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 organisations…
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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 reflect…
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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 that…
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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 suite…
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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 of…
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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 phone…
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Sun Tzu, wrote in the Art of War: “If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in…
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We all know about some social engineering techniques. Phishing for example is a technique that most people have heard of – but there are many others. For example, there is a pricing gimmick that attempts to persuade buyers that a product is not that expensive. The gimmick is to present the cost of the product…
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When pitching for consultancy work, many of our clients are [initially] surprised we at Fox Red Risk do not price any of our services based on a daily rate model. It seems the majority of consulting organisations, small and large, price their jobs based on some form of time-based billing. This billing approach may be…
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According to the 2020/21 ICO annual report, around half of the [46% of ~40k] complaints the regulator receives are related to subject access. Fulfilling DSARs is clearly an area where Data Controllers are facing challenges with data subject satisfaction. In a previous article, I wrote about coping with DSAR volumes, suggesting methods to bring such high numbers…
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