There’s a slow awakening that EU NIS 2 and DORA are on their way and they will affect the boards of covered entities, that includes the potential for civil and criminal penalties and temporary board suspensions. In Ireland alone over…
The U.S DoD has worked out that Defense in Depth is the right way to go to secure its networks, and that the CISA strategy of Continuous Diagnostic Mitigation () has to be implemented. @Thaddeus Dziekanowski, the DoD is also…
Olaf Classen, when you are so dependent on a product or service to run you business operations considering cybersecurity is important. Even more so when your products and services are raised as a threat to National Security. Globally the public…
What happens when you bugger around with OT and industrial processes; demonstrated back in 2022 when it was reported that Predatory Sparrow (you gotta love the name) hacked a steel mill in Iran. Causing it to malfunction and pour molten…
What could possibly go wrong? Open Source code, Operational Technology, industrial processes and cybersecurity. To quote an old engineering colleague from Rolls Royce plc ‘Don’t bugger around with OT, get it wrong and you kill people’. It’s easy to say…
The FBI has been raising the threat of Chinese backed hackers attacking U.S CNI for the passed year. One has to hope that CNI providers have taken the warning seriously. For security agencies such as the NSA to come out…
The UK National Cyber Security Center (NCSC) has released a plan to help organisations that are struggling with cyber essentials compliance. One accepts that cyber hygiene is critical to cybersecurity risk management. But the picture has changed so much over…
The London Stock Exchange seems to be loosing allot of companies and cash. Darktrace’s departure to Private Equity is just one example of the firms that have left the exchange, recently; including Biotech firm Abcam, plumbing supplier Ferguson and packaging…
One has to say that the message isn’t wrong and has been proven by the U.S. The U.S has shown through several GAO audits that the Defense Industry Base, both domestic and international, have in general not complied with DFARS…
U.S Private equity firm Thoma Bravo has bought Darktrace for $5.32billion, offering a 44% premium on Darktrace’s three month average. One suspects, given the reported challenges at Darktrace of culture and market focus, the PE house sees opportunities to develop…
