A prediction for 2020, buyer beware, the rise of increased scrutiny from the markets over cyber risk. Starting with credit rating agencies. View Original Post
It’s not like losing the plans for the house extension. But mis-placing such sensitive documents has to raise questions over how seriously the contractor took their own security. View Original Post
Maybe an unlikely impact of the cyber resource problem. If it is true and hedge funds did get access to a backup audio feed, giving them a few seconds heads up. Then there is a potential for the funds to…
This is a must read from the Wall Street Journal, () a Christmas present from COSO. For those of you who haven’t heard of COSO they are a standards setting body for Risk and Controls evaluation. They are influential in…
New Orleans has had a tough time over the past 15 years, hurricanes and flooding take their tole. Last Friday the city announced that it had a cyber attack, an example of another municipality in the US to announce that…
Its always been an issue for IT and security professionals. Can I identify all my IT assets? The ones I know I bought and those which someone else in the company bought, but may not have told anyone. For example…
It’s a great tongue twister. A bug bounty member finds holes in the platform used by companies to find holes in their own products. At the very least, the platform can say that it eats its own medicine. View Original…
Damned if you do, Damned if you don’t. A interesting and thought provoking read, relating to the US. So you’re a security consultancy, called into help a client sort out a ransomware issue. You may even be recommended and paid…
It’s a bit of a worry. A site where you go and buy your guns gets hacked to steal payment information. As a company which specializes in protection of the physical kind and one where the personal data of clients,…
A really good read, can cyber security be regulated to the benefit of all? Given the complex geographic, and geopolitical landscape and issues of national sovereignty? In my view unlike any other domain of security, cyber cuts across geographic, political…
