Posts categorized: Guest Blog
22 July 2021 / Guest Blog / Oscar O'Connor
A New Approach for a Changing World? The hardships and privations of 15 months (and counting) of pandemic lockdown in many developed countries has forced leaders in government, politics, industry, manufactures and commerce to adopt unfamiliar and, in s… Read more »
15 July 2021 / Guest Blog / Oscar O'Connor
The Project Manager’s Dilemma and other Triangles When I started out in project management, my first mentor taught me about the mislabelled “Project Manager’s Dilemma”. He used to summarise it as being able to deliver a project or product quickly, chea… Read more »
22 April 2021 / Guest Blog / Arcus Global
Breaches of cyber security are a significant risk to every business and individual, but are increasingly affecting local government. Recovering from the February 2020 ransomware attack that reduced Redcar & Cleveland Council to using pen and paper… Read more »
13 September 2018 / Guest Blog, Leadership Development / Natasha McCabe
Dealing with the tactical aspects of the function during your first weeks in the job doesn’t have to be detrimental to the success of a longer-term transformative agenda Much has been written about the Chief Information Security Officer and how to best… Read more »
30 August 2018 / Guest Blog / Laura Peytavin
As long as intentionality remains an exclusively human trait of which AI is deprived on the global scale, the human factor will remain cybersecurity’s weakest link. Artificial Intelligence is helping both attackers and their targets – shifting the natu… Read more »
6 March 2018 / Guest Blog / Rupert Brown
Welcome to the final part of my series of articles that have been looking at the challenges that GDPR poses and what can be done to mitigate them. At the time of writing (Mid March 2017) we need to recognise that a) No major organisation is GDPR compli… Read more »
20 February 2018 / Guest Blog / Rupert Brown
Welcome to the penultimate part of this series of articles which will look at a few corner cases and left over thoughts before I wrap up with a summary next time. Let’s start with a tale from the first job I had after I graduated which was building hot… Read more »
6 February 2018 / Guest Blog / Rupert Brown
Two events this week have crystallised my thoughts for this part of the GDPR blog. < Note: This article was first published on Linkedin Pulse on 1st March 2017 and can be found here> Firstly I visited a RegTech conference and was buttonholed in t… Read more »
23 January 2018 / Guest Blog / Rupert Brown
Welcome to Part 5 of this journey through some of the technical and engineering challenges that companies must address in order to satisfy GDPR requirements. In the previous parts of this series the key notions of comprehensive and coherent identity +… Read more »
9 January 2018 / Guest Blog / Rupert Brown
In the previous article in this series, I looked at the roles of Controller and Processor and the core issue of who is responsible for managing the range of identities and functions within an organisation vs who manages the technical mechanisms that au… Read more »