by Sally Morgan | Jul 5, 2018 | Article, Assure, Cyber Essentials, Detect, Information Security & ISO 27001, Managing Risk, NIST, PCI DSS, Prepare, Protect
Cyber security is a topic on every organisation’s radar. The continued threat of ever evolving cyber-attacks, combined with the introduction of GDPR compliance means that there are serious businesses implications to successful attacks and the loss of data to any... 
by Sally Urwin | Nov 20, 2017 | Article, Assure, GDPR Compliance, Prepare
A whitepaper by CenturyLink Emea has just reported that only 25% of legal sector IT decision-makers said their firms were GDPR ready, despite one in five having experienced an attempted cyber-attack in the past month. Why is there so much apathy surrounding the GDPR,... 
by Tim Holman | Jun 12, 2017 | Article, Assure, Detect, Managing Risk, Prepare, Protect, Respond, Virtual CISO
Imagine that a business wanted to outsource a particular business function, but no one on the Board of Directors had sufficient tech expertise to grasp why this might cause security issues.Investing in an upgraded network with a centralised administrator responsible... 
by Tim Holman | Mar 21, 2017 | Article, Assure, Detect, Protect
On March 7th, WikiLeaks published a catalogue of documents containing details of secret hacking tools used by the CIA. They called this information “Vault 7” and have promised the leak is just a small part of a much bigger cache of data, which they will release... by Tim Holman | Feb 25, 2017 | Article, Assure, Business Continuity & ISO 22301, Managing Risk
Resilience is a buzz word in board rooms in the UK at the moment; but for a VERY good reason. Control Risks, the heavyweight global business risk consultancy, recently published a survey on the “The State of Enterprise Resilience” for 2016-17. [The State of Enterprise... 
by admin | Oct 17, 2010 | Assure
HOW DO I ASSURE MY BUSINESS? It is important for any business to carry out a systematic evaluation of its security for its own peace of mind. To do this, it is essential to assess how well it measures against a set of recognised criteria. A cyber security audit can be...