Tag: small business

Cygnus Coronavirus

Operation CYGNUS – Was the UK’s Coronavirus response a failure based in assumption…?

So much has been discussed about the Tier One Command Post Pandemic planning exercise of 2016. For those who haven’t been part of the discussion, the Public Health England, on behalf of the Department of Health delivered a pandemic planning exercise between 18 to 20 October 2016. The exercise was primarily aimed at assessing high-level…
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data breach

Data Breach: 10% of affected businesses closed down in 2019…or did they…?

I know there is a rush to get things out the door and I am very grateful for those who report on data breach stats but this article from Dark Reading piqued my interest: 10% of Small Businesses Breached Shut Down in 2019. Whenever I see a statistic like this I am always a little…
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securing small businesses

Securing small businesses – block ‘most’​ external cyber threats with these four low-cost controls

Securing small businesses is a different type of challenge to securing a larger organisation. Doing these four things could block most external cyber threats!