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
Would you believe IBM’s claim that half of all email traffic worldwide may be malicious!? (IBM Threat Intelligence Index 2017). Even the UK’s tax collector, HMRC, found themselves...
5 December 2017
Not wishing to cause alarm but the CISSP exam is six hours long and has a total of 250 multiple choice questions. It is an exercise not only for your brain and thoughtful risk...
5 December 2017
With just 7 days to until your CISSP exam, ideally you should have covered the entire CISSP syllabus from the official ISC2 CISSP book. On top of that, if you’ve solved at least...
27 November 2017
Amar Singh, CEO and co-founder of Cyber Management Alliance, had the pleasure of chatting with Hariprasad Chede, Vice President of ISACA UAE Chapter and CISO in the finance...
27 November 2017
Cyber Management Alliance were back at The Belfry in Warwickshire on 17th and 18th October 2017 hosting their second live Wisdom of Crowds event. Amar Singh and the team welcomed...
20 November 2017
Deciding to take the plunge and study for your CISSP qualification can be a big step. It’s often been a few years since they were a student for some who take this decision and...
7 November 2017
Steve Bongardt, retired FBI agent, took time out recently to talk to Amar Singh from Cyber Management Alliance as part of their exclusive Insights With Cyber Leaders series. Steve...
1 November 2017
Cyber Management Alliance's Amar Singh, himself a global CISO, had the pleasure recently to talk to Taiye Lambo, former CISO for Atlanta, about his early career in IT, moving from...
2 October 2017
Amar Singh, CEO, founder of Cyber Management Alliance and himself a global CISO, took the opportunity to discuss cyber security and information management with Adel Al Hasani,...
28 September 2017
Patrik Heuri, former Global Head of Information Risk at HSBC Private Bank spoke to Amar Singh, CEO and co-founder of Cyber Management Alliance, about his journey in information...
26 September 2017
Less than a year away before the GDPR – General Data Protection Regulation – comes into force and it is finally hitting the headlines. But what does it mean to you? Well,...
24 August 2017
Since 1998, the UK’s Data Protection Act has been looking after your personal data, your digital identity but as of May 2018, it will be consigned to the scrap heap due to the...
24 August 2017
It’s a question that gets asked regularly; “Which IT security solution will help me with the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation?” Well, answering that question isn’t so...
24 August 2017
The focus on the GDPR over the last year has centred on the penalties that could be incurred if not compliant. Indeed, it could be said that the General Data Protection Regulation...
24 August 2017
It’s not uncommon in political circles to hear the battle cry of ‘fake news’; be it against misunderstanding, erring from the truth, unfair bias and spin. On a sliding scale from...
24 August 2017
Cyber Management Alliance recently worked with equity management firm, Oldfield Partners LLP in helping them through their journey to ISO 27001 Certification. Oldfield Partners...
3 August 2017
Cyber Management Alliance (CMA) and StarLink partnered recently to provide CMA’s GCHQ Certified Cyber Incident Planning & Response (CIPR) training to delegates at the Marriott...
2 August 2017
