Well worth a read. For cyber risk management to be successful it must be assessed as far down the organisations architecture as possible. Accounting for the impact of cyber attacks on critical business processes, assets and data critical to business…
My son Ethan and his disabled brother Alex raised £25,000 for EACH to repair their hydrotherapy pool. EACH provide an indispensable service for children at the end of their short lives. View Original Post
The lock down has created many challenges for us all, but it will create opportunities for #Cyber as we move onwards and out of it. We will be hosting a lively debate on the cyber challenges of lock down, lessons…
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…
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
Hacktivists are targeting Minnesota state municipal services. A relatively low cost and low risk way to make a statement with maximum impact (for the attacker). Cyber is not just a geopolitical tool, used when political tensions rise. It’s being used…
US Nuclear contractor Westech International a supplier to the US DoD and Energy sector, a subcontractor to Northrup Grumman; providing support to the US Minuteman III ICBM nuclear deterrent. Has confirmed that it has suffered from a cyber attack by…
