There are few instances of workplace jargon that crop-up in both the business leader’s and information technologist’s lexicons; ROI – return on investment – is one such. But the fact that it carries different shades of meaning for its respective usage often proves unhelpful when it comes to establishing common terms of reference inside a digitally-transformed organisation.
Regulatory compliance is not a brand-new topic, nor indeed is it a new challenge, for businesses. It’s a necessary governance overhead that organisations of all sizes have grappled with for some time, particularly those in highly-regulated sectors, such as insurance and financial services. However, the rise in importance of cyber security assurance has for organisations […]
As cyber security rises in the hierarchy of governance priorities, senior executives, as a team, will engage in deeper discussions with their organisation’s technology specialists and technology partners. Clear and effective communication is vital to ensuring that strategies are clearly articulated and understood by all stakeholders.
The aftermath of the cyber attack on British Airways’ data systems provides a textbook example of why Europe’s senior management must apply more attention to their organisations’ IT security provisions – and gain better understanding of the cyber threats they now face.
A means by which to calculate the economic impact caused by cyber crime at organisational and GNP levels has gained in importance as business leaders gain greater knowledge of how digital adversaries sap their capacity to operate profitably. Cyber crime’s damaging effect on national finances is also raising alarm in governmental circles.
The UK National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has published new guidance for corporate leaders to equip them with the basic technological details needed to understand the cyber threats they face, and to direct their organisation’s response to them more effectively. The suite of guidance sets-out out five questions that boards should now ask about their […]
it-sa 2018 Special Keynote Speaker Paula Januszkiewicz is Founder and CEO at CQURE and CQURE Academy. Paula is also the Enterprise Security MVP, Microsoft Regional Director, and also a globally-acknowledged cyber security expert. Polish national Paula is widely acknowledged as one of the world’s most high-profile international IT security experts. In advance of her Special […]
Fingerprint sensor technology specialist NEXT Biometrics and authentication solutions distributor MTRIX will showcase NEXT’s advanced biometric software development platform at it-sa 2018. The NEXT One Touch Power Software Development Kit (SDK) works with a broad range of platforms and tools for developing authentication systems and is already generating positive reactions from industry partners. MTRIX is […]
On 12 September 2018 the European Commission (EC) proposed the creation of a new European cyber security industrial technology and research competence centre, plus a cyber security competence centre network. The proposal for a new Regulation to pool cyber resources was announced as part of the annual State of the EU address presented by EC President Jean-Claude Juncker.
When cyber attacks succeed, they can also impact the careers of individuals at the companies breached. A report from Kaspersky Lab and B2B International – ‘From Data Boom to Data Doom’ – says that 31% of data breaches in the past year have led to employees losing their jobs.
Secure file transfer and network management software vendor Ipswitch is exhibiting the latest versions of its MOVEit secure file transfer and WhatsUp Gold network monitoring at it-sa 2018 this week.
Ransomware attacks on organisations have grown significantly over the last 12 months, according to Verizon’s 2018 Data Breach Investigations Report being presented at it-sa 2018 this week. Employees are falling victim to social attacks, such as financial pretexting and phishing, which represent 98% of social incidents and 93% of all breaches analysed by the report. […]
