Karen Lawrence Oqvist
During the past 20 years Karen Lawrence Oqvist"s experience in IT and information security has spanned diverse verticals and many countries. Today she works with Hewlett-Packard as a senior security architect as well as program manager for HP"s Information Security Service Management (ISSM).
She has a Masters Degree in Information Security from the Royal Holloway University of London and is studying for an MBA with Henley Management School, University of Reading.
Karen is a published author on the subject of identity, privacy and information sharing and hosts a blog at ww.virtualshadows.com. Her book "Virtual Shadows" was published by the British Informatics Society (BCS) in January 2009. She is a frequent speaker at conferences in Europe both on the subject of identity and privacy, and information security management.
Articles by Karen Lawrence Oqvist:
Get to Know Your Plumbing: Protecting Your Organisation From Leaking 'Soft Information'
Sunday, 4th October 2009
These days organisations can run themselves ragged protecting their internal information assets, but it's of little comfort when 'soft' information - information that may have little inherent value, but yield knowledge when linked up with hard information by competitors - is so easily shared by employees within their social networks outside the workplace. Karen Lawrence Öqvist provides pointers for organisations to turn those potential intelligence risks into receptors by providing a forum in which employees can share and be heard within the workplace.
Get to Know Your Plumbing: Protecting Your Organisation From Leaking 'Soft Information' [ABSTRACT]
Sunday, 4th October 2009
These days organisations can run themselves ragged protecting their internal information assets, but it's of little comfort when 'soft' information - information that may have little inherent value, but yield knowledge when linked up with hard information by competitors - is so easily shared by employees within their social networks outside the workplace. Karen Lawrence Öqvist provides pointers for organisations to turn those potential intelligence risks into receptors by providing a forum in which employees can share and be heard within the workplace.
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