Cybersecurity remains a fast-evolving ecosystem that presents new threats to enterprises every day with hackers becoming increasingly innovative in their attempts to break into corporate networks and steal valuable data. As such, cybersecurity start-ups are playing an even more critical…
As with employee or customer identity management, the life cycle approach of connected objects within the Internet of Things (IoT) makes it possible to address all security issues. This article presents the key elements of this methodology and the major…
Organisations are deploying agile operating models and new ways of working in order to facilitate IS projects and build better products. Therefore, cybersecurity has to be taken into account into these new methods. What does cybersecurity mean in an agile…
As we’ve seen in the previous article, a serious consideration of "permissions" (also known as rights, authorizations, roles, and access profiles) should significantly reduce the risk of fraud and human error, and contribute to the company’s compliance with relevant legislation.…
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) applications support businesses’ most critical processes and workflows. As such, it carries many inherent risks—the main ones being internal fraud and human error. And statutory auditors, internal controllers, and auditors, are only too well aware of…
Recent major cyberattacks, especially global destructive ones such as WannaCry and NotPetya in 2017, but also targeted ones, have shown how significantly business activities can be disrupted for affected organisations, resulting in huge financial losses. Consequently, organisations are looking for…
Cybersecurity remains a fast-evolving ecosystem that presents new threats to enterprises every day with hackers becoming increasingly innovative in their attempts to break into corporate networks and steal valuable data. As such, cybersecurity start-ups are playing an even more critical…
>>FOCUS Last year, the National Health Service England (NHS) faced its most important cybersecurity crisis due to the Wannacry ransomware attack. In October 2017, the National Audit Office (NAO) published a report showing that at least 34% of trusts in…
>>Editorial: What to remember from 2017? Industrial Control Systems (ICS) are complex systems that aim to control industrial processes. ICS can be found in several sectors: energy, nuclear, transport, chemistry… In brief these systems control many of the critical productive assets…
On July 6, 2016, the NIS (Network and Information Security) directive went into effect. With only a short time to go until the deadline for transposition (May 9, 2018), discussions about the directive are picking up steam. But what exactly…
