Cyber Essentials

Supplier Due Diligence – do your existing suppliers take security seriously?

Supplier Due Diligence – do your existing suppliers take security seriously? As businesses become more reliant upon their suppliers within the digital age, it is essential that these relationships are reviewed and monitored to ensure security is being addressed and improved. Companies conducting new business will usually put their new suppliers through a vigorous due

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Achieving CREST Cyber Essentials

What is Cyber Essentials The Cyber Essentials scheme helps organisations protect themselves against common online threats and demonstrate commitment to cyber security. This isn’t just for technology companies. It is for any sector and any organisation that wants to better protect its business. CREST is an approved Accreditation Body under the UK Government Cyber Essentials scheme. This scheme

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Cyber threat to UK legal sector 2018 report

Last week the UK Government and The Law Society released a joint assessment of cyber threats to the uk legal sector. The report was created following a request from the legal sector to government. It forms part of the National Cyber Security Centre’s (NCSC) mission to raise the cyber maturity and resilience of organisations in

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How do I make sure my business is cyber protected?

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 company. It is not the case of if you are going to be attacked, but

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#Infosec15 – Dr Emma Philpott talks to 2-sec about the Cyber Security Challenges facing SMEs.

Dr Emma Philpott met up with 2-sec CEO Tim Holman at the recent Infosec Expo at Olympia in London. Emma is CEO of the IASME Consortium as well as Founder and Manager of the UK Cyber Security Forum. Emma spoke to Tim about IASME (the information assurance management standard for small companies) as well as

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The Growth of Cyber Insurance – can your business survive without it?

There was an interesting bit of research reported recently by the SC UK Magazine. The independent Corporate Executive Programme (CEP) has recently carried out a study into US/UK companies and their attitudes towards cyber-insurance. The results are really thought-provoking. A quarter of all total respondents said that their company had had a “business impacting” cyber

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Cyber Security: In Your Defence

Cyber security breaches don’t just happen to big banks and international corporations – small accountancy firms can be targets too. Tim Holman was asked about what you can do to protect your networks. As Ford Prefect says in Douglas Adams’s The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy: “It’s a tough universe. There’s all sorts of people

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How to make Cyber Essentials work for SME security by Tim Holman – Computer Weekly.com

Good security does not have to be an enterprise roll-out of ISO 27001 or considerable investment in security products, and there are good measures any company can take, even those struggling with a limited budget. With the advent of Cyber Essentials, there is no excuse for a business not to adhere to good practice, and

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