10 September 2015 / Strategy and Governance / JC Gaillard
The current cyber security situation in many large organisations is dominated by significant blockers. Cybersecurity is still broadly perceived as an IT discipline, built around technical solutions and projects – you only have to open any industry maga… Read more »
3 September 2015 / Leadership Development, Strategy and Governance / JC Gaillard
This article is a summary of the series “The CIO Guide to a successful Information Security Practice – 8 Key Management pitfalls to avoid” published on our blog in May and June 2015. The series deconstructs eight commonly held views on Information Secu… Read more »
1 September 2015 / Guest Blog / François Gratiolet
Handling an information security (InfoSec) budget is not an easy task. Most InfoSec departments operate under very tight budget constraints. The challenge is to find the right balance between overspending and underspending. Budgeting for InfoSec is a h… Read more »
27 August 2015 / Strategy and Governance / Neil Cordell
Given the vast number of IoT devices, a staggering volume of data is continuously being generated – and this is increasing exponentially. Until the advent of BigData, it was extremely complex, expensive and time consuming to analyse data from different… Read more »
20 August 2015 / Strategy and Governance / Neil Cordell
What is the Internet of Things? Essentially, more and more devices are being connected to the Internet and are collecting data. Like many technology hypes, IoT is not really new – and there are many existing control systems which have been reliant on a… Read more »
13 August 2015 / Strategy and Governance / JC Gaillard
The Board of Directors must ensure that a long-term Cyber Security roadmap is in place – and stick to it.
6 August 2015 / Strategy and Governance / JC Gaillard
Over recent years, the GRC (Governance, Risk and Compliance) acronym has become very common in the Information Security community.
4 August 2015 / Architecture and Design, Guest Blog / Meint Post
Can you imagine that only 5 years ago the first iPad was launched? It’s mind boggling thinking that my children are using technology that used to be part of science fiction literature. They haven’t known anything else and to them there is no novelty. O… Read more »
30 July 2015 / Strategy and Governance / Neil Cordell
The current situation regarding Cyber Risk Insurance In March 2015, Marsh published a report titled “UK Cyber Security – The Role of Insurance in Managing and Mitigating the Risk” in conjunction with HM Government. It reveals a number of interesting st… Read more »
28 July 2015 / Neil's Column / Neil Cordell
A recent article by IT Governance highlighted that 31% of UK local authorities still using unsupported Windows XP which on the surface appears to be of great concern. Windows XP was released nearly 14 years ago in October 2001 – in April 2009, Microsof… Read more »