Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
I have written about this before – write your plans down because when you and your support teams are under stress, during an incident, a well structured plan can be followed and if required adapted, to guide everyone through. Now the National Cyber Security Centre is telling all organisation to …
Marks & Spencer and the Co-op have made cyber security headlines over the past months with the attacks on their infrastructure: Marks & Spencer Cyber Attack UK Retail Cyber-attacks Phishing Attacks But the attack is not the whole story when it comes to an organisation dealing with an incident – …
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Yesterday I wrote about the continuing malicious development of ransomware as part of my Wednesday Bit series: Ransomware the Next Steps (pt.1) As you can see that was part 1, I will be continuing the article next week looking at the changing landscape of ransomware. But for now let me …
This is not a political story but a cyber security story. Last year it was revealed that the UK’s Electoral Commission – a body charged with maintaining, credibility and openness in the UK’s voting system – had been hacked, about 10 months prior to them making a statement about it. …
Continue reading “Just when you thought the election was behind us!”
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 …
