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 [...]
My train of thought crime
I have just moved home, out of London for the first time in years. I am on my first journey back – an hour and forty on what is, technically, the fastest train in the UK. Wait, that is actually [...]
To the fullest extent possible
Last month my car was stolen and I have, out of necessity, been talking far too much to my insurance company, its agents, a recovery company, the Met, an unidentifiable intermediary of some kind [...]
Cyber Incident Response – Boardroom Planning is key
Reacting immediately to a cyber event could save your reputation. 2019 is on track to be the worst year so far for data breaches, with billions of records exposed in the first six months. As a [...]
Cyber Security – A special alliance leading the fight against cyber threat.
Last month the United States and United Kingdom commemorated the 75th anniversary of D-Day, a pivotal historical moment in which the two countries set an unprecedented standard of bilateral [...]
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 [...]
NCSC: Supply chain security guidance
Proposing a series of 12 principles, designed to help you establish effective control and oversight of your supply chain. Introduction The guidance will provide organisations with an improved [...]
Leadership: Glenn Fitton, CISO as a Service
In this article Glenn Fitton, ITC Senior Cyber Consultant and CISO, explores the influence of leadership, why there is no “silver-bullet” for information security and the simple [...]
Five recommendations from the NCSC
At the CBI conference in September 2018 the CEO of GCHQ’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), Ciaran Martin, delivered The Board Guidance Tool Kit. Here is a summary of his five [...]
