Here is a follow-up story to the recent Capita data breach. Capita admits cost of March breach will be up to £20M • The Register Capita is the UK’s largest outsourcing company with the UK armed forces, government and some very large companies as its clients. So the costs of …
When government ministers gets involved…
It has emerged, during a session of the Joint Committee on the National Security Strategy (JCNSS), that a government minister instructed Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council to keep secret the extent of a ransomware attack in January 2020. This pressure for secrecy caused problems for the council when it come …
Advice if you must use USB portable storage
Sometimes the easiest and best storage for your workflow, is a portable USB memory stick and the one thing that gives us a headache when we are carrying out a cyber security survey is the use of portable USB memory sticks! Do you want too why? Then hop over to …
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India, India, India…
I think it is a good thing that the Indian government is giving it’s full support to tightening up cyber security in the country. However it seems that their responses, which seem good on paper are not so when translated into the real world: Indian authorities issue conflicting advice about …
EU sets a new baseline for cyber security for critical services
This is an interesting development from the EU as a way to start to defend national infrastructure and critical services. EU lawmakers reach agreement on stronger cyber rules for critical sectors – The Record by Recorded Future We are not EU members, however as a CISO and cyber security expert, …
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