IT Security Archive
Risk IQ’s Evil Internet Minute infographic tells you the bad things happening every minute on the Internet: 5 successful ransomware attacks 9 phishing attacks 1,274 new malware variants 5,518 records compromised Any data you look at shows that the scale …
I’m delighted to see that the High Court has found, this morning, that Mrs May’s government cannot trigger Article 50 on its own. As far as I can see, referendums in the UK are only advisory, not binding – which …
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 …
The Chancellor of the Exchequer today says Britain will strike back at foreign cyber threats and that cyber criminals can strike everyone, from the bedroom to the board room. He’s right. Everyone – and businesses most of all – has …
Most businesses will make the best of Brexit. From a broader perspective, however, vandals are using the Brexit vote to destroy Britain. The referendum was in law directional only; neither the government nor the Brexiteers had or have a coherent …
Our internal position on GDPR and Brexit was, on 27th June 2016: The key thing, from a practical point of view, is that negotiations to leave the EU are unlikely to be completed before – at the earliest – October …
This is what I said to my staff on 27 June 2016, following the referendum result: It’s now clear that very little is clear about what happens after the Brexit vote on Thursday. The referendum result is, technically, only ‘advisory’ …
This is what I said to my staff prior to the EU Referendum: We vote on 23rd June, as a country, for whether we remain in the EU or leave it. How you vote is of course a matter for …
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 …
