We have to close the gap between the top, middle and bottom? Senior leaders manage the businesses, which create the products and services customers use. Teams working for those companies create the products and services they use and sell. But…
Externally facing assets need to be assessed for critical vulnerabilities and patched An interesting study has found. Small to Mid-sized businesses are 3 times more likely to have unpatched assets than their larger peers. Which is a little worrying as…
For the UK the Huawei relationship is a very deep and complex one. On one side there are many of our partners like the US and Australia who have, or are, removing the company from their networks. For well rooted…
The UK Government has announced plans to legislate security on internet connected devices, the IoT. A positive move by all accounts, if done properly. Setting standards for manufactures to secure their products and giving customers a level of reassurance over…
The global power and utilities markets are moving ahead quickly with new infrastructure and services to improve efficiency and sustainability, which could deliver over $600Bn back to society according to the WEF. But the costs of a large scale cyber…
Following a filing to the US DoE, it looks like the power outage suffered in the Western US states of California, Utah and Wyoming in March this year was caused by a Cyber Incident. But as yet there is no…
Some useful lessons, which followed the Triton attack in 2017. It identified some basic security principles which should have been put it place. Safety critical systems on internet facing networks, poor network segregation and easy credential harvesting. Industrial cyber is…
I say that cyber is an enterprise wide risk, its not a technology issue anymore. Securing the corporate balance sheet is a subject the Chair, CEO and all members of the board must focus on (its a team sport). Unfortunately…
The cost of the ransomware at Norsk Hydro was $52Mn in the first quarter. If I read this correctly, the attack took place around the 19th of March that’s about 2 weeks before the end of the quarter. Their cyber…
Whilst the top names on Wall Street are out their pushing the Cyber message. Its still worrying that many companies are simply not prepared to respond in the event of an attack. The size of some firms and their interconnected…
