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Clarion Housing Association Cyber Incident, June 2022 – A Case Study
Dec 01 2023
In this week’s bulletin, Charlie looks at the recent cyber incident from Clarion and explains how organisations can recover from...
Vishing – What Is It and Should You Be Worried?
Nov 17 2023
This week, Charlie discusses vishing and how it can affect your organisation, and looks at the importance of sufficient cyber...
What is MITRE ATT&CK and Why Might You Be Interested in It?
Oct 27 2023
In this week’s bulletin, Charlie explains what MITRE ATT&CK is and the importance of familiarising yourself with its framework. First,...
AI Bulletin: MGM Grand Cyber Attack – What Happened and What Businesses Can Learn
Sep 15 2023
This week we thought it would be interesting to see how good Google Bard is at writing bulletins. We gave...
An Old Threat Returns…Computer Outage
Sep 01 2023
Charlie discusses the recent IT failure of NATS which caused numerous flight delays and gives an insight into why we...
Data Breaches: Does Anyone Care?
Aug 11 2023
Charlie talks about the recent cyber attacks on the University of the West of Scotland (UWS) and the Police Service...
How good is ChatGPT at answering questions about business continuity and resilience?
Aug 04 2023
ChatGPT has never been far from the headlines over the past few months. Continuity Central thought it would be interesting...
Use of Cyber Threat Intelligence to Guide Crisis Response: A Checklist for Crisis Teams
Jul 21 2023
In this week’s bulletin, Charlie discusses the questions that organisations should be considering when carrying out a potential response to...
Business Continuity Professionals – Is AI Going to Make You Redundant?
Jul 14 2023
Charlie discusses the emerging use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and looks at what changes it can make within your organisation...
What is the Difference Between Cyber Incident Management and Cyber Incident Response?
Jun 23 2023
Charlie looks at the difference between cyber incident management and cyber incident response and the different set of issues they...
Quantum Computing and Its Implications for Cyber Resilience
May 19 2023
To celebrate Business Continuity Awareness Week and the theme ‘Embracing the challenge of Resilience’, this week’s bulletin has been written...
Capita Hack: A Case Study of What Not To Do…
May 05 2023
In this week’s bulletin, Charlie discusses Capita’s response to its recent cyber attack and gives an insight into how organisations...
Thoughts on CyberUK 2023
Apr 21 2023
Charlie gives an insight into his thoughts on the recent CyberUK conference and discusses how cyber security has changed in...
ASIS Europe 2023 – From Risk to Resilience
Mar 24 2023
In this week’s bulletin, Charlie discusses his thoughts from his recent security conference in Rotterdam and gives an insight into...
Ransomware Payments – Some Statistics
Mar 17 2023
This week, Charlie provides some interesting statistics around the payment of ransomware and gives an insight into the amount of...
Negotiating with Hackers – Lessons to Take Away
Mar 10 2023
In this week’s bulletin, Charlie discusses what to do in a negotiation situation with hackers, and looks at what we...
Arnold Clark Hack – A Car Crash in Motion?
Feb 17 2023
In today’s bulletin, Charlie gives his thoughts about Arnold Clark’s recent cyber incident and gives an insight into their response,...
Royal Mail Ransomware Attack – Some Comments
Jan 20 2023
This week, Charlie discusses the ‘cyber incident’ affecting Royal Mail and gives an insight into his recent ‘Cyber Course for...
Where Business Continuity Comes In: Why Your Cyber Security Must Be Designed For Recovery
Dec 02 2022
One of the biggest falsehoods of cyber security is that it is an IT problem. Any cyber breach, whether caused...
Ransomware – If you pay a ransom, do you get your data back?
Nov 11 2022
In this week’s bulletin, Charlie discusses paying a ransom to retrieve your data and shares his research on how much...
Learning from the Scottish Cyber Summit
Oct 28 2022
Charlie attended The Scottish Cyber Summit earlier this week and has summarised points made by different speakers and panellists. Yesterday,...
Statutory Cyber Incident Reporting in the USA
Oct 14 2022
This week’s bulletin covers the new Cyber Security laws in America, how these incidents should be reported, and the organisations...
Cyber Attacks on Hospitals – What are the Impacts? (Part 2)
Sep 23 2022
This is part 2 of last week’s bulletin, discussing the dire impacts of a cyber attack on healthcare services. Communications...
Cyber Attacks on Hospitals – What are the Impacts?
Sep 16 2022
After conducting cyber incident exercises in a hospital this week, Charlie is sharing his key take aways and research, looking...
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