Google’s Quantum Supremacy – Anyone else feeling underwhelmed?

I noticed on the news the other day that there is (yet another) Terminator film out: Dark Fate, where Sarah Connor is back, now looking like a cross-between The Golden Girls meets Super Gran. …And of course, good old Arnie has come good with his famous promise: “I’ll be back” although perhaps it would be […]

Top challenges for the CISO in 2020

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Being a CISO in today’s rapidly changing and evolving technological landscape is no easy task. Add to that the constant and increasing threat of attack by rapidly more sophisticated and devious malicious actors and you begin to understand the talk of sleepless nights, high attrition and incredibly high-stress rates attributed to the profession. Like fighting […]

Red Team Testing – not just a Penetration Test in a posh hat

Penetration Testing is not Red Team Testing

The term Red Team Testing has been around for a while, its origins are from the military, wherein simple terms, team A (the Blue Team) would be tasked with defending a specified zone and team B (the Red Team) would be tasked with attacking it. Thus, highlighting deficiencies in both the Blue Team and Red […]

No, it won’t automatically make you GDPR compliant, but it will help…

If you’re about to embark on the journey to ISO 27001, or if you’ve achieved the certification and are now in the process of maintaining it, then the new privacy information management extension to ISO 27001 could be something you may want to consider. It was purposefully developed to address and assist organisations in meeting […]

The business case for penetration testing – Preaching to the unconverted:

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How do you communicate ROI on Penetration Testing to gain buy-in? Did you get your car insurance renewal quote in recently? Chances are it’s gone up and chances are you are wondering whether it’s worth it. For non-tech savvy finance folk and to be fair, some tech-savvy non-finance folk, you can understand why they might […]

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