We publish weekly updates from the business continuity world, covering recent news items or reflecting on our travels and experiences with clients.
Charlie addresses topics from a Business Continuity perspective and you might be surprised how much of today’s news relates to BC! Providing valuable insight, Charlie raises critical questions which will surely encourage you to reconsider your Business Continuity plans.
In today’s bulletin, Charlie gives an insight into wiper attacks and how these differ from traditional ransomware cyber attacks, and advises how organisations can protect themselves from these attacks. This week, I have been working on a case study of the Stryker Corporation cyber attack, which was of interest to me as it is collateral damage from the
In today’s bulletin, Charlie discusses the cyber incident on the Polish Grid last December, and gives an insight into the similarities to recent attacks in Ukraine. I have wanted to research and write about this event for some time, and this week seems ideal. Aside from the attacks on the Ukrainian Grid in 2015 and 2016, this is
In today’s bulletin, Charlie discusses how to manage a cyber attack involving a supplier and explains the importance of planning for a potential issue. This week I was on site with a client. On Monday we conducted a half-day training session for their Silver Team and then their Gold Team, while on Tuesday, led by our consultant Stuart,
In today’s bulletin, Charlie gives an insight into the latest trends in ransomware data and how this has changed in the last few years. It has been three years since I published a bulletin on the facts and figures of cyber ransomware attacks, and I thought I would look at what the latest data says, especially around: The percentage of
In today’s bulletin, Charlie revisits the recent Co-op cyber attack and provides a useful timeline of events to highlight the progress of the incident. This week, I thought I would go back to cyber, as for the last two weeks I have been delivering my cyber course – firstly as a public course, and secondly as a private course for
In this week’s bulletin, Charlie continues his bulletin from 2022 on whether cyber attacks have killed people, and looks at the impacts of a cyber attack in the healthcare sector. In August 2022, I wrote the following bulletin ‘Have Cyber Attacks Killed People’ which looked at possible incidents which might have caused deaths. It looked at direct attacks such as