Securing Wireless Networks - It's The People, Not The Kit
News Founder of the Jericho Forum and global information security director Paul Simmonds criticised wireless vendors' approach to security in a panel discussion at the ZDNet IT Priorities Conference in London today.
[September 28, 2004, 14:20]
Deperimeterisation Celebrates First Birthday
News The group was formed by a group of FTSE 1,000 chief security officers (CSOs) who wanted to take the lead in thinking of ways to develop IT security, especially the concept of deperimeterisation -- making data secure at every level, rather than...
[January 14, 2005, 16:20]
Organised E-crime Targets Students For Recruitment
News According to Paul Simmonds, chief information security officer for AstraZeneca, one of the root causes of computer security issues is funding. According to Simmonds, computer criminals are in a far more lucrative trade than security professionals...
[June 20, 2008, 17:54]
'Your Borders Are Porous', IT Pros Told
News As organisations, our perimeters are becoming more and more porous," said Paul Simmonds, global information security director for ICI. The bottom line is that they are connecting outside of ICI's closed environment," said Simmonds.
[April 27, 2006, 16:50]
Jericho Forum Tears Down Walls To Outsiders
News Vendors can now play as well -- we will be opening membership shortly," said Paul Simmonds, global information security director for ICI and one of the founders of the group. The forum, Simmonds added, had also reached some decisions on the...
[November 15, 2004, 17:10]
Police To Give Cybercrime-fighting Courses
News But Paul Simmonds, co-founder of the Jericho Forum -- a security user group -- and global information security director, said it was questionable whether delegates should pay. From my point of view I'm very pleased to see them taking the initiative...
[January 19, 2005, 12:20]
The Future Of IT Security Is Fewer Walls, Not More
News ZDNet UK spoke to one of Jericho's founders, Paul Simmonds, global information security director of chemical giant ICI, about the ideas behind deperimeterisation and pushing the organisations unique take on security to the US.
[April 7, 2005, 17:35]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Among the gratifyingly talkative panellists is the reliably garrulous Paul Simmonds, global security bod at ICI, and the urbane yet un-Sir Humphryesque Dr Steve Marsh, who is the bizarrely titled Central Sponsor for Information Assurance at the...
[November 12, 2004, 17:35]
Lights Go Out For Microsoft's Anti-SP2 Tool
News It would have been nice to see Microsoft properly clarifying how this works with SUS," said Paul Simmonds, global information security director for ICI. Microsoft is today disabling its own software tool that prevented Windows XP Service Pack 2...
[April 12, 2005, 13:00]
BP: Cyberterrorism Threat Is Increasing
News But Paul Simmonds, chief of information security at ICI, said he "was yet to be convinced the situation is as bad as it's hyped to be". BP has warned of an increasing terrorist threat to the critical national infrastructure.
[June 21, 2007, 11:43]
Today's Vista Launch Is Just The Beginning
News I can't see the Vista launch making much difference to any corporate initiatives for de-perimeterisation," said Paul Simmonds, global information security director for ICI and a member of the Jericho Forum.
[November 30, 2006, 10:01]
Firms Urged To Embrace Email Encryption
News Paul Simmonds, one of the co-founders of security think tank The Jericho Forum, said that encryption would enable businesses to communicate with better levels of trust. It's available on every single email product," said Simmonds, global director...
[April 13, 2005, 14:30]
ID Management Remains Problematic For Businesses
News Paul Simmonds, director of global information security at ICI, said the main problem facing organisations was deciding how to manage access of systems by people outside of that system. Paul Simmonds from ICI said that ID cards could be linked to...
[April 27, 2007, 18:00]
Jericho Forum Voices Concerns Over VoIP Security
News Paul Simmonds, a member of Jericho Forum's board of management, said that VoIP is not yet ready for use in businesses. We don't consider VoIP to be enterprise-ready," Simmonds told ZDNet.co.uk. Simmonds said it was not part of Jericho Forum's...
[August 29, 2007, 14:31]
Police E-crime Unit Set For Gov't Go-ahead
News Paul Simmonds, former chief information security officer for ICI, added: "The response we're getting [from law enforcement] is not proportionate. The UK's proposed central e-crime police unit is close to securing the necessary government funding to...
[April 28, 2008, 8:24]

