Business Continuity Archive
Organisations and regulators don’t often agree on how businesses should be run, but lately both have championed the adoption of business continuity. It’s a practice that helps organisations prepare for disruptive incidents and ensure that they respond swiftly in case the …
Performing an internal penetration test can help safeguard your organisation and its network. Discover the pros and cons of conducting penetration tests.
BCM (business continuity management) describes the process of planning for disruptive incidents. Organisations do this by identifying potential threats and analysing their impact on day-to-day operations. Effective BCM ensures that organisations can provide an acceptable service in the event of a disaster, …
There’s a common joke in cyber security circles that goes: “There’s no such thing as the Cloud, just somebody else’s computer”. Although it’s not entirely accurate, it gets to the heart of many people’s misunderstanding of the Cloud, which they …
Business continuity is essential to any organisation’s cyber security practices, and those adopting its principles should follow the requirements of ISO 22301, the international standard that describes best practice for a BCMS (business continuity management system). The 2021 Horizon Scan Report found that …
Organisations faced two-and-a-half times as many DDoS (distributed denial-of-service) attacks in the first half of 2020 as they did in the same period last year, according to a Neustar report. The increase is linked to the rise in Internet traffic …
With data breaches on the rise and affecting Irish organisations of all sizes, it may be time you took the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) seriously and began to implement a compliance plan. Could your organisation report a breach to the DPC (Data Protection Commissioner) within the required 72 hours?
Until recently, there were no signs that anybody was particularly bothered by these lax practices. However, the introduction of the EU GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) has changed that. The Regulation sets clear rules on age restrictions, and the punishment …
On Tuesday, 25 September, Facebook discovered a major data breach that gave criminal hackers the ability to take over user accounts.
50 million Facebook users worldwide may be impacted by the breach, including about 5 million European accounts.
The Irish DPC (Data …
Facebook’s Vice President of Product Management, Guy Rosen, announced that the security breach affected 50 million users. It is believed the attackers exploited a vulnerability in Facebook's code involving the "View As" feature, which allows people to see what their own …
