The WEF Global Risks Report 2024: Key Takeaways
IT and business leaders should be well aware by now of the risks that cyber-related threats pose to the organisation. They also understand at a hig...
Author: Phil Muncaster
What Businesses Can Learn From 23andMe’s Breach Response
Every business and IT leader dreads the day they’re forced to respond to a serious data breach. Those unfortunate to experience such an incident sh...
Get Ready for a New UK Datacentre Security Regulation
The UK’s economy is increasingly digital-centric. According to the government, data contributed nearly 7% to GDP in 2022, and three-quarters of all...
What Does the Australian Cyber Security Strategy Mean for Your Business?
The Australian government is not short of ambition. On launching its new Cyber Security Strategy 2023-2030 in November, it claimed the document wou...
Are You Ready for the UK’s New IoT Security Act?
The UK market for connected technologies has been flooded with insecure kits for years. That’s bad news for consumers and businesses, as compromise...
How an ISMS Can Help Developers Follow the NCSC’s New Secure AI Guidelines
The EU is undoubtedly the current global leader when it comes to AI regulation. However flawed its new AI Act may be, it represents a significant a...
The 10 Biggest Compliance Moments Of 2023: Our Pick Of A Landmark Year
There’s been plenty to keep UK cybersecurity and compliance professionals busy over the past 12 months. From long-awaited industry regulation...
A Year in Compliance: Five Lessons Learned from 2023
Security and compliance leaders ended 2023 as they began it, overwhelmed with the volume and complexity of new rules and regulations. Some will app...
Mind the Gap: Closing the Yawning Chasm Between Executive Thoughts and Deeds
Humans don’t always say what they mean. And even if they do, their actions don’t always tally with what they say. This is particularly a problem fo...
Watch, Wait and Pray: The Potential Impact of Updates to the Investigatory Powers Act
When it comes to technology regulation, the British government seems to be lurching from one controversy to another. Fresh from a battle with Big T...
The Cyber-Mercenaries Are Coming: It’s Time To Protect Your Execs From Prying Eyes
Back in mid-September, US government security agency CISA ordered all federal agencies to patch two zero-day vulnerabilities in OS, iPadOS and macO...
Why It’s Time to Unlock the Benefits of the UK-US Data Bridge
In late September, the UK government announced a new adequacy agreement with the US designed to enable more seamless cross-border data flows. In th...
NIST’s Cybersecurity Framework 2.0: What’s New And How To Get Started
Cyber-risk management cannot live in a vacuum. And while high-level best practices might remain largely the same over a period of years, both the t...
Why It’s Time To Start Planning For The EU AI Act
Few technologies have the potential to worry regulators and delight businesses quite like artificial intelligence (AI). It’s been around for years ...
Friend or Foe? Either Way, the Cyber Resilience Act Is Coming
The European Commission has technology vendors and sellers in its sights. Consumers and businesses have been plagued by poorly designed, engineered...
The Deepfake Threat Is Here: It’s Time to Start Building it into Enterprise Risk Management
When UK consumer rights champion Martin Lewis took to social media to promote a new ‘Quantum AI’ investment scheme, many were surprised at the move...
Beyond the Factory: Why Operational Technology Risk is Everywhere
When a report revealed 56 new vulnerabilities in 10 operational technology (OT) vendors’ products last year, experts hailed it as a wake-up c...
Dependencies of Dependencies: The Critical Challenge of Managing Software Supply Chain Risk
Software runs the world. It keeps aircraft in the sky, hospitals running and ensures the global financial system never misses a beat. But increasin...
Getting Healthcare Security Right Starts with the Basics
No organisation wants to suffer a major security breach. But when it happens to healthcare organisations (HCOs) like NHS trusts, there can be an ou...
NIS 2 is Coming: Here’s What UK Organisations Need to Know
The UK’s Network & Information Systems (NIS) Regulations came into force in May 2018, following the EU’s 2016 NIS Directive. Due to...
Enterprise Data is Increasingly in Peril: It’s Time to Improve Governance
Data-driven insight is increasingly the foundation on which successful companies are built. Giving the right people access to the right information...
What the Capita Breach Tells Us About Managing Supply Chain Risk
When IT outsourcing giant Capita suffered a ransomware breach in March, it tried its best to control the media narrative. But supply chain incident...
What the Data Protection and Digital Information Bill Means for Business
The UK’s digital economy was worth an estimated £259bn in 2021, according to the government. And it comprised 85% of total service exports. T...
