The importance of Security Awareness Training

In today’s digitally interconnected world, organizations face an ever-growing array of cyber threats that can compromise sensitive information, disrupt operations, and damage reputation. To combat these threats effectively, organizations must recognize that their employees are both the greatest asset and potential vulnerability. This is where security awareness training plays a pivotal role. In this article,…

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ISO 27001 – What’s new in the latest (2022) version?

The ISO 27001 standard sets the foundation for information security management systems (ISMS) and provides guidelines for organizations to implement effective controls and protect their valuable information assets. In 2018, ISO 27001 underwent significant updates, and now, in 2022, the standard has been further revised to address the evolving cybersecurity landscape. This article aims to…

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Risk management in information security

Information security risk management is the process of identifying vulnerabilities to your information assets that could impact their confidentiality, integrity or availability along with the threats that could exploit those vulnerabilities – together these define the risk.  The next step is to evaluate the risk to determine its severity, usually by considering the impact if…

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Information Assets – what are they and why should I care?

Information security is all about ensuring the availbility, confidentiality and integrity of information assets (the CIA triad), however many organisations attempt the risk assessment phase of an information security programme without having clear visibility of what their information assets are or perhaps they are aware of some but haven’t prioritised nor modelled the threats against…

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