Luke Irwin Archive
Cyber resilience is the ability to prepare for, respond to and recover from cyber security incidents. It helps organisations protect themselves from cyber risks, defend against and limit the severity of attacks, and ensure that business operations continue to function …
Sometimes the only thing that can stop an outrageous plan is an even more outrageous one. At least that was the thinking at the Bank of Valletta in Malta, which last week prevented a daring cyber heist by shutting down …
Buckinghamshire-based housing developer Magnacrest has been fined for failing to respond to DSARs (data subject access requests), giving organisations a fresh reminder of the importance of the public’s legal rights to review the information that’s processed about them. The investigation …
We’ve been extolling the virtues of cyber resilience a lot lately – and for good reason. The approach, which describes the ability to prepare for, respond to and recover from security incidents, is quickly becoming accepted by information security experts …
Cyber resilience isn’t something you can buy. It’s not as simple as finding off-the-shelf tools to plug into your organisation. Rather, you must tailor your approach to your needs, assessing the way any one solution affects the whole. That may …
While Brexit continues to cause widespread uncertainty, you can at least be sure of one thing: deal or no deal, the security risks your organisation faces won’t go away. Data breaches are on the up, and information security and GDPR …
Following an investigation by the ICO (Information Commissioner’s Office) and an unpaid fine for breaching the PECR (Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations), a Manchester-based business has, on the ICO’s petition, been wound up and, following an investigation by the Insolvency Service, …
An advert is currently running in which a man gets his password hacked because, the ad implies, he wasn’t using a VPN (virtual private network). The man’s password? ‘John123’. When you’re that hopeless at creating login credentials, there’s not much …
Mumsnet has disclosed a data breach that occurred during a software update between 5-7 February. A technical error meant that users who logged on simultaneously were directed to someone else’s account. The site’s founder, Justine Roberts, said that up to 4,000 users logged in while the vulnerability (which sounds like a caching glitch) was effective, but only 14 users have confirmed that they …
We recently claimed that DPOs (data protection officers) are “the key to data breach response”, but you could argue that they are the key to GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) compliance in general. DPOs occupy a unique position in the …
