Luke Irwin Archive
It shouldn’t come as a surprise that 2019 has continued a growing upwards trend of cyber crime, but Bitdefender has revealed just how extensive the threat is. Its Mid-Year Threat Landscape Report 2019 revealed that 24% of organisations suffered a breach in the first half of the …
All organisations are looking to gain a competitive advantage.The answer can be found in ISO 50001 and EnMS (energy management system).
Organisations that use a CRM (customer relationship management) system will have plenty of experience handling large volumes of personal data, which can be both a good and bad thing when it comes to the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation).
The numbers don’t tell the full story this month. There may have been 1.34 billion breached records disclosed, but almost all of them came from a single incident of ambiguous origin.
Likewise, there were an abnormally high number of incidents in which the organisation didn’t reveal the number of …
The key to a successful cyber security strategy is preparation. If you have a plan for how to manage data breaches and other disruptions, you can get to work on remediation immediately. And what’s more, everyone in your organisation knows their roles. There’ll be no …
Software solutions are the simplest way for organisations to address many of their cyber security threats. All you need to do is pick out and purchase the right tools and away you go. Unlike the other aspects of the cyber security triad – processes and people – there’s often no need to carefully curate solutions that …
ISO 27701 fills a gap left by the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation), which contains strict rules about privacy management but doesn’t advise organisations on how to meet them.
A recent report found that Microsoft was the most commonly impersonated brand in phishing scams, with 20,217 URLs associated in the past quarter.
“How can we avoid cyber attacks?” That’s the question every organisation is asking as the threat of cyber crime continues to spiral. It’s easy to point to solutions like anti-malware software or encrypting sensitive information, but as we explain in this blog, things are rarely that simple. That’s because threats …
Do your employees complain about having to take information security training courses? Are they still practising poor data protection practices? If so, you have a poor cyber security culture and are liable to suffer a data breach sooner rather than later. Lax practices in …
