People, process and systems and a little risk and controls management thrown in for good measure. With all the money begin spent on the techie stuff are companies putting enough effort into the softer things like awareness and culture. People…
It’s what I love about the whole cyber space, it touches all departments, the whole ‘C’ suite is impacted. In this case, facilities. ‘Social engineering’ whether its physical (turning up to trick your way in), or logical (phishing) is one…
Just an outstanding hack. Some people want to disrupt the real world, others want to see what they can do and how far they can go, to get data. This hack has got to be one of the more imaginative…
The marginal cost benefits maybe a good reason, not that one would be needed, for using cyber as an offensive weapon against the west. With what is potentially (99% certain) the Sony Hack under their belt, and the lack of…
So is it a case of reporter beware, a case of how to handle a cyber incident by denial, or a dose of reality. We may never know. Did those Gmail, Yahoo or Microsoft email accounts really get compromised or…
Cyber awareness maybe growing as boards start to understand the impact of a cyber attack. It feels very much like they are still a way off in building a robust risk capability to proactively assess and manage the issues. View…
Successful information security management is such a broad field it involves people, culture, process, technology, change, internal and external threat management, frameworks, risk management, awareness, training, programme management, incident management and more. Organisations which define their security risk appetite and…
This is a little worrying. Individuals social media profiles maybe monitored as part of on-going evaluation processes for some US government departments. For some people, their digital social foot print maybe something they wish they could erase. View Original Post…
If this article is true and such a large number of account information has been hacked, it does beg the question how, if systems are so secure? View Original Post
The Catholic Church’s insurance company in the US is taking on specialised cyber Insurance and risk mitigation services. The challenge ahead I think is going to be around how much cyber risk can be transferred to insurance. Given the breath…
