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
A recent report written by Enterprise Strategy Group (and commissioned by Intel Security), reveals slow responses to cyber-attacks from UK enterprises are leaving companies vulnerable to targeted online crime. This research is one of the latest attempts to persuade IT users to check their defences against cyber-threats and equally importantly to make some investments into dealing with
There was new research from the Home Office led Cyber Streetwise programme last week. The latest poll shows that only 16% of small businesses in the UK said that improving their cyber-security was a “top priority” for 2015. 66% of businesses “don’t consider their businesses to be vulnerable” and more than three-quarters don’t understand the
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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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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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