Cyber Security
Information technology (IT) is a core part of the financial services industry in the United States, Europe and beyond, and this has become more so with the pandemic. When it first came about, many businesses shifted to working from home due to social distancing measures, putting pressure on the financial services industry to offer digital […]
2020 saw many of us transition from a traditional office environment to a remote working model, and the change seems to be here to stay. Although working from home (WFH) may be a welcomed change for many employees, it has provided employers with a landscape of security issues which need to be patched or circumvented to ensure […]
Remote working, or working from home (WFH), is the new normal whether we like it or not, with a recorded 47% of organisations stating they will continue a remote working model post-pandemic, and 82% giving employees the option to WFH at least one day a week. But while the switch has been welcomed by employees who are happy […]
One significant effect of the Covid-19 on global enterprise strategy was the spotlight on the key role of cybersecurity as a business enabler, putting cybersecurity leaders in direct involvement with business strategy and innovation. These changes have highlighted the importance of enterprise agility and more importantly resilience, over meticulous planning as a feature required to […]
1. It is an EU regulation as of 27 April 2016. Which gives EU citizens additional privacy and rights http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CELEX:32016R0679&from=EN 2. GDPR is legally enforceable from 25 My 2018 3. GDPR imposes higher fines – 4% annual global revenue or 20m euro, whichever is greater. Non-EU companies that process individual data will need to comply. […]
The basic objective of a cloud security strategy is to provide a method to monitor and protect the flow of information to and from cloud hosted services. There has been and will continue to be a shift towards public and private cloud services as the age of digitisation is increasingly being embraced by organisations. According […]
When was the last time you had a penetration test of your network or a vulnerability assessment? Penetration testing has traditionally been an annual event for most organisations. Of late we have seen vulnerability assessments delivered as a service with the ability to run tests on demand. Invariably vulnerability assessments are still run once a year oftentimes due to […]
Today’s reliance on IT technology is unparalleled and will only increase. While some businesses are pondering the benefits of IoT deployment or bespoke business applications, others are ploughing ahead and pioneering their initiatives. Some of these initiatives are stuttering and some are big winners that have transformed their business. Digitisation and it’s attendant benefits is the new game in town […]
The Carphone Warehouse breach is the biggest so far announced in the post GDPR era. What are the salient points to note from this breach? 6 million records accessed NCSC, ICO, FCA investigating 3 million records accessed in 2015 breach Cyber security risk identified by board in last FY report If GDPR applies, maximum fine […]
We all know the cyber security threats landscape is rapidly evolving and it is a real struggle to keep apace with the threats much less get ahead of them, which ideally is where we should be. Organisations especially those small to medium sized ones have limited resources in terms of people, money and time to […]