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When Dido Harding, the CEO of TalkTalk, recently announced there was a chance that all their four million customers’ personal data might have been compromised, she could not have imagined the tsunami of press and media coverage that resulted. It all happened so quickly – 48 ...

A recent poll of City of London bosses by the Financial Times called on companies to hire a “younger generation of boardroom directors to head off the systemic threat that cyber risk poses to the financial system”.¹ I welcome business leaders openly discussing the signi...

Is now a good time to get a job and develop a career in cyber security? As reported in Continuity, Insurance and Risk magazine , the Annual Allianz Risk Barometer shows that “businesses are less concerned about the impact of traditional industrial risks such as natural cat...

Is your organization ready for the biggest shake-up of data protection laws in 20 years? The European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation will take effect from this year with the aim of giving EU citizens greater control of what happens to their data and containing t...

Different people respond differently to a variety of types and styles of cyber awareness training. With people being the crucial early warning system in a company’s defences against cyber-attack, Ian Davies considers why boards need to understand that a one-size-fits-all ap...

PRINCE2 training, as with any new learning experience, yields a lot of new information for Project Managers to learn, and breaking that information down into smaller chunks can make understanding it a lot easier. So, with the textbook in mind, here are some of the most co...

What does cyber resilience mean to company directors and why should they care? The recent, high-profile incident involving Sony Pictures’ IT systems being hacked provides a comprehensive answer in itself. A company the size and sophistication of Sony should be able to defe...

We’re used to seeing headlines like those we woke up to on 13 May 2017. ‘Huge ransomware attack hits hospitals’. ‘Unprecedented global ransomware attack’. ‘Global cyber-crime hits a new high’. TV and media reporting has continued the hyperbole since the news was first reporte...