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Why You Need Cyber Resilience and Defence in Depth
ISO 27001

Why You Need Cyber Resilience and Defence in Depth

And how to become resilient with ISO 27001 and ISO 22301 Unfortunately, even the most secure organisation can suffer an incident. The odds are simply stacked against you: While you need to protect all your assets from all types of threat, an attacker needs only one exploitable weakness to get into your systems. Plus, any security measure you implement is only designed to stop, at most, a handful of threats – and that’s assuming it was both correctly implemented and still doing its job. Regardless of implementation, single measures aren’t enough – because no measure is foolproof. The consequences of
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How to Select Effective Security Controls
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How to Select Effective Security Controls

Risk–benefit analysis, defence in depth, information security objectives and proportionality Looking to mitigate your information security risks but not sure how to choose effective controls while staying on budget? Risk–benefit analysis is key, as is defence in depth. You also want to set information security objectives that are aligned to your business objectives, and be proportionate in your control selections. Our head of GRC (governance, risk and compliance) consultancy, Damian Garcia, explains further. In this interview Risk–benefit analysis How do you choose appropriate security controls? You need to be clear on two things: Then hopefully, the benefit outweighs the risk.
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Cyber Threats During the Holidays: How to Stay Safe From Seasonal Scams and Data Breaches
Data Protection

Cyber Threats During the Holidays: How to Stay Safe From Seasonal Scams and Data Breaches

As the year draws to a close, let’s look at: 3 major data breaches from 2024 COMBs (compilations of many breaches) aside – like the MOAB (mother of all breaches) in January 2024, which leaked more than 26 billion records – let’s look at three major breaches from 2024: 1. National Public data breach In August 2024, NPD (National Public Data) confirmed a breach that compromised sensitive information, including Social Security numbers, affecting nearly all Americans. The breach was linked to unauthorised access attempts in December 2023 and potential data leaks in April and summer 2024. Personal data of up
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