Thanks for sharing Jerry, it brings home the costs of non-compliance and the figures are significant. Someone has to pay for it somewhere, usually the consumer. CMMC is an opportunity to embed cyber security best practice into the supply chain.…
There are lessons to be learnt from the implementation of GDPR. It has been a long slog and there is still some way to go. Large global programmes have their challenges and one’s which aim to make fundamental changes to…
Is the CMMC mist starting to clear? I don’t foresee the biggest challenge for CMMC being defining the rules, guidance and certification. The biggest challenge as with all cyber security programmes, will be implementation and finding cyber experts. There are…
Nation state attack on Australia, targeting government services. View Original Post
The Australian Prime Minster has gone public saying that the country is being targeted by ‘state based cyber hacks’. Targeting all all levels of government and putting everyone on notice that these attacks are a threat and everyone should be…
Master keys stored as ‘clear text’ on an internal system, at South Africa’s Post Bank were compromised in 2018. The resulting fraudulent transactions cost the bank $3.35Mn remediation cost replacing the cards for the 8-10Million affected customers was $58.7Mn. An…
Worth a read if you’re in the European and Middle East aerospace and military business. The Lazarus group (North Korea) are the primary candidate for targeting employees through LinkedIn, for espionage. The attacks are well thought through and orchestrated (you’d…
For me the security challenges which Zoom faced early on during the lock down aren’t their biggest issue. What is more significant is the potential fallout of the legal cases being bought for insider trading. The latest being a derivative…
Cyber tensions rise between Greece and Turkey as the European Union member advertises for 80 hackers to join its intelligence services. With both sides targeting government websites and services as the tensions escalate. View Original Post
A great article from the lawyers and worth a read, it summaries the current state of the CMMC programme. The programme has left the station and if it progresses as planned and DFARs gets updated in 2020. The impact on…
