ISO 27001 Archive
Last November, Health Secretary Matt Hancock told NHS chiefs: “If you haven’t got your CIO on board then you need to be asking serious questions of yourself.” Hancock argued that CIOs were vital to developing the necessary systems and …
Have you ever wondered whether your organisation should become certified to ISO 27001? ISO 27001 provides the specification for an effective ISMS (information security management system) – a framework that offers a structured, comprehensive approach to managing information security risks. …
Data breaches are one of the biggest threat to organisations today. They can bring operations to a grinding halt, drastically damage your reputation and your relationship with customers, and cause severe financial losses from lost sales, remediation and repair costs, …
Digital disruption has long made its presence felt in the retail banking sector. A series of challenger brands have launched in recent years, building innovative and intuitive digital interfaces from the ground up and in some cases forgoing physical premises …
What is cyber risk management? Cyber risk is the identification, analysis and evaluation of cyber risks. It understands and analyses the IT infrastructure, identifies the potential vulnerabilities within different systems, then prioritises the identified risks and makes coordinated efforts to …
Articles 25(1) and 25(2) of the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) outline your obligations concerning ‘data protection by design and by default’. This requirement ensures that the six data protection principles are implemented, and that individuals’ rights are always safeguarded. …
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 …
