by Alex W. | Sep 25, 2022 | Crime, Cybersecurity, Organisations, Privacy
People make mistakes or… Why the ‘Pokemon’ approach has to stop ‘I’ve been watching the unfolding disaster for Optus and more importantly its customers over the last few days. My initial thoughts are that this seems to be a failure of governance rather...
by Alex W. | Nov 28, 2021 | Cybersecurity, Government large and small, Organisations
Critical Infrastructure Protection Recent updates to the Security of Critical Infrastructure (SOCI) Act broaden the definitions of critical infrastructure. The federal Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security (PJCIS) made fourteen recommendations in...
by Alex W. | Nov 16, 2021 | Organisations, Practical, Resilience
Risk Appetite Statements Why are good risk appetite statements so hard to find? or Oils ain’t Oils and nor are Risk Appetite Statements. It’s probably uncontroversial to say that risk appetite statements are better practice for well run organisations. They are...
by Alex W. | Mar 4, 2021 | Government large and small, management and leadership, Organisations, Podcasts - Resilience Outcomes, Practical, Resilience
Thanks to John Bigelow of the ASIAL Insider podcast for the conversation about the ways security managers and executives can use behavioural economics to drive positive security outcomes in their organisations. You can listen to the episode...
by Alex W. | Jun 5, 2018 | Organisations, Privacy
Update – GDPR has arrived On 25 May 2018, GDPR came into force. Any company that does business with EU members needs to be in full compliance with the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). This requires them to take specific steps to more securely...
by Alex W. | Feb 2, 2018 | Cybersecurity, management and leadership, Organisations, Resilience
A speech given by Alex Webling to the opening of Z-CERT, the Hague, Netherlands, January 2018 Building better cyber security strategy in organisations The opening of Z-CERT is an important development in the protection of the Netherland’s health care system. I...
by Alex W. | Sep 19, 2016 | Cybersecurity, Quirky
Poodle Vulnerability Padding Oracle On Downgraded Legacy Encryption (POODLE) The poodle vulnerability has been around as an exploit since 2014.It led to an attack which led to completely disabling SSL 3.0 on the client and server-side to prevent hackers from making...
by Alex W. | Jun 17, 2016 | Organisations, Resilience
Enterprise Security and the tragedy of Orlando On hearing about the horrific events last weekend in Florida USA, I was saddened first and then struck by the bitter irony that these murders occurred in Orlando. Maybe it’s just me, but I was reminded that the magical...
by Alex W. | Mar 23, 2016 | management and leadership, Organisations, Practical, Resilience
Have you ever wondered why on your electricity bill there is a representation of your household’s usage against the average 2, 3 or 4-person household telling you whether you are over or under? How does it make you feel? The term behavioural economics has been around...
by Alex W. | Jan 31, 2016 | Cybersecurity, Organisations
Cyber-Resilience Cyber-Resilience in the Information Age The Global Resilience Collaborative held a curated seminar at Parliament House in Queensland. Alex Webling gave a speech on Cyber-Resilience to the assembled audience The Speech posted on Youtube. The video is...
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