by Inga Nikolajeva | Aug 19, 2019 | Article, Business Continuity & ISO 22301, Events, Incident Response, Managing Risk, News, Prepare, Protect, Respond, Threat & Vulnerability Management
On Friday 9thAugust 2019, it went dark across many parts of the UK. Train networks stopped and communters were facing an inability to get home due to hours of cancellations, described by Bloomberg as a ‘once-in-a-decade blackout’. The cause? A seemingly unlikely event... 
by Inga Nikolajeva | Aug 8, 2019 | Article, Assure, Cloud Security, Information Security & ISO 27001, Managing Risk, Prepare
In July 2018, The Law Society and the National Cyber Security Centre released a joint report outlining the threats to the legal sector. The report confirmed what most of us working in the sector knew – that the industry has a low level of cyber maturity meaning that... 
by Louise Barker | Jan 31, 2019 | Article, Business Continuity & ISO 22301, Prepare, Protect
As the short days get colder, one threat to UK businesses gets greater. One of few weather’s in the UK that can bring businesses, schools, roads and transport to a standstill. The white, snowflakes that bring joy to children’s faces and terror to business owners.... 
by admin | Oct 24, 2018 | Prepare
How to manage Cyber Risk In the current climate, the need for a clear understanding of the business risks as well as the tools and techniques available to deal with them is fundamental. The velocity of change and the magnitude of the problem is not always fully... 
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,...