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P&O – What’s in a Name: A Case Study in Brand Risk
What's in a company name. Quite a lot. It's a key part of an organisation's brand. It's how customers identify an organisation. A company's name is sacrosanct! Organisations want their customers to think positively about their name. They want their customers to tell their friends positive things about their experiences with their brand. What organisationsRead More -
ISO 27001:2022 – Information Classification – Is it now time for #ABIC
Information Classification (IC) is core to an effective security programme. After Asset Management, it's probably the most important component of an Information Security Management System. For those already certified to the current version of 27001, your old information classification system is likely to need a revamp. The new 27002:2022 control guidelines have been updated to reflectRead More -
Security Awareness is Dead. Long Live Security Activism!
At the end of 2019, I wrote an article "Security Awareness Dies - My 2020 Prediction" where I talk about how the way organisations go about awareness training is not a great return on investment. The core message was that information security professionals should think about awareness differently. We need to take the opportunity thatRead More -
2022 – Business Leaders don’t need our security predictions, they need these recommendations!
It's the beginning of the year and some bright spark in the marketing department has an idea for recycling last year's lead-generating article. Even though none of last year's predictions actually came true, how about we make some new predictions about what is going to happen in 2022. We can then show how our suiteRead More -
What would WW3 look like if it started now? – Thinking the unthinkable to aid better Risk Management.
When managing risk it's easy to dismiss certain events from happening because they seem too far removed from our perceived reality. The reality is however that our perception of what we think is far from reality can be vastly skewed. Humans tend to underestimate the likelihood of certain events occurring. For example, the risk ofRead More -
Business Leaders: Ransomware is actually all-around at Christmas!
It seems to me that ransomware is everywhere. More often than not, it's particularly undignified and highly newsworthy, but it's always there: headquarters and subsidiaries, major organisations and SMEs, charities and financial services, logistics, aviation, ransomware is our old friend. When ransomware hits a company without good security, as far as I know, none of the phoneRead More
