This Week's Gurus

Whether it’s home-based workers or teams operating across disparate sites, many businesses are struggling to make the remote working vision a reality. Contrary to popular belief, our recent flexible working study revealed the differing preferences between the multi-generational workforce, with the younger generation preferring to work from the office rather than remotely. This was in clear contrast to baby boomers, who would rather work from home. The research, which polled 1,000 working adults in the UK, also...

If the last few months have taught us anything, it’s that enterprises clearly need to take a long hard look at the cyber security they have in place.  One thing is clear – cyber threats now present a bigger risk to organisations than ever before.  Considering the huge growth in the number of new ransomware families (an increase of 752% since 2015), online extortion has become a major issue and one that businesses must address....

I said earlier in 2017 I believed it was quite possible that in 2017 a major cyberattack will occur in either the United States, the United Kingdom, or another friendly country that will require a response equivalent to a kinetic attack. In other words, a cyberattack will occur that will be looked on as an act of war. To date, despite the fact that cyberattacks can easily surpass kinetic attacks in both scope, magnitude and...

In the past year alone, cybercriminals have upped their game when it comes to high-profile global attacks, with Mirai, WannaCry and Petya all occurring one after the other. The effects have been devastating to some of the world’s largest economies and industries. However, despite the attention in the media, this is not a new phenomenon. Attacks such as the ILOVEYOU worm and Code Red were both huge attacks, in some cases, affecting far more devices...

A new report by the Information Security Forum (ISF) entitled Threat Intelligence: React and Prepare made headlines last month with its main finding that only 25% of companies surveyed felt that threat intelligence is delivering on its promise. While the findings in the report are all valid, pointing to threat intelligence and crying foul is an easy scapegoat. Nobody said threat intelligence was going to be easy…it is difficult for a number of reasons. But...

From recruiting the most talented employees, to ensuring accounts are in order and providing staff with the latest technological innovations, businesses across the globe work tirelessly every day to strive for success. Lurking behind every policy, best practice and guideline, however, is a world that often gets neglected. What happens when someone leaves the company? Of course, in an ideal world, businesses recruit a capable replacement, tie up any loose ends on a project they...

Few threats expose the true interdependency of cyber and physical security more than those targeting the oil and natural gas (ONG) sector. After all, oil and natural gas together account for 53 percent of the world’s energy consumption and remain integral determinants of both global trade and the economy. Safeguarding these resources and the systems on which they rely is crucial, especially given the uptick in incidents posing substantial cyber and physical risks to critical infrastructure. However,...

The deadline for GDPR compliance is now less than a year away. The regulation has become a major business concern for many companies, with good reason - one of the most publicised parts of the legislation is the threat of non-compliance fines up to 4 per cent of global revenues. That’s without mentioning the inestimable reputational damage that comes with it. Consumers are now more sensitive than ever to how their personal data is processed and...

J.J. Guy, Senior Director of Cloud Engineering, Carbon Black Several years ago, security leaders in many organisations were promoted from a mid-tier manager to the CISO.  In the early org chart iterations, security was considered as “just one more job” of the IT department, so the manager who owns security took the CISO title but continued to report to the CIO. As businesses learned security was more about overall business risk than simply a function...

There has been loads written and talked about surrounding General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The new regulation is arguably the most significant change in global privacy law in twenty-two years and businesses must shore up their cybersecurity processes and procedures to avoid facing financial penalties. GDPR is due to be implemented on May 25th 2018 and the regulation places important new obligations on any business that handles the data of individuals living in the EU,...