They start them young in Finland. Goes to show that vulnerabilities are out there, just looking for the compromise. View Original Post
Water, sewage, banking, food, healthcare, police, fire. In today’s digital economy we are all reliant on technology to carry on with our daily lives. It’s interesting to see cyber up there with macro economic threat again, although as Benjamin Disraeli…
It may not be you who is losing ‘your’ PII. It maybe your supplier who is at risk and you may still be liable. It doesn’t matter how securely you manage personal data, if you are classed as the data…
Cyber Insurance is something I have had to look at and advise upon for a few clients. It’s a minefield which is difficult to navigate and a high risk game given the sums involved, where little is understood by boards…
The latest release of the PCI DSS standard adopts some significant changes for card processing security, but some security professionals feel it does not go far enough. It sets a migration away from SSL and TLS, adds MFA requirements to…
Following the clearing of the last hurdle a couple of weeks back for the EU GDPR, the implications of the regulation are starting be felt out side of the EU. Whilst it is down to local European regulators to assess…
What will the EU GDPR mean to companies. A significant challenge companies will face will be data identification and classification. In my experience companies need to ensure they have a good understanding of what their critical business data is, what…
Well it looks like it’s true or is it just me. The European Parliament and its MEPs gave their final approval for the new European data protection rules on Thursday 14th April. Please take a look, basically it sets forth…
Revenge pornography victims as young as 11. What really worries me, outside of the obvious deplorable use such illicit content. Is the fact that the digital foot print of our children (and ourselves) cannot be erased. We need to educate…
These types of attack are becoming an inevitable fact of daily business life. Ransomware attacks are costly, not necessarily in terms of paying of the fraudsters; prices vary depending on the type of attack and how targeted it is toward…
