We can generally gauge the level of preparation and understanding a company has about their own cyber security by the way they respond externally to a cyber incident. There have been some notable examples over the years where cyber security professionals have had to put palm to face on some of the media responses placed …
Discussions at Board level on Cyber Security are generally low on reality and high on rhetoric. This is due to the meeting of two very different worlds. Between a CISO who appears to be claiming Armageddon on a daily basis unless the Board fund all requirements, and a Board who don’t have enough knowledge to …
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As cybercrime adapts to general business circumstances, a likely trend is the targeting of service providers who look after access control for other businesses. As small businesses look for support in moving to the cloud, many cloud solution providers are springing up to act as middle-men between the business and the cloud providers like AWS …
The recent BA and Marriott proposed ICO fines weighing in at just shy of £300m. What other organisations are currently sweating over being tapped on the shoulder by the ICO? Since June 2018, we have had a few notable data breaches worldwide. Each may have EU residents in their number and have the potential to …
After waiting for a year for the UK ICO to start dishing out the GDPR fines, we get two in two days! Marriott International quickly follow British Airways into the dock, with an announcement from the ICO that they intend to fine Marriott International £99m. The fine is on behalf of all European Regulators. The …
After waiting patiently for the UK Information Commissioners Office (ICO) to start the big fines process under GDPR, and expecting the first to be Facebook or similar, British Airways have beaten everybody else to the gate. The UK Information Commissioners office is proposing to fine British airways £183m for their lapse in security in 2018. …
You have been told you need to create a cyber incident response plan and I don’t know where to start. Many companies do not currently have a cyber incident response plan (link to survey), so it is likely that there are quite a few out there that are trying to get to grips with writing …
On 25th June 2019, a report was published by the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations of the US Senate on the state of cybersecurity within eight key Federal Agencies. This report has received little global coverage given the scale of the findings within its 95-pages. The findings make for scary reading for the U.S. Government and all …
If you are a Small to Medium Enterprise (SME) working for a bigger organisation as a third party, how do you comply with your security obligations as per the contract, but not spend a fortune on security tools? In the UK, the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has come out with Cyber Essentials, as a …
