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…
Well worth a read if you think you are alone and the only company or person whose been hacked and lost something important. You are not alone……… View Original Post
I’m not a beautiful person and I never used Ashley Madison. But my PII (personally identifiable information, a term we should all become familiar with) is important to me all the same. Here’s another example of a social media platform…
IT, like security must always be on the front foot, a business enabler and not a business driver. The role of the CIO, and importantly for me the CISO, is to enable business transformation and change, to reduce organisational risk.…
So, is this one of those ‘if I spent $100k on improving my network security, I could have helped prevent the loss of $81Mn’, or is it a combination of both poor quality internal controls and a lack of an…
You would like to think that most people are aware of cyber risk. But saying that if the Central bank of Bangladesh uses $10 switches to protect its infrastructure () then we may all need to take a good hard…
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