SMEs need to take cyber security seriously or face being frozen out of the procurement process, according to a new survey from management consultants KPMG. In a poll of UK procurement managers, nearly all (94 per cent) agreed that the cyber security standards of their supplier are important when awarding a contract to an SME. …
"SMEs need to take cyber security seriously or face being frozen out of the procurement process, according to a new survey from management consultants KPMG."
OK. So can the same rules be applied to the not-Small, bigger-than-Medium Enterprises?
Oh. Right. Of course not. Sigh...
There is no security in the UK any more :
http://news.slashdot.org/story/15/11/03/0256231/internet-firms-to-be-banned-from-offering-unbreakable-encryption-under-new-uk-laws?utm_source=feedburnerNetvibes&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Slashdot%2Fslashdot+%28Slashdot%29&utm_content=Netvibes
They must keep their data absolutely secure.
But they are not allowed to use secure encryption.
But that's all right - the government will just pass a law saying that it is possible to do this.
And while they're doing that, they could simplify the maths by passing a law making Pi equal to three.
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