Sophie Meunier Archive

There’s a reason that phishing attacks are so successful. Millions of malicious messages are sent every day, vast numbers pass through spam filters and at first glance many of them appear genuine. Verizon’s 2018 Data Breach Investigations Report found that …

At IT Governance Europe, we believe that an ISO 27001 qualification is something that every cyber security professional should have. As such, we’ve made our ISO 27001 courses available in classrooms, online and in-house. These courses have been designed to …

The GDPR’s strict requirements for protecting personal data have been widely publicised – as has the power it gives to supervisory authorities to levy large fines against non-compliant organisations. However, we understand that implementing its requirements has been tough; you …

Documenting your GDPR compliance can be tough, but a little guidance and access to documentation templates can make things much easier.

Everyone is a potential victim, and sometimes you can have all the right defences in place and still be breached. But if you accept the inevitable, there’s a lot you can do to mitigate the damage. In the past few …

If you look someone up on Facebook or LinkedIn, you’ll be able to gather huge amounts of information about them without them ever knowing. Until recently, nobody seemed to think about the risks involved; it was just the way things …

The Directive on security of network and information systems (NIS Directive) aims to achieve a high common level of network and information systems security across the EU. The Directive applies to two groups. The first, operators of essential services (OES), …