Cyber Security Archive
If there are any positives to come out of the Butlin’s data breach, it’s that they reported it within 72 hours – a requirement of the EU GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation). The breach, which has apparently affected some 34,000 …
Dixons Carphone, explaining its massive cyber security breach in a full page notice in today’s Times, says: “We’re extremely sorry about what has happened – we’ve fallen short here.” They’re right, they have – not least in the fact that it …
As organisations across the world look forward to the holiday season, it’s worth reviewing the perspective of data thieves and cyber attackers. If key staff are on holiday, cyber security defences will be weaker and less agile. If remaining staff …
I’ve talked, for some years, about the disconnect between managements stating that cyber security is on their agenda, or under control, and the rapidly rising number of data breaches, as reported in multiple surveys and reports, as well as increasingly …
GDPR comes into force in May 2018. The UK will still be a member of the EU at that point and, even if Mrs May hadn’t pledged that the UK would be a fully-functioning member right up to the point …
Last Thursday (12th December) the British Government issued a statement on the progress against the objectives set out in the UK Cyber Security Strategy. Unsurprisingly, making cyberspace safer for UK business remains a top priority. In order to achieve that …
In today’s underskilled cyber security market place, people ask whether they should acquire a CISSP or CISM qualification. Each qualification has different strengths – so, which do you think information security professionals should pursue? Where do you think CISMP fits into a …
New cybersecurity surveys continue to point at the two main challenges faced by most smaller businesses in terms of defending against cyber attack: They don’t know where they are vulnerable; and They don’t have the skills to close down the …
Eugene Kapersky – the founder of Kaspersky Lab, the world’s largest privately-held anti-malware vendor – made four important points in his cybersecurity seminar at Infosec 2013: “Every company is a victim of cyber attacks, whether they know it or not;” Even smaller …
I talked, earlier this week, about the evident gap between the concern expressed (in the 2013 ISBS survey) by the majority of managers about cyber security and the fact that their organisations continue to be breached, and linked this to …
