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Business continuity planning

• September 12, 2019 12 Sep'19

  Government seeks views on post-Brexit security alignment

  The government has called for views on its proposals to align the UK’s post-Brexit cyber security policy to that of the European Union

• August 29, 2019 29 Aug'19

  UK firms getting on top of IT downtime costs

  Despite data breach headlines, UK firms are generally improving in their data protection, business continuity, cyber preparedness and understanding of downtime costs, study shows

• August 14, 2019 14 Aug'19

  DCMS funding aims to increase diversity in cyber sector

  A funding round has been announced as part of the Cyber Skills Immediate Impact Fund (CSIIF) with aims of encouraging more diverse talent into the UK’s cyber security sector

• August 14, 2019 14 Aug'19

  Digital domain identified as major security threat by Norway’s intelligence service

  Norway's intelligence services has revealed the extent of the threat posed to the country by cyber attacks

• August 08, 2019 08 Aug'19

  Ransomware a continued threat to business, report warns

  Businesses are increasingly becoming the most popular targets for ransomware, which remains a top cyber threat around the world, especially in the US, a report reveals

• August 06, 2019 06 Aug'19

  Most UK firms lack confidence in disaster recovery

  Only a third of UK firms are confident in their ability to recover from cyber attacks and other disasters, with business continuity still relatively low on the agenda, a study reveals

• August 05, 2019 05 Aug'19

  DDoS on the rise, warns Kaspersky

  Security researchers at Kaspersky are among those warning business that, more than ever, mitigation of distributed denial of service attacks needs to be a key element of cyber defence strategies

• July 23, 2019 23 Jul'19

  Data breach costs on the rise, IBM study shows

  Data breach costs have risen in the past decade, and the financial impact can be felt for years. Breaches posing a growing risk for small businesses, a study shows, underlining the importance of incident response

• June 27, 2019 27 Jun'19

  Dutch bank and researchers begin defence against quantum computing’s dark side

  ABN Amro is working with QuTech to ensure that banks can protect data against quantum computers in the future

• June 21, 2019 21 Jun'19

  CIOs experience stress, verbal and physical abuse during IT failures

  Business continuity involves more than the investment in resilient IT – staff and their families need support too

• June 17, 2019 17 Jun'19

  Asco breaks silence on ransomware attack

  A week after reportedly being hit by a ransomware attack, Belgium-based mechanical equipment manufacturer Asco has finally provided some details

• June 07, 2019 07 Jun'19

  NotPetya offers industry-wide lessons, says Maersk’s tech chief

  There are several key industry-wide lessons to be learned from the NotPetya attack in 2017, according to the information chief at one of the companies most heavily impacted

• May 16, 2019 16 May'19

  Norwegian industry and state must combine to counter cyber threats

  Norway has been targeted by two large ransomware attacks in recent months – and public and private organisations must react in a coordinated way

• May 03, 2019 03 May'19

  Norsk Hydro urges caution as it counts cost of cyber attack

  Norwegian aluminium giant Norsk Hydro is urging partners to be cautious in the wake of a damaging ransomware attack in March as financial impact estimates come in above initial estimates

• April 11, 2019 11 Apr'19

  Most organisations still lack incident response plans

  Most companies lack incident response plans, others fail to test them and nearly half are not GDPR compliant, but some report improved security through automation, a study shows