Cyber Attack on the British Library.
At the moment a spokes person for the British Library is reporting this as a “cyber incident” that took place over the weekend. The authorities, including the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) are investigating. There are no details at the moment as to whether any information has been compromised.
British Library knocked offline by weekend cyberattack (bleepingcomputer.com)
The outage is widespread impacting many services, websites and even phones. This illustrates how interconnected IT systems are at most organisations, large or small. If one element of your systems goes down the impact knocks onto others – that is why you need an incident response plan, to keep your organisation functioning through an incident.
Here is one more thing to think about before you decide not to contact us about helping you create an incident response plan – the plan works for not only cyber incidents but floods, snow, equipment failure, etc., etc. etc..
South East: Travel disruption as region braces for storm – BBC News
Home Office / Small Business Hurricane Prep – SANS Internet Storm Center
These plans do not need to be complex. Ours runs to some (encrypted) spreadsheets and Word Files all of which can be comfortably printed out in a couple of minutes, an encrypted OneNote notebook and some spare bits of offline kit.
Interested?
Clive Catton MSc (Cyber Security) – by-line and other articles
