The recent global ransomware attack which has a major impact on the NHS appears to have exploited a vulnerability in the operating system of many computers across the I.T estate, this was exacerbated by the continued widespread use of Windows…
Identity Verification is easy in person. Ask for a photo ID and then check the person against their photo ID – but over the phone and online, it becomes more difficult. Fraud Prevention is designed to help minimise the risk…
ISO 27001 Certification has many benefits, time with external auditors can be well spent testing the effectiveness of your Information Security Management System. However, the prospect of increasing the length of an external audit is not likely to be met…
Introduction Introducing any standard to any organisation is always a challenging task. Introducing an Information Security standard to a start-up can be even more tricky. Small size companies, especially start-ups are often at the stage where procedures not robust, well…
Perhaps the most important thing about business continuity management is testing your plans, but there’s never a good time to ‘pull the plug’. Could your annual leave provide at least one test scenario? The objective of business continuity is the continuity of…
RiskBriefing.co.uk – the Legal, Guidance & Compliance news site from Assent has launched a weekly Risk Digest service collating content from trusted sources around the web. The weekly post on www.riskbriefing.co.uk takes advantage of our team’s hard work to monitor news related…
Over the first weekend of April 2016 news began to emerge of another data leak. However this one seemed different, the media were already reporting it as the biggest data leak in history and there appeared to be implications for…
Risk Management firm Assent have announced the public launch of Risk Assist, a service desk that provides support to companies on a variety of issues including information security, health & safety, the environment and quality management. Assent Director Robert Clements…
