Melanie Watson Archive

From 25 May 2018, the EU GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) will affect every organisation that processes the personal information of EU residents. Tens of thousands of organisations around the world are facing a major upheaval in the way they …

In any effective and meaningful information security regime, data protection needs to be embedded throughout the whole organisation. To do this, senior management needs to drive the message from the top down and ensure that everyone – from managers to …

We’re not going to lie: documenting your compliance with the GDPR may be one of the most manually intensive parts of meeting the requirements of the GDPR. Since there’s little information about it freely available online, we thought we’d pull …

IBM researchers have seen the ‘Tiny banker’ malware – also known as Tinba – target several European banks in the last month, including banks in Poland, Italy, the Netherlands and Germany.

A few years ago, a cyber attack via the IoT was something that only Jack Bauer in 24 could have dreamed up, but we’re starting to notice increasing numbers of cyber attacks affecting more than computers.

The online edition of Le Soir – Belgium’s biggest French-speaking newspaper – was offline for a number of hours after Belgian media group Rossel was targeted in a cyber attack. “‘Le Soir’ is regularly attacked by hackers,” said newspaper director, …

83% of us recognise cyber crime as one of the three biggest threats facing their organisation (ISACA Survey, 2015). But when you come to the crux of cyber crime, how should businesses solve the real-world problems they face on a …