In short. A defensible cyber security budget starts with a risk assessment, not last year’s figures or a vendor’s shopping list. Identify your most valuable assets and the threats most likely to hit them, then spread spend across people, process and technology so every pound maps to a business risk you can explain to the board. A defensible cyber security…
In short. Boards and technical teams want the same thing, a protected business, but talk past each other. Report cyber risk in business terms: link each vulnerability to an impact, choose a few metrics that show trend, answer “so what?” every time, and bring evidence from testing rather than assurances. Technical teams and boards have the same objective when it…
Which cyber security obligations apply to a UK small business (UK GDPR, PECR, PCI DSS, Cyber Essentials, sector regulators), what each actually requires, and a ten-point checklist of what to have in place and be able to evidence.
IASME Cyber Assurance builds on Cyber Essentials to cover governance, risk, people and resilience. Level 1 is a verified self-assessment renewed annually; Level 2 is an independent audit valid for three years. Which one you need, and how it compares with ISO 27001.
