Protecting Your Digital Assets Against Cyber Attacks. Cyber Criminals Are Probably Winning. Here is why.
You have been hacked! Those are four words that no organisation wants to hear - ever. The reality is that all organisations are vulnerable to cyber criminals activities. According to a recent article by Kelly Sheridan ( Dark Reading), the Cybercrime Economy Generates $1.5 Trillion a Year!
That’s a mind blowing figure. In this article, I share some thoughts as...
Data, consumers and trust: the quiet crisis
Building trust-based relationships with clients has always been important for successful business practice. As the global data pool grows and consumer fears over personal privacy increase, it may become make-or-break.
In the last two years, we have created 90% of the total data in the world today. In a day, we spit out an average of 2.5 quintillion bytes –...
A Cyber Security strategy to mitigate risks in complex and critical environments: the case of airports1
Abstract
Airports are critical and complex systems that represent an excellent case study for establishing a flexible and reusable cyber security framework for risk mitigation. A complex system is made up of interacting components (agents) that adapt their behavior overtime in reaction to changes with respect to their environment and to each other . Within such infrastructures, absolute security does...
Proving your credentials – A potentially more secure future via Blockchain
Your digital identity is the gateway to your data, and increasingly, this includes most facets of your everyday life. Whether it’s your social media accounts, your bank details, your chat history or your shopping habits.
With so many accounts to manage and protect, maintaining constant access across multiple devices whilst keeping them all secure can be an increasingly complex task.
With...
GDPR: What comes next?
For those who have been hidden under a rock for the past two years, GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) is a regulation in EU law on data protection and privacy for all individuals within the European Union, or who have data held within EU states. It replaces the out-dated Data Protection Directive and brings all of the policies and...
Impact of GDPR on Biometric Systems
Many organisations and developers are worried about the impact of GDPR on biometric solutions, so let’s explore the main security and compliance considerations involved. There has been rare, but poorly informed, advice given to customers that biometric systems cannot comply with the new legislation. But nothing could be further from the truth.
Background
Itis worth revisiting the meaning of “data”, under...
When does no news mean good news?
I wonder how many C-level managers went on this May Bank Holiday with a bit of trepidation. Not that the GDPR legislation has incidentally kicked in on a Friday ahead of a long weekend, but owing to the build-up of anticipation of what happens next.
Organisations large and small have been dutifully following the updates from ICO. Now that the...
Editorial: GDPR readiness consumed much of peoples time this year where will the next focus.
One of the benefits of being both editor of this magazine and an industry executive in a commercial cybersecurity business is the observation gained from real experience in the field. From my perspective, whilst the large story of the year so far has been the GDPR coming into effect on 25 May 2018, which clearly created some commercial opportunities,...
