It seems that many of you found my previous post of interest, so as promised, here’s the second part. But first, let’s all have a look at this 2min 48s video: Security Threats by the Numbers from the Cisco 2013 Annual Security Report. Unsurprisingly, the Trustwave GSR highlights that e-commerce sites were the most targeted asset, accounting for 48%…
It’s that time of year again where we try to make sense of all the new research and statistics. Today, I give you the Trustwave 2013 Global Security Report which analyses 400 data breach investigations (compared to 300 in 2011) across 29 countries (compared to 18 in 2011). Unsurprisingly, 96% of the breaches involved the theft of customer…
Yesterday, an article on CBS Money Watch caught my eye: Businesses deluded about threat of cyber-attack. The article was a short introduction to a recent survey conducted by Deloitte. And isn’t it spooky that the same old things keep cropping up everywhere?… Unsurprisingly, the Deloitte report highlights that 88% of the businesses surveyed believe that they are not really…
Sometimes, despite our best endeavours, things just don’t work out the way we planned… You know the feeling: you think you have it all under control, you think you’ve engaged with the right people, you have buy in from those who matter, the right culture is in place, you’re not struggling for investement and bang!…
In one of my February posts, I wrote about incident response and the importance of addressing the media in a timely manner. Whilst the draft NIST report SP 800-61 gives really good guidelines on the positive aspects of fully and effectively communicating important information to the public, I feel there is some mileage to be had by exploring the use of social media when tackling incident
It is always difficult to secure information security investments and we all know that having real business metrics always helps. One useful method is to link infosec to fraud and in this post I’d like to examine this connection further. Lucky for me, the UK National Fraud Authority released their 2012 Annual Fraud Indicator in…
In its recent Annual Fraud Indicator, the National Fraud Authority highlighted that mass marketing fraud against individuals cost the UK economy £3.5 billion in 2011, that is ten time more than the cost of plastic card fraud in the same year, or equivalent to the total fraud losses incurred by the financial services sector in…
I’ve been in financial services for more than 20 years, and in that time, I have been fortunate enough to experience a variety of interesting jobs, from directing large change programmes, launching new products/ services to managing process re-engineering consultancy teams. I am currently head of payment security at Barclaycard, where I oversee the security…
