The newly re-elected Australian government has increased funding for cyber. With a plan to address the skills gap through education, scholarships and improved diversity. Develop the infrastructure for cyber warfare and cyber crime, increase support for businesses for incident reporting…
A common language between securing the company and securing the corporate balance sheet needs to be reached, if boards are going to be successful in managing the current and future critical risks like cyber, AI and Digital. Regulators talk about…
Not all threats are made equal. But cyber related risks surely have to take priority over other threats like EMP. The probability of a cyber attack is certainly higher than an EMP burst, and the cost to mitigate the risk…
We’re living in what some call the 4th industrial revolution, one based upon the consumption of data. From a personal perspective, mobile communications and the smart phone are central to that. Although I don’t know if I spend 5 hours…
Slack, the cloud based colaboration provider filed papers with the SEC. Warning that cyber attacks could impact the company. Ahead of its flotation. It’s the right step to take, warning investors that cyber is an issue for corporate stability. One…
With the massive gap between the number of skilled cyber resources needed and skilled resources available, some lateral thinking is needed to close it. The cyber security skills we need have cover many security domains, whichever standard you follow, NIST,…
Facebook isn’t having a good time with global data regulators at present. View Original Post
Reassuring. The government agencies need to work with the hacked entity, as they have to manage the message to the market. So its reassuring that the dialogue will take place. So that companies don’t shy away from getting the right…
For any organisation to have remote chance of managing cyber risk effectively, there has to be a focus on what it does and how it does it. It’s about people, process and systems. Processes drive corporate value and processes contain…
With the oil and gas industry being critical national infrastructure (CNI). It’s important that SCADA and lower level control systems are hardened to withstand cyber attacks, as the consequences of a successful cyber attack are just unthinkable. The oil and…
