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Mergers, acquisitions and de-mergers creates various challenges, risks and responsibilities that the organisation can be held accountable for.

Grant Thornton’s summer 2018 cyber security survey of Channel Islands organisations produced some intriguing and in some cases surprising results

We continue to hear sorry tales of companies’ systems being hacked: as I write this, the latest big story (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/06/13/dixons_carphone_breach/) is Dixons Carphone experiencing a hack involving 5.9 million payment cards and over a million personal data records.

For those of you who have been following this series so far, we now reach our final top tip in our Cyber Security series, which is Security Governance.

Guernsey Cyber Security Review

For our penultimate top tip I would like to discuss incident response plans.

Security assessments can take many different forms and it is important for the organisation to understand them, the differences between them and what they will deliver in terms of value to supporting the Cyber Security strategy.

It is often said that the human element is usually the weakest point for security. Indeed, from most of the stories we hear about and those we see in the media, there is a human element at the heart of the data breach or security issue.

Risk is an inherent part of doing business. For any organisation to operate successfully and succeed in meeting its objectives it needs to address risk and respond proportionately and appropriately to a level which is consistent with its risk appetite. Failure to identify and manage risk can lead to business failure.

Following on in our series of Cyber Security top tips, we wanted to discuss the merits of adopting an Information Security Framework.

Board Awareness and Responsibility - don't get caught out like TalkTalk

Information is one of the most valuable assets that any organisation holds. As seen in the local media recently, Channel Island organisations are not immune to attack from those seeking to steal data or other valuable assets.