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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...
Online Reputation Management
Mar 03 2023
In today’s bulletin, Charlie discusses how you could salvage your reputation after an accusation, using Online Reputation Management (ORM) companies....
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,...
Disaster Response – Myths Debunked
Feb 10 2023
In this week’s bulletin, Charlie talks about our responses after a disaster and addresses some misconceptions about immediate responders. I...
Do Application RTOs and RPOs ‘Work’ During a Cyber Incident?
Feb 03 2023
In this week’s bulletin, Charlie covers the important use of RTOs (Recovery Time Objectives) and RPOs (Recovery Point Objectives) in...
Use of Feedback Forms After Exercises
Jan 27 2023
This week, Charlie discusses the best way of utilising feedback forms after your exercises, and why they should be used...
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...
What is a ‘Grey Rhino’ and Should I Be Worried About Them?
Jan 13 2023
In this week’s bulletin, Charlie looks at the concept of a ‘Grey Rhino’ and how organisations should deal with them....
Thoughts on the Coming New Year
Jan 06 2023
In the first bulletin of 2023, Charlie discusses the potential issues that may arise this year and how organisations may...
Top Bulletins of 2022!
Dec 23 2022
Here are our top 10 bulletins from 2022! We hope you have enjoyed reading these as much as we have....
10 Tasks to Carry Out Before Going On Holiday
Dec 16 2022
In this week’s bulletin, Charlie discusses how you can be prepared for the Christmas break. With some of us finishing...
Bulletin Thoughts
Dec 09 2022
In this week’s bulletin, Charlie looks to 2023 and talks about what he would like to cover in next year’s...
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...
A Framework for Writing Exercise Objectives
Nov 25 2022
In this week’s bulletin, Charlie talks about what may be useful to consider when developing objectives for your exercises, and...
Disaster Trolls Podcast
Nov 18 2022
Charlie recommends a podcast series he’s been listening to recently and discusses why it is important for business continuity professionals...
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...
BCI World Hybrid 2022: 8 Take-Aways
Nov 04 2022
We’ve been to BCI World Hybrid 2022! In this week’s bulletin, Charlie talks about the highlights from BCI World Hybrid...
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,...
Ten Reasons Why You Should Conduct Short Exercises
Oct 21 2022
In today’s bulletin, Charlie talks about the benefits of short exercises, particularly if you are a beginner at running exercises....
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...
You’re on the slippery slope…
Oct 07 2022
In this week’s bulletin, Charlie talks about how to rebuild your reputation after a mistake, the government being in a...
James Watt of BrewDog – Never go to court?
Sep 30 2022
This week's bulletin looks at reputation, court cases, and how to manage targeted abuse.
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