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Ensure your cyber-risk management matches minimum UK government guidelines
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Get an independent, professionally executed cyber security risk assessment to identify key risk areas
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Receive advice on the most appropriate remediation steps for you to take to achieve a cyber secure business future.
In Churchill's words: ACTION THIS DAY!
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Ignoring the cyber threat - especially if you think that someone else is dealing with it - could be the worst decision that you ever make. The fact is, cybercrime is on the rise. Just because you don't know whether your system is healthy and resilient thanks to robust cyber defences does not stop the hackers and rogue employees from costing your business serious amounts of money - and possibly inflicting huge damage to your reputation that could affect your ability to continue trading (don't laugh: it happens!).
Every minute of every day, determined efforts are being made by hackers seeking to gain access to your confidential data.The UK's 2010 National Security Strategy identified Cyberattacks as one of the four highest-priority risks faced by the UK. HM Government claims cybercrime costs the UK economy £27 billion a year. That’s the equivalent of building one of Boris Johnson’s Thames Estuary airports every twelve months.
PwC's Information Security Breaches Survey 2012 found that 93% of large corporations and 76% of small businesses had a cyber security breach in 2012. The cost is estimated between £110,000-250,000 for large businesses and £15,000-30,000 for smaller ones. ‘Social Engineering’ is increasingly the weakest link.
The news headlines speak for themselves.
What Action can you take?
We all know that there's a growing problem, but what is the solution? - And more importantly, whose opinion can you trust?
Wouldn't't it be better to base your cyber security policy and action plans on a thorough and expertly conducted risk assessment?
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What the IT Governance Cyber Security Risk Assessment Service consist of
Our expert risk assessors recognise that today's attacks are multi-level and multi-channel by default and, in up to two days on your site with you and your team, we will examine each of the UK Government's 10 risk areas in detail. These are:
1. Board-led Information Risk Management Regime
12% of the worst security breaches were partly caused by senior management giving insufficient
priority to security.
26% of respondents haven’t briefed their board on security risks in the last year (and 19% have never done so).
2. Secure Home and Mobile Working
8% of large and 33% of small organisations haven’t taken any steps to mitigate the risks associated with staff using smartphones or tablets.
3. User Education and Awareness
54% of organisations see their own staff and contractors as a greater threat to data security and computer systems than outside attack.
42% of large organisations don’t provide any ongoing security awareness training to their staff (and 10% don’t even brief staff on induction).
4. User Privilege Management
36% of the worst security breaches in the year were caused by inadvertent human error (and a further 10% by deliberate misuse of systems by staff).
5. Removable Media Controls
Only 50% of large organisations have implemented mobile device management.
Only 29% of small organisations and 23% of large organisations have trained staff on the threats associated with mobile devices.
6. Activity Monitoring
85% of breaches took weeks to discover.
20% of organisations are unsure whether or not their organisation has been attacked.
7. Secure Configurations
79% of hacked organisations were victims of opportunistic attacks.
96% of attacks were not highly difficult.
8. Malware Protection
41% of small businesses and 47% of large businesses suffered a data breach as a result of infection by viruses or malicious software.
28% of organisations say that virus infection or malicious software has had serious or very serious disruptive impact on the organisation.
9. Network Security
98% of breaches involved external agents.
81% of breaches involved hacking.
10. Incident Management
92% of incidents were discovered by third parties.
76% of small and 91% of large organisations had a malicious security incident last year.
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