Cybersecurity Blog

Selecting the right type of cyber incident response training has never been this important. No organisation today is exempt from being vulnerable to cyber-attacks, which makes...
18 June 2020
You can never be too prepared when it comes to cybersecurity and data privacy. For the health of your business, it is essential to continuously test your cyber incident response...
15 June 2020
Cyber Management Alliance, the global frontrunner in cyber crisis management and training, is delighted to announce that its highly popular course, Cyber Incident Planning &...
2 June 2020
In any discussion on cyber incident response & resilience, it is imperative to deliberate upon the subject of threat actors. After all, if you can’t identify who could potentially...
27 May 2020
We reviewed SAMA, QCB & NESA Regulations on Business Continuity Planning, Testing & Cyber crisis tabletop exercises and created an easy reference for you. We will be updating this...
24 May 2020
A cyber incident response plan is a straightforward document that helps you effectively and efficiently respond to and manage cybersecurity incidents. It outlines the incident...
22 May 2020
To discuss cyber incident response with the CEO, you must be familiar with ISO 27001, NIST's CSF, PCI-DSS NCSC'S Cyber Assessment Framework and other regulations and standards...
11 May 2020
Cyber incident response training is an important investment for today's business leaders. It's crucial that executive and management professionals throughout the organisation...
9 May 2020
One often tends to get entangled in the word ‘tabletop’ when one thinks of conducting a cyber tabletop exercise for their organisation. It is natural to think of this exercise as...
8 May 2020
We are often asked about the benefits of internal cyber incident response training over our public or online training. This blog talks of the advantages of running an internal...
7 May 2020
In this blog, I share why our clients who do ISO 27001 audits are including cyber attack tabletop exercises audits in their audit schedules.
6 May 2020
To ensure some sense of order when you are attacked, start by following the cyber incident response checklist.
5 May 2020
This is a very logical question for any data and cybersecurity professional looking to upgrade their professional credentials with the right certification. In this blog, we aim...
4 May 2020
If you’re one of those smart business executives who knows how important a cybersecurity tabletop exercise for their organisation is, you’ve won half the battle! The other half in...
2 May 2020
Your organisation may have a cyber incident response plan that it can fall back upon in case of a crisis, but you need to ensure it's fit-for-purpose. We show you how to achieve...
1 May 2020
Most online cybersecurity training programmes appear to skip over the important topic of Cyber Kill Chain.
30 April 2020
Cyber table top exercises are on the radar for all businesses that understand the importance of cybersecurity today. Find out what makes a normal cyber response test a really good...
21 April 2020
How to make the cybersecurity checklist PDF work for your organisation?
8 April 2020
You are under a cyber-attack. What’s the first thing that comes to mind?
3 April 2020
What is most challenging about building a strong cybersecurity team?
30 March 2020
Cyber Table Top Exercises help you test and evaluate the efficacy of your well-laid plans in a real-world situation. You have to ask yourself, when your organisation is under a...
27 March 2020
What is your advice to CISOs in the UAE?
26 March 2020
Good security practices and skills are just non-negotiable and because nobody seems to be talking about it, we simply had to.
25 March 2020
If you could outsource one security function – which one would it be?
24 March 2020
Cyber Management Alliance just concluded another successful event in Dubai for its vast community of cyber leaders and Infosec experts in the UAE. The exclusive invitation-only...
20 March 2020
How does one build a truly cyber-resilient business?
20 March 2020
The expectation - that security behaviours will change if your employees know what they need to do and if they know their firm’s security policies - is flawed. Knowledge is just a...
17 March 2020
What is the importance of automation in incident response?
16 March 2020
With the increasing frequency of business-impacting cyber crises, top executives of organisations are taking notice and rushing to ensure that they have cyber incident response...
6 March 2020
Legislation in the CISSP exam, in general, is not specific to any country. The exam does, however, expect you to know, at least at the definition/purpose level, the common...
6 March 2020
Should the Security Operations Centre or SOC be in-house, outsourced or hybrid?
14 February 2020
How important are automation & orchestration in Incident Response? India’s top CISOs answer that question at the Mumbai Wisdom of Crowds event
11 February 2020
Gathering insights, opinions and expertise from top cyber professionals in the world is one of the key objectives behind Cyber Management Alliance’s Wisdom of Crowds events.
7 February 2020
How important is email resiliency? India’s top CISOs answer that question!
3 February 2020
India’s top CISOs answered this most critical question at the Mumbai Wisdom of Crowds event in May
30 January 2020
Mandar Kulkarni, the CISO of Grasim Industries, spoke to Cyber Management Alliance at the Wisdom of Crowds event, held in Mumbai on May 30, 2019.
30 January 2020
These concepts are from CISSP - Domain -3 Security Engineering.
28 January 2020
Cybersecurity professionals create collective wisdom on cyber resilience at Wisdom Crowds in Bengaluru
27 January 2020
Many organisations and security teams find it easy to blame the human factor in the security value chain. It’s become quite acceptable to say that humans are the weakest line of...
23 January 2020
33.5% of Indian firms were hit by a cyber-attack in 2018. Not only is this figure alarmingly high, it also makes India the third most-attacked country as per a survey conducted by...
14 January 2020
The world of modern cybersecurity has unfortunately been made more complicated than it really needs to be. Every day, we hear about new solutions that are based on the most modern...
5 December 2019
We live in a world that’s hard to imagine without, email. As great, quick and useful as email is, it remains , one of the easiest attack vectors that cyber criminals use to target...
3 December 2019
Cyber Management Alliance goes to the Philippines for the first IT Security Asia Conference; takes its flagship CIPR training to the Far East.
28 November 2019
Wisdom of Crowds just concluded another one of its super-successful events in London’s Sofitel Piccadilly on November 13, 2019.
20 November 2019
Cyber Management Alliance just concluded one of its most vibrant and successful events yet – the bi-annual Wisdom of Crowds in Dubai, held this year on October 3, 2019.
19 November 2019
A breach is an inevitability and this blog is not about slamming Capital One. Instead, we try to provide some tangible guidance. Our network of practitioners Krisztian Kenderesi,...
4 August 2019
Amar Singh, CEO and co-founder of Cyber Management Alliance, took time out with Steve Abbott, CEO at DocAuthority, to find out more about his non-traditional journey to where he...
7 March 2019
Cyber Management Alliance, executive interview with Steve Abbott, CEO at DocAuthority. Steve answered our questions with regards to data protection, unstructured data, data...
7 March 2019
This article will support you in learning a few techniques to identify the important topics for your CISSP exam.
5 February 2019
Please only read this blog if you are concerned about privacy, confidentiality and security of your data stored in the Cloud.
24 January 2019