Delivering a successful of M&A deal has always been difficult. There are many stats which discuss deal success and the delivery of shareholder value, figures range between 50 – 80% of deals failing to deliver improvements in shareholder value. ().…
The relaxation of the rules for the sale of cyber weapons by the Isrealie government should be a cause for concern. The country is one of the top developers of cyber tech, with reports it has rightly been choosy over…
US boards are strengthening their cyber security expertise in response to a rapidly changing regulatory landscape. For example the proposed US Congress bill S.592 aims to legislate publicly listed companies to have cyber expertise at the board table. To address…
Once bitten, twice shy, third time get insurance. The attack on Baltimore was one of the most extensive hacks on a US municipality. I wonder how your premiums are affected when you buy cyber insurance if you are hacked twice.…
The Australian Prudential Regulator Authority has placed cyber security and resilience as one of its top 4 priority areas in the latest release of its Financial Stability strategy for 2019 – 2023. This comes after it released its Prudential standard…
Cyberspace is a domain in which NATO will operate to defend itself along side tradition physical domains. A serious cyber attack could trigger Article 5 of the NATO founding treaty, where an attack on one NATO member could be treated…
Is it now time to sit down and write a proposal for cyber security metrics? The number of high profile events over the past 10 years, the talk of a market correction across the insurance and capital markets, the issues…
Cyber DD should quite rightly be part of any M&A process, Yahoo and Marriott are 2 good example of why. Cyber DD should also form part of the loans evaluation process, used to assess the credit risk of clients. As…
There will come a time when AI will be used to manage cyber security. It will be able to remove much of the labour intensive and complex oversight, the intricate assessment of threats and manage impacts. The challenge we face…
Cyber security or information security, it’s the question which continues to circulate, one no one has managed to bottom out. The US Army’s cyber command will re-brand itself as the ‘Army Information Warfare Command’. Whilst it’s not earth shattering news,…
