IT security and the big bad internet world

In a week that saw Garda Commissioner Nóirín O’Sullivan heavily criticised for using a private email account for official correspondence, it’s interesting to note that IT security experts say this kind of behaviour is relatively common.

It appears that the reason O’Sullivan occasionally used a Gmail account for official business is to do with limitations on the Garda email system around file size and storage. In short, she did it because it was ...