Feeling the pain. what was it like to be on the inside of a catastrophic hack? In this case Equifax. Impacting over 160 million customers. costing the CEO. CIO and CISO their jobs, $700Mn in fines and incidentally $1.2Bn to…
Being honest, open, transparent and sharing information with corporate peers about cyber security threats and incidents may deliver more benefits to companies than not. Regulators, government agencies and industry bodies would like companies to share more information on cyber issues,…
A report well worth a read. Just In Time, the manufacturing process which ensures that we get what we want at an economic price has many benefits in efficiency, productivity and timeliness. But it has drawbacks; if things don’t arrive…
There has been a big push from the insurance industry to underwrite cyber risk. It’s well known and understood that they are underwriting a risk that they do not understand, with policies which do not clearly articulate the exact levels…
The personal data of around 7.5 million Adobe customers was found by security researchers, who were able to access prototype environments. It raises the question of why was data, which contained the email addresses, client IDs, member IDs, payment status…
MPs in the UK are concerned over the rise in the number of online failures and customer disruption from British banks. With cloud services highlighted as a major worry and source of systemic risk. There are further concern raised by…
Things are not all be as they seem to be with cyber insurance. Cyber is a very complicated enterprise wide risk and not all policies cover all aspects of cyber related attacks, frauds and subsequent costs. When it comes down…
This is well worth a read, from the lawyers. The US Department of Defense requirements for cyber security compliance, under the proposed CMMC programme. Will require ‘A change of culture, take time, be painful, and it’s cost money’, according to…
I cannot think of any manufacturing company which does not rely upon Operations Technology from loaves of bread, headache tablets, cars to tins of beans and soft drinks. Or the interface between these systems and business systems for supply chain…
When are black swan events not black swan events? When they are no longer so far down the tail that they become the norm. Are cyber-attacks now part of the norm, are they risks we should all understand and plan…
