How to Stay One Step Ahead of Ransomware in 2022
In his previous blog, ITC’s Cyber Advisor, Neil Lappage, discussed how the capabilities of ransomware actors and the complexity of attacks are evolving faster than an organisation’s ability to prevent them. Ransomware continues to be amongst the fastest-growing cyber attack strategies faced by businesses today. Bad actors are also making attacks more complex, costly, challenging […]
The Evolving Threat of Ransomware
Ransomware surged during the COVID-19 pandemic to become one of the biggest threats facing businesses. This was echoed by the World Economic Forum’s recent risk survey that reported cyber security as second to climate change as factors that will shape the next decade, with the pandemic coming third place. Although the shift to remote and […]
Four cyber security trends to watch
The COVID-19 pandemic has in many ways unleashed a new set of complexities and accelerated existing challenges for organisations globally. In this blog, I explore four cyber security trends leaders should bear in mind when managing cyber risk. Expanding cyber attack surfaces and the new security perimeter As we have all witnessed, the pandemic has […]
LESSONS FROM THE SOLARWINDS AND HAFNIUM BREACHES: PART ONE
In recent months, two of the most sophisticated and severe state-sponsored cyber attacks – SolarWinds and the Hafnium hack on Microsoft Exchange Servers – saw not only 18,000+ and 30,000+ companies and government organisations affected each, but also unintended victims within each respective supply chain. Both ‘zero day’ exploits afforded attackers a lengthy period of […]
RESILIENCE WILL BE THE WORD OF 2021
It’s what allows us not just to bounce back, but to bounce forward. 2020 was a year that saw many profound events, so much so that for the first time in history, Oxford Languages expanded its well-known Word of the Year to encompass 47 “Words of an Unprecedented Year”. The 38-page report includes Covid-19 and all its related […]
Post-Webinar Summary: Why Collaborate?
At the beginning of the year, we announced at our annual Cyber Summit our vision and theme for 2020: Collaboration. At ITC, we believe that we defend better when we defend together. Halfway through the year and in the midst of a global pandemic, who knew that word would become so prevalent. Last week, on […]
GDPR: 2 years on – “I’ve updated my privacy policy; I must be compliant.”
May 2018 saw one of the biggest changes in data protection history across Europe, and the rest of the world; the General Data Protection Regulation, more commonly known as the GDPR. Just like cyber security, data protection has now found itself a place on the agenda in the majority of boardrooms as requirements have led […]
Collaboration Growing Pains
I’m going to resist using words like “unprecedented” and phrases like “the new normal” as much as possible, but we really can’t ignore that things have changed quickly in the last few weeks. Not so much people working from home – that’s been a feature of many of our (admittedly privileged IT worker) lives for […]
Hindsight is always 2020
I don’t think I am alone in the conviction that time is accelerating and each year is shorter than the last. In my mind Y2K is thankfully behind us but not by very much, and I still have the remnants of the millennium bug bonus I earned (ahem) to spend. We are actually less than […]
Can we manage the Huawei threat?
The Huawei story rumbles on, fuelled to a great degree by the leak from the National Security Council (NSC) and the subsequent sacking of Gavin Williamson, the Secretary of State for Defence. In the minutes after the news broke, and again after Williamson’s sacking, I was approached by both the BBC and Sky News for […]