Latest Security Whitepapers

OneTrust GRC is an integrated risk management platform that delivers a complete, measured view of your business’s risk portfolio providing clear insights to leadership and expediting the execution of routine tasks

Firstly, don’t add a fourth ‘P’ for Panic, but do take the current outbreak and associated risks seriously. We are at the start of something that could impact us in many ways for an indeterminate period of time. A pandemic (we are not quite there just yet) falls under one of the four categories of ‘operational risk’. This is NOT a drill or an exercise, nor does this completely align with typical Business Continuity (BC) exercises or thought processes. However, BC, Incident Response (IR) plans provide elements that will help along the way. Similar to an adverse event a pandemic will evolve in its own way and at its own speed, it is as much about how we prepare and respond that will aid our ability to reduce risks and in this instance potentially survive.

When reputation, revenue, and customer trust is at stake, it’s critical for organisations to be able to detect, respond and manage security incidents effectively. To address the need for comprehensive incident response, IBM Security created the X-Force Incident Response and Intelligence Services (IRIS) team to help organizations proactively manage cyber attacks.

In many organisations there is a separate information security team that deals with all things relating to security. This team is responsible for designing and implementing all the controls needed to protect the organization, and for managing all major security incidents. So why does the service desk need to be involved, and what contribution should… Read More

IT and business executives are tasked with two strategic directives that seem inherently contradictory – they must empower the business and its people to operate at maximum speed while providing, at the same time, the optimum levels of security and risk management. Businesses of all sizes are being constantly challenged to effectively provide secure access… Read More

Why should my organization be concerned about erasing SSDs? Considering that by the end of 2016, 40% of hard-drives will be SSDs, and these SSDs cannot be erased using the same overwriting methods as HDDs, the security risks are even greater for IT professionals. Download our Data Erasure for Enterprise SSD to understand the unique… Read More