British Airways had a serious data breach in 2018 and, in 2019, the English High Court authorised a class-action lawsuit against BA, covering potentially 500,000 affected customers. Marriott’s acquisition, Starwood, had suffered a major data breach that started prior to …

There are many FDs and CFOs who, even more the economic challenges of the current pandemic and looming global recession, thought that budgeting for cyber security expenditure was essentially discretionary and could be postponed or cancelled in line with P&L …

In the immediate sense, the answer is obviously ‘yes’: the Schrems II CJEU decision invalidated the EU-US Privacy Shield and put some 5,500 US entities and many more EU organisations that are exporting personal data to the US in a …

As our hopeless, hapless government dithers around the re-opening of the UK economy, it is increasingly clear that it has no vision, no plan and no basic competence at what it was elected to do. Ministers’ constant refrain is that …

You would have thought that IT Managed Service Providers would know about ransomware, wouldn’t you? Well, clearly not all MSPs are equal: US MSP, Cognizant, admitted last week that a successful April ransomware attack would negatively affect its Q2 earnings …

No. The standard was written to support organisations of all sizes, all types and in all sectors. And as it is increasingly normal for organisations to be largely or entirely home-based, accessing temporary office-space if, as and when, necessary, so …

In troubled times – when faced with socio-economic uncertainty or political instability – organisations tend to pull in their horns, cut expenditure and save for the whatever the future holds. Cyber criminals love troubled times, because they know that organisations …