The COVID-19 pandemic changed our world and the way businesses operate dramatically. It has also brought about a diametrical change in the way education is delivered and accessed....
5 April 2022
Global spending on cloud services is expected to rise to $482 billion in 2022, up from $313 billion in 2020. And by 2028, the market will be worth well over $1,250 billion. As...
24 February 2022
All organisations with an online presence are vulnerable to a variety of cyber threats. Data breaches are one of the most prominent of these threats today. It’s a vulnerability...
15 February 2022
While a career in IT auditing can be extremely lucrative, it can also be very busy. With back-to-back meetings and calls, it's definitely not an easy job. Apart from the fact that...
9 February 2022
Facebook had an outage in October 2021. And everyone heard about it. Even those who were living under a rock. Because, chances are, regardless of your location, you use Facebook...
4 February 2022
IT auditing is considered one of the most lucrative streams within auditing. This is because to be an IT auditor one requires specialized knowledge. There is also a lack of enough...
2 February 2022
The accounting sector is becoming increasingly reliant on information technology (IT). As a result, if you're interested in both auditing and IT, pursuing a career in IT auditing...
31 January 2022
Certified Information Systems Auditor or CISA refers to a designation issued by the Information Systems Audit and Control Association (ISACA). CISA certification is the standard...
28 January 2022
Technology has made healthcare more effective than ever and its influence will only become more prominent in the years to come. Tech innovations in medicine will lead to more...
26 January 2022
Cybersecurity has become one of the most prominent and growing concerns for businesses and commercial establishments everywhere, with academic online paper writing services like ...
22 January 2022
The e-commerce space is so competitive today that there are literally thousands of parameters on which your business is constantly being judged. But there are two conditions that...
20 January 2022
Virtually everything in the modern business world is going digital. The rise of electronic signatures, or e-signatures, has enabled processes that were previously only possible...
23 December 2021
Ransomware tabletop exercises enable you to test whether your business is equipped to deal with a ransomware attack and mitigate its impact. If you want to know why this is...
25 November 2021
Agility, scale and resilience are just some of the reasons why businesses across the globe are moving to cloud environments. While initially the cloud may have become popular...
25 November 2021
Cybersecurity is one of the most searched subjects online and for good reason – it’s an ever-evolving field with multiple new problems emerging every day. Fortunately, experts in...
17 November 2021
It is a well-known fact that developers are responsible for creating and releasing new applications and platforms. They are also responsible for debugging software and, when...
17 November 2021
The SolarWinds cyber-attack has been given many adjectives – historic, unprecedented, massive and sophisticated to name a few. What makes this attack unlike any other we’ve seen...
16 November 2021
The field of cybersecurity is growing rapidly, and the global market is expected to reach $354.4 billion by 2026. As the industry evolves and expands, jobs in the field are...
11 November 2021
The SolarWinds hack, also now widely known as Solorigate, is the most unprecedented cybersecurity breach till date & the reason it’s considered a cyber intrusion like no other is...
9 November 2021
Have you heard of 3D secure authentication being talked of extensively without much of a clue about what it is? As a shopper, you may have read that you should look to 3D Secure...
6 November 2021
As businesses across the world undergo rapid digital transformation, business agility has been emerging as a primary concern for those who wish to stay ahead of the competition....
28 October 2021
Transportation and logistics comprise one of the most important systems and industries in the world. However, because it is so heavily dependent on technology, it is also one of...
19 October 2021
Savola Foods, the Saudi Arabia-based food brand giant, has recently joined other global industry leaders like Google, Formula One, Sony, Citibank and AstraZeneca in ramping up its...
12 October 2021
Cybersecurity awareness month is celebrated every October but for us at Cyber Management Alliance, every day is cybersecurity awareness day! In that spirit, we cover some of the...
11 October 2021
Challenges of the cybersecurity industry are as dynamic as the field itself. The cybersecurity landscape is ever-changing as new technologies emerge and transform businesses'...
