Crime

“do SMEs need some type of digital transparency for business information security issues?”

Now, I’m not suggesting some form of digital whistleblower that champions the transparency of digital and software vulnerabilities, although that could be one option. But I am suggesting some form of ‘collective intelligence: a shared intelligence that emerges from a collective and transparent collaboration of...

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“situational awareness and the information infrastructure battlespace”

In my previous post, I suggested that cyber had become the new battlespace. I admit that while the role of the cyber environment as a fully-fledged warfighting domain is open to sustained debate, it is very clear that the cyber environment is one in which...

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“eu GDPR: what are the benefits for uk citizens?”

The European Parliament and Council have reached agreement on the data protection reform proposed by the Commission. The reform is an essential step to strengthen citizens’ fundamental rights in the digital age and facilitate business by simplifying rules for companies in the Digital Single Market....

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“nothing is ever produced 100 per cent secure!”

The vast majority of business executives surveyed during the Annual Global Information Security Survey believed their cyber security programs to be effective at securing the organization’s data. Unfortunately, the reality is slightly different.  Firstly, there has been an increase in the number of both large...

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“context informed information infrastructures for better situational awareness”

In a previous blog ‘network situational awareness: sonification & visualization in the cyber battlespace’, I suggested that computer networks may be viewed as a cyber warfighting domain in which the maintenance of situational awareness is impaired by increasing traffic volumes and the lack of immediate...

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Watch out for that Banana Skin…

In a series of future articles, we will be looking at the use & misuse of social media, and how social media can help to improve the cyber resilience of your organization – to kick-off that series, this blog on a social media strategy by...

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“misunderstanding of the threat posed by cyber crime is leaving SMEs vulnerable to losing information, profit and customers!”

Small and medium sized companies are putting a third (32%) of their revenue at risk because they are falling for some of the common misconceptions around cyber security, leaving them vulnerable to losing valuable data and suffering both financial and reputational damage. Yet new research...

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“scams relating to social media have increased substantially over the past five years”

  The Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) has released its Internet Crime Report for 2014, indicating that scams relating to social media — including doxing, click-jacking, and pharming — have increased substantially over the past five years. US-CERT encourages users to review the IC3 Alert for...

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“employee use & misuse of social media!”

Using social media and the internet effectively and appropriately can bring huge business benefits to small to medium enterprises – these benefits can include improved communications with customers, clients, and suppliers, almost immediate access to data and information, and via social media, it also offers...

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“consumerization of information technology: mitigating risky user actions and improving productivity with nudging”

In this work the authors attempt to address the main issues of IT consumerization that are related to security risks, and propose a ‘soft’ mitigation strategy for user actions based on nudging, widely applied to health and social behaviour influence. In particular, the authors propose...

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