Cyber Security & Compliance

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WHAT IS YOUR BUSINESS SECURITY PROFILE, PREVENTION, DETECTION OR RISK MANAGEMENT?

WHAT IS YOUR BUSINESS SECURITY PROFILE, PREVENTION, DETECTION OR RISK MANAGEMENT? Each organisation has a different objective. Most cyber attacks succeed by taking advantage of common failures in their target’s systems. Whether new or not, known or unknown, attacks leverage security gaps. Gaps such as unpatched or uncharted vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, out-of-date systems, expired certificates, human […]

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Cyber Security & Compliance

UK SMBs REPORT CYBER BREACHES IMPACT BUSINESS

UK SMBs REPORT CYBER BREACHES IMPACT BUSINESS 20% of small businesses have had a cyber breach in the UK severe enough to impact their future.  Our impartial, trusted Tech experts demystify technology to help you innovate and make use of the latest trends to grow through the benefits of Digital Transformation, business process efficiency, innovation

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PRACTICAL SECURITY FOR SMBs

PRACTICAL SECURITY FOR SMBs Business Technology Leader CISOs know that cybersecurity is a delicate balancing act between ensuring security, functionality and cost efficiency. Strategic CISOs understand this and work with the CEO and board to minimise exposure.  Translating Industry security standards including NIST, ISO, SANS, COBIT, CERT, HIPAA as well as data privacy regulations, e.g.,

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WHAT IS A CISO?

WHAT IS A CISO? Security engineers focus is on identifying and fixing vulnerabilities others can’t see. A CISO from Business Technology Leaders translates the problems that security engineers find into solutions for C-suite, the CEO and the board in terms of business risks, profit and loss.  Business Technology Leaders take a very negative but essential

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WORKERS LOSING LAPTOPS ARE A BIGGER THREAT TO COMPANIES THAN HACKERS

WORKERS LOSING LAPTOPS ARE A BIGGER THREAT TO COMPANIES THAN HACKERS UK Businesses have been fined £26m after employees mislaid their work-issued laptops and phones.  Laptops lost by remote workers are a bigger financial threat to British industry than ransomware hackers. Over the last two years the Information Commissioner’s Office received more than 3,000 reports

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RANSOMWARE ATTACKS HAVE BEEN TRENDING UP FOR OVER 5 YEARS

RANSOMWARE ATTACKS HAVE BEEN TRENDING UP FOR OVER 5 YEARSMuch of the focus in cyber security is on ransomware, which in recent years has branched out to include ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) and increasingly data extortion. It also has the attention of Medium sized business who realise these attacks are indiscriminate and are not targeted solely at

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INCREASE CYBER SECURITY EXPERTISE IN YOUR BOARDROOM – BUILD BRIDGES

INCREASE CYBER SECURITY EXPERTISE IN YOUR BOARDROOM – BUILD BRIDGES Board members must have access to, and relationships with, cybersecurity experts within the organisation. While inviting CISOs to report to the board helps with identity, it doesn’t build strong connections between board members and security executives. Find ways to facilitate this relationship. Organisations benefit from

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INCREASE CYBER SECURITY EXPERTISE IN YOUR BOARDROOM – BOARD AGENDA ITEM

INCREASE CYBER SECURITY EXPERTISE IN YOUR BOARDROOM – BOARD AGENDA ITEM  Keep cyber resiliency on the board’s agenda and in discussions with management. For boards cybersecurity is not a “one and done” type of decision; it’s a continuously changing and moving target.  The more often the board is exposed to the cyber-situation of their organisation,

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INCREASE CYBER SECURITY EXPERTISE IN YOUR BOARDROOM – COMMON LANGUAGE

INCREASE CYBER SECURITY EXPERTISE IN YOUR BOARDROOM – COMMON LANGUAGE Develop a common language for discussing the complex issues of cyber risk and resilience. Boards want to simplify confusing, technical discussions loaded with nuanced security terms. It’s not that these are unimportant, it’s just not as effective for the board as an economic analysis that

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