Towards the end of last year, as you may remember, a huge data breach at Marriott International was uncovered. In 2014, hackers got into the Starwood hotel reservation system (later taken over by Marriott International) and over a 4-year period stole the data of up to...
At the end of last year, the Breach Level Index reported that 4.5 billion records were compromised worldwide in the first half of 2018 (as a result of 945 data breaches). That represents a massive increase of 133% compared with the same period in 2017. How to limit...
OK… let’s do a thought experiment. If I say “nutritious food” what comes to mind? Salads, lean meat, fish, fruit, vegetables? What about chips? Chips are fine every now and then, but would you eat them every night and expect to reach your health goals? Probably not!...
Some people might say that cyber breaches are becoming more frequent, but we just think that we’re actually becoming more aware of them. This year alone there has been hacks at Quora, Uber, Amazon, Facebook, Marriott, FIFA, Google+, British Airways, T-Mobile… the list...
This has been a particularly exciting week for all of us here as Bruce’s book Rethinking the human factor has hit the shelves! Hard copies arrived at our offices yesterday (to much fanfare) and paperbacks and the Kindle version are available on Amazon. It’s Bruce’s...
In this blog post which originally appeared in Infosecurity Magazine in the lead up to InfoSecurity Europe, our founder, Bruce Hallas, explains the intricate relationship between security behaviour and security culture, and discusses how we must get past the notion of...
