Blog Topic: Cybersecurity

Reading Time: 3 minutes Data breaches are catastrophic for any industry, but particularly in local authorities where consumer trust is paramount. The reputational damage to an organisation can be terminal. One in four councils breached Over a quarter of all UK councils have had… Read More

Reading Time: 2 minutes According to a regulator, retail banks in the region took the biggest hit last year. Financial service firms across the UK reported nearly 1000 cyber incidents to the region’s Financial Conduct Authority in 2018, a significant jump from the… Read More

Reading Time: 3 minutes NIST, the National Institute of Standards and Technology, is a non-regulatory federal agency of the U.S. Commerce Department. Established in 1901, NIST was designed to promote innovation and competitiveness by advancing standards. And in February 2013, the United States… Read More

Reading Time: 3 minutes Alabama is the latest state to adopt the Insurance Data Security Model Law, a legal framework that requires insurers to develop and implement an information security program among other security standards. More than two years have passed since the… Read More

Reading Time: 5 minutes Cybersecurity threats are happening constantly in healthcare – last year, a new breach was reported every day. From phishing attacks to malicious insiders, all sides can be left vulnerable. But the insider threat can be one of the most damaging… Read More