The Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) is a regulation introduced by the European Union to ensure that financial entities can withstand, respond to, and recover from all types of Information and Communication Technology (ICT)-related disruptions and threats. This regulation is crucial for…
Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery
The recent Energy Crisis has highlighted how critical energy supplies are to the running of our daily operations. It is therefore a very good opportunity to explain the difference between Business Continuity Planning (BCP) and Disaster Recovery (DR). Let’s start…
NIST Framework
I have recently worked on an IT Security Improvement project focusing closely on the NIST framework, therefore I would like to present it to you and explain why it is so important in cyber security. In a nutshell, by auditing…
Zero Trust in IT Networks
Developed by Forrester’s John Kindervag in 2010, this new approach to security and architecture design replaced the obsolete and inefficient perimeter based approach (Single Trust Boundary). “Zero Trust is a security concept centered on the belief that organizations should not…
Cloud Security Trends of 2021
As COVID-19 impacted the world in such a way that no one ever expected organizations had to make major changes and strategize to survive. More than 100% rise in the adaptation of cloud technologies by organizations has been encountered in…
The importance of Information Governance Policy for an organisation
Cyber security, being one of the most discussed subject of 2017, due to the many large scale attacks that took place, is a very a complex subjects which often times feels just like a burden and an overhead to organisations.…
Security Alert! The challenging of patching a large production estate
NHS WannaCry was just one of the many cyber security incidents that took place in the first half of 2017. We all have seen how our digital society can be easily put to on its knees by some cleverly planned cyber…