Cryptocurrency is a word that has become more commonplace in conversation, especially over the last few years as the crypto market has expanded and hit the mainstream news. It all began back in 2009 with Bitcoin, and now there is estimated to be ov ...
The Importance of Air-Gapping for Ransomware Recovery
Ransomware differs from traditional threats to information security in that the attacker’s goal is not to steal the data, but rather to prevent the victim from accessing their own data. In most cases, the data affected by ransomware never actually ...
BCP Stage 5: Oversight and Assurance
This is the final stage of the Business Continuity Planning (BCP) documents. By now, you should have: 1. Understood your organisation’s priorities2. Captured the Current Capabilities & Core Resources3. Developed the Response & Recove ...
BCP Stage 4: Building the Business Continuity Organisation
BCP Stage 4: Building the Business Continuity Organisation The initial three articles of this series focused on the process of Developing Business Continuity Plans (BCP). Now, we move the discussion on to how these are deployed and maintained ...
BCP Stage 3: Develop Response and Recovery Plans
In this, the third of five articles giving a detailed view into each step of the "5 Key Stages to Business Continuity Planning", we now focus on BCP Stage 3: The Response and Recovery Plans. These relate to the priority functions and the specific s ...
BCP Stage 2: Understand Current Capabilities and Core Resources
BCP Stage 2: Understand Current Capabilities & Core Resources During the first step of developing a Business Continuity Plan, we established the organisation's priorities and thresholds for disruption based on considerations such as cust ...
BCP Stage 1: Understand Your Organisation’s Priorities
BCP Stage 1: Understand Your Organisation’s Priorities Do you understand your organisation's data? This post is the first in a series of posts that provide a deep dive into each step covered in our earlier Blog, “The 5 Key Stages to Business Conti ...
The 5 Key Stages to Business Continuity Planning
The 5 Key Stages to Business Continuity Planning (BCP) provide a practical framework for building resilience beyond a tick-box approach, but is this the right way to do it? The answer is ‘no’. The reality is that there are several key steps involve ...
Cyber Security Implications of Working from Home
Cyber security has become a growing concern for companies as they face dozens of cyber attacks each week, especially with more staff working from home. For example, here are just a few of the current trends that you may recognise. Your staff may re ...