23 September 2021
The Building & Optimising Incident Response Playbooks Course, the third from CM-Alliance to achieve the NCSC certification, focusses on creation of NIST-compliant Playbooks
22 July 2021
“Is Zoom safe? Is Zoom going to compromise our cybersecurity?" These are some of the questions asked by our clients and prospects about the video conferencing service. In this...
17 June 2021
It is likely that you have heard of a virtual private network, at least in passing, before. As the pandemic continues, the growing threat of cyber-attacks has further popularized...
10 June 2021
Conducting regular security incident response tabletop exercises is the only non-destructive way to prepare your organisation for ransomware or other types of cyber attacks. Given...
14 May 2021
Cyber-attacks are more rampant today than ever before. Attacks like the SolarWinds hack prove that even the biggest and strongest organisations in terms of cyber security measures...
12 May 2021
Cybersecurity is a huge concern for small to medium businesses. Cybersecurity threats have amplified in 2021 since the advent of the COVID-19 pandemic and the ensuing ‘Work from...
11 May 2021
WordPress, one of the most popular platforms for creating websites, has been targeted due to a security vulnerability that hackers discovered in a common plugin used with the...
6 May 2021
Artificial intelligence endeavours to simulate human intelligence. It has immense potential in cybersecurity. If harnessed correctly, Artificial Intelligence or AI systems can be...
4 May 2021
What exactly is cybersecurity and why does cyber security matter to every person and company? We start by providing an easy to read answer in this blog, the first on many on this...
30 April 2021
Given the complex cybersecurity challenges created by the Covid-19 pandemic, it has become imperative for organisations to regularly test their cyber resilience, security...
27 April 2021
Like many industries, the supply chain sector is in the midst of a digital transformation — from automation of tasks to the Internet of Things streamlining operations. However,...
22 April 2021
Aster Housing regularly conducts annual cybersecurity audits. However, this time around, it chose to host a Cyber Crisis Tabletop Exercise (CCTE) with Cyber Management Alliance...
20 April 2021
Cyber tabletop exercises are the flavour of the season in the world of IT security. The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed vulnerabilities in the security infrastructure of businesses...
15 April 2021
Who should read this? Anybody and everybody interested in managing privileged users, anyone looking to buy a PAM solution or anyone looking to renew their existing Privileged...
31 March 2021
Cyber Management Alliance has recently added some of the world's most prestigious organisations including Google, Formula One, Sony, BAE Systems, Citibank, AstraZeneca, Unilever,...
31 March 2021
In the pandemic-stricken global scenario, we are constantly being alerted to the rising dangers and looming threats of cyber-crime. What the easyJet cyber-attack teaches us, then,...
30 March 2021
Bharti Airtel, India's 2nd largest telecommunications company with operations in 18 countries across Asia and Africa, recently organised an exclusive private internal CIPR...
25 March 2021
Over 300 staff members of the NHS attended CM-Alliance’s flagship, NCSC-Certified Cyber Incident Planning and Response training, over a course of three months.
16 March 2021
Recently, 15 local councils of Essex County underwent the NCSC-certified training to bolster their overall security posture by raising staff awareness and refreshing their...
9 March 2021
It is often assumed that cybersecurity training and awareness is a matter of concern for only large businesses and enterprises as they are more vulnerable to threats and have more...
29 October 2020
Organisations that are reviewing their cyber incident response plans or even those that are looking to improve their cybersecurity maturity need to focus on identifying their...
27 October 2020
How customer/citizen data is processed and used is a highly regulated subject in many parts of the world. The GDPR is perhaps the most prominent and well-known example of data...
22 October 2020
There is no such thing as an "unhackable" system. In general, cybersecurity can be described as ensuring that there is no unauthorised access to an enterprise’s network, to...
13 October 2020
The Travelex cyber-attack (just like many others) contains overwhelming lessons about cyber incident response and cyber crisis management for those who wish to seek them out. We...
7 October 2020
