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
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
Amar Singh, CEO and co-founder of Cyber Management Alliance, recently had the pleasure to sit down with Ashish Khanna, information security officer at Dubai Health Authority, to...
20 September 2018
In this day and age, data breaches are no longer a matter of “if” but “when.” Yet, only a third of organisations believe they have adequate resources to manage security...
13 September 2018
CREST president Ian Glover sat down with Amar Singh, CEO and co-founder of Cyber Management Alliance, to talk about his career and pass on some of the insights he has gained over...
6 September 2018
Amar Singh, CEO and co-founder of Cyber Management Alliance, had the pleasure of interviewing Sanjay Khanna, CIO at Rakbank in Dubai, as part of their informative Interview with...
12 August 2018
The large array of solutions that promise to mitigate cyber threats can often confuse even the most astute buyers. Buzzwords like next-generation, Machine Learning and...
31 July 2018
Cyber Management Alliance recently delivered its flagship cybersecurity training course, the NCSC Assured Cyber Incident Planning and Response (CIPR) workshop to UAE's Dubai...
30 July 2018
Today and beyond, the only certainties are death, taxes and cyber-attacks. The challenge, today and forever ahead, is clear. Wait! One more certainty? Regulations. How do you...
24 July 2018
Threat Intelligence is a widely used term now. If you are a cybersecurity professional, you must be familiar with the term even if you don't fully understand the nuances. Threat...
4 July 2018
Rig Exploit Kit has been the most active and successful exploit kit so far. According to Cisco Talos researchers, RIG is unique if compared to other exploit kits as it merges...
26 June 2018
As part of Cyber Management Alliance’s commitment to be continuous in being updated with the CISSP Syllabus changes, which went live on 15 April 2018, we have summarised below the...
15 June 2018
Cyber Management Alliance's preferred IT security solutions and consultancy provider, Advanced Cyber Solutions, have been awarded the Ipswitch Partner of the Year for Northern...
12 May 2018
IT solutions provider Systematic have chosen Ipswitch MOVEit Transfer as their MFT (Managed File Transfer) solution, describing the offering as "ticking all the boxes" after...
10 May 2018
Has there ever been a more confusing data security standard than the PCI-DSS? Even now, thirteen years on from its initial release, a clear understanding of what you need to...
1 May 2018
FIM or File Integrity Monitoring, is without a doubt a highly important layer of defence in any network worth protecting. Required by data security standards such as PCI-DSS and...
30 April 2018
Cyber criminals are always trying to find different ways to hack devices to make money. Now they have another way. Called ‘jackpotting’, hacks attacks ATM machines; but to do...
27 April 2018
Breach Management is equally important. Yes, organisational awareness and Data Governance Framework are important steps in the journey towards GDPR Compliance, however, with...
27 April 2018
Another day, another data breach. This time with MyFitnessPal, a nutrition tracking app that was acquired for US$475million by Under Armour Inc. Facts (may change) As result of...
31 March 2018
Is the board listening? We all know that GDPR will be enforced from 25thMay 2018, but is your board aware of their new privacy obligations? While there is substantial GDPR...
28 February 2018
The FBI estimates that between the years of 2013 and 2017, US businesses were victim to loses of over 5bn USD from phishing attacks alone. It is no surprise then that phishing...
27 February 2018
After facing major and publicly embarrassing data breach in 2017, Doncaster & Bassetlaw Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has chosen wisely in Shieldox as their GDPR readiness...
20 February 2018
There is no shortage of information about the GDPR out there, from the six core principles to data subjects rights to the lawful basis for processing, there is a dizzy number of...
15 February 2018
The GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) is a complex beast at best, with some estimates as low as 15% of organisations being ready for May 25th. Questions and challenges are...
12 February 2018
Where are our sensitive documents? How many copies of them have been created? And who has access to them? Simple questions all information security professionals must ask of...
9 February 2018
If there is one thing that has come to define the very nature of the porous network boundary, it is the use of cloud storage to provide always-on availability to documents. With...
7 February 2018
The guest list of the email security world, SPF (Sender Policy Framework) is an absolute must for any organisation. Easy to implement and maintain, it not only provides security...
30 January 2018
If you want to guarantee the integrity of your email communications you must consider implementing DKIM or DomainKeys Identified Mail. DKIM often gets a bad rap as being too...
18 January 2018
Email is the life blood of business and personal communication, something which any IT administrator would have been reminded of by panicked board members whenever their email...
11 January 2018
Amar Singh, CEO and co-founder of Cyber Management Alliance, sat down with Jay Bavisi, founder and CEO of EC Council to find out more about his early career, how he started EC...
9 January 2018
Amar Singh, CEO and co-founder of Cyber Management Alliance, industry influencer and cyber security specialist, and Chair of ISACA’s UK Security Advisory Group, recently discussed...
9 December 2017
Cyber Management Alliance headed to the city of Brussels in Belgium on 13th November 2017 to host their inaugural European Wisdom of Crowds event. Amar Singh and the CMA team...
8 December 2017
Amar Singh, CEO and co-founder of Cyber Management Alliance, had the pleasure of talking to Jack Daniel from Tenable Network Security and co-founder of BSides Security, about how...
6 December 2017