IT Governance Archive
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 …
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 …
According to the recent ISBS 2013 Survey, 78% of large organisations were attacked by an unauthorised outsider last year (an increase from 73% the previous year), while 63% of small organisations were similarly attacked from outside – a big increase …
Cyber security costs money – but then, so does cyber insecurity – and the problem with data breach costs is that they are usually accompanied by even more expensive business disruption and reputation damage – often when you need it …
The 2013 Information Security Breaches Survey – published yesterday – makes it very clear that the vast majority of business managements and boards are all concerned about cyber security, but are signally failing to translate that concern into a set …
In a (hastily withdrawn because published ahead of its official release date) news article describing the findings of the Information Security Breaches Survey 2013, the UK’s Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) will tomorrow (Tuesday 23 April) report that 87% of …
