ISO 27001 Compliance Archive
For many people, the prospect of conducting a risk assessment is daunting. Inexperienced assessors often rely on spreadsheets, spending hours interviewing people in their organisation, exchanging documents and methodologies with other departments and filling in data. After all that, they’ll …
Organisations that believe they can ignore cyber risk management and the benefits it offers will probably lose out as others adopt more efficient, more economical, less human-resource-intensive solutions. For effective cyber risk management, an organisation needs a thorough understanding of the …
We’re kicking off a new series of blogs tackling some of the biggest misconceptions around risk assessments, information security, data protection, regulatory compliance, and other issues that our customers are grappling with. Today’s theme is one that comes up time …
For many organisations, information is their most important asset, so protecting it is crucial. Information security is “the practice of preventing unauthorized access, use, disclosure, disruption, modification, inspection, recording or destruction of information”. Information can take many forms, such as electronic and …
On 2 April, Google+ will cease to exist for external users. The search giant has cited two main reasons for the move: low user engagement and, more insidiously, software design flaws that allowed “third-party app developers to access the data not just of …
Information security standards such as those developed and published by the ISO (International Organization for Standardization) might not be enshrined in law, but that doesn’t mean they should be viewed as a ‘nice to have’ or an afterthought in your …
It’s an announcement few information security specialists want to make: the organisation has suffered a data breach. The breach itself is bad enough, but now everyone in the office is panicking. Some will grumble about how they’re going to miss …
At the beginning of January, Vigilant Software launched a free seven-day trial of its software tools: vsRisk Cloud, the Data Flow Mapping Tool, Compliance Manager, the DPIA Tool and GDPR Manager. A free trial is the best way to understand …
A Ping Identity study has revealed that 78% of consumers would no longer use a retailer’s website if it had suffered a data breach. Ping’s 2018 Consumer Survey, which polled more than 3,000 people across Europe and the US, also …
The past two years of Brexit negotiations have largely proved the late William Goldman’s adage that “nobody knows anything”. No one can tell you what Brexit will entail, very little has been finalised and there’s a real possibility that the …
