The art of alchemy

Normally the focus of any organisation is on the protection of ‘hard’ information, e.g. intellectual property, within the implementation of their information security program. This article discusses how the potential risks associated with the leakage of ‘soft’ information (that in itself may hold no value) into the public domain is higher today than it has ever been before. The article also offers some measures that can be taken to mitigate these risks.