I have helped organisations prepare for the worse with incident response and business continuity plans. I have however never suggested that post incident they should forcibly change their terms and conditions to avoid being sued! Following a breach that has exposed the data nearly seven million users, 23andMe is doing …
Let’s finish the week with ransomware
Do you have a ransomware plan? If not here is a thought… I am sure the world’s largest commercial bank had/has a ransomware, incident response and business continuity plan – and they need it: World’s largest commercial bank ICBC confirms ransomware attack (bleepingcomputer.com) I am also sure they had plenty …
Denial of Service attacks
Denial of Service attacks (DoS) or Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks are not something many of our clients have to worry about directly. However our clients are often impacted when services they rely on come under attack. OpenAI confirms DDoS attacks behind ongoing ChatGPT outages (bleepingcomputer.com) This attack probably …
Patches and Updates. When they go wrong…
I am always pushing the necessity of keeping up with patches and updates – they are everyone’s essential step for good cyber security. However here is the warning tale for when things go wrong at the vendor end: HP rushes to fix bricked printers after faulty firmware update (bleepingcomputer.com) When …
Backups vulnerable
Backups of all your important information and systems, resilient to attack, is an essential part of any incident response and business continuity plan. So anything that could impact that back-up must be a priority to solve. So if you use Veeam back-up you need a conversation: Hackers target vulnerable Veeam …
Business Continuity Planning
Following the pandemic, I thought everyone would have a written business continuity plan. Of course, I was proven wrong! Do You have a plan for the unexpected? Are you a business owner? If so, this is for you as having a business continuity plan is super important for a few …
Business continuity – Cyber breaches take time to fix
Why is a business continuity plan a good idea? Here’s why -the Acro Criminal Records Office is still facing disruption following the cyber security breach last month. Criminal Records Service still disrupted 4 weeks after hack – BBC News Your takeaway from this is that a well funded government resource …
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