Cyberattacks are rising sharply, but businesses are less prepared – and the cost is getting eye-watering
Article by Lucy Ingham – Verdict 23 April 2019 An exhaustive report of the state of cybersecurity among businesses has found that the number of companies reporting cyberattacks grew dramatically compared to the previous year – yet cyber-readiness has actually decreased over the same period. The Hiscox Cyber Readiness Report 2019, which covers businesses in the US, […]
Why Third-Party Risk Assessment must be an Ongoing Process
Article by Malcolm Taylor – InfoSecurity Magazine 22 April 2019 Whenever the business world embraces new technical innovations or working practices, it must brace for the inevitable wave of cyber-attacks as criminals adapt and find ways to exploit these strategies. With each successive development, it often takes organizations several years to adapt their security defenses […]
#Web30: Has the internet been a force for good?
Presented by Anna Delaney – TEISS 12 April 2019 March 12 2019 marked the 30 year anniversary of the World Wide Web and it was around this time that I met with former senior British Intelligence Officer and Head of Cyber Security at ITC, Malcolm Taylor. The serendipity of the occasion provided an opportune moment […]
Push meet Shove
If you were paying attention last week and used up some of your valuable time on so called ‘Good Friday’, you may recall that we talked about the SNAFU that is Facebook, stumbling from one privacy disaster to another, via facilitating election influence and fraud. In fact we were so bold as to suggest that […]
Hopping Madness
It looks like using third-party supplier connectivity to breach customers is very much back in the picture with the announcement that the technique is being actively used to attack a number of organisations, specifically those which themselves also have access to lots of third-party data, and more interestingly providers of eGift cards and schemes, i.e. […]
Out of the Ecuador
Cometh the hour, leaveth the man. As you will all have seen, it appears that Julian Assange’s time has come. As the Ecuadorian Ambassador to the United Kingdom decided to call time on his asylum, the long arm of the law was waiting and promptly felt his collar, and cuffs for that matter, dragging him […]
Tax Break
As you will all have realised from the seemingly endless blipverts coming out of the ISA punters, the accountants and if you are very unlucky Her Majesty’s Revenue And Customs, it is the end of the tax year this week in the UK. The end of any arbitrary period always presents opportunity for someone. The […]
ITC Secure unveils enhanced US based cyber advisory business
C5 Capital-backed ITC Secure launches new cyber services through Washington D.C. office London and Washington, 2nd April 2019: ITC Secure (ITC), the specialist cyber advisory and managed security service provider (MSSP) has launched a new portfolio of cyber security services through its existing Washington D.C. business. A key part of the expansion into the US […]