Fighting Cybercrime with Regulation
Is it just me or is the world going crazy? The current scourge of cybercrime is a bit of a blight on the copybook of many governments...
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Cyber security insights
STORM's cyber security insights bring you all the latest trends in digital security, cyber insurance, incident response and more
STORM Guidance blog
See what our specialists have to say about ransomware, business email compromise, extortion, data theft and all aspects of cyber risk.
Rosanna Hayes
- Oct 6, 2020
How to Convey Cyber Risk to Senior Management
CYBER3 aids brokers in addressing precise underwriting indicators to assess cyber exposure for an accurate and tailored insurance plan.
Neil HB
- Jul 23, 2020
Screen Scraping for Data Exfiltration
Screen Scraping or Web Scraping is a technique commonly used by both legitimate business and cyber criminals to collect data from web...
Neil HB
- Feb 6, 2019
Ransomware: Prepare, Prevent, Respond
Ransomware is the extortion-driven malware epidemic sweeping the globe. There are a large and growing number of Ransomware programs all...
Neil HB
- Apr 17, 2018
Stress Testing Your Cyber Risk Management
"You can't write an entry about stress testing. People will think your article will be about regulatory control and the survival of...
Neil HB
- Aug 16, 2017
BA risks adding insult to injury: Boards & IT Crisis Management
I have been keeping up with the news on the IT outage at BA and noticed that it resonates with subject matter in a blog entry I wrote in...
Neil HB
- May 12, 2017
Can Cyber Protection be Straight-Forward? - Part 1
In the wake of the recent WCry Ransomware attacks on the NHS I have to ask whether I am missing something; or has the cyber security...
Neil HB
- Mar 4, 2017
Investigations Skills Required
There are a growing number of cyber response companies beginning to hit the scene in response to the sheer number and cost of breaches....
Neil HB
- Feb 7, 2017
Have InfoSec Professionals Failed?
I commented on a recent LI post asking whether the rise in cyber breaches are as a result of insecurity due to failure of InfoSec...
Neil HB
- Oct 27, 2016
Third Party Risk Management
Supply chain risk is a popular subject of concern at the moment. There have been a number of recent papers and studies undertaken...
Neil HB
- Sep 11, 2016
CISOs & IT Directors: Risk Transfer Can Work!
I have been in many meetings and seminars where I have been astounded at the response that CISOs, CIOs and IT Directors have given when a...
Neil HB
- Sep 5, 2016
Risk is not an 'absence of control'
I regularly visit so many organisations and attend so many meetings where the overwhelming view of risk is that it is inversely...
Neil HB
- Sep 5, 2016
Keep Calm and Respond Well
The development of incident response, be it in the origins of Computer Emergency Response Teams or the modern equivalent provided by the...
Neil HB
- Apr 21, 2016
Hackers or Technology Vendors: spot the difference?
I have attended a number of events and listened to some wonderful technical minds explaining to me how various new technologies are...
Sarb S
- Jul 25, 2014
ICO fines Think W3 £150,000
On the 23rd July 2014, the ICO web site listed this monetary fine issued to travel company Think W3 who become the 33rd organisation to...
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