The IT Security Infrastructure Blog

Written by John Noble CBE, Advisory Board member  In the final instalment of this blog (read part two here or part one here), Reliance acsn Advisory Board Director John Noble CBE shares his experience of working with NHS Digital and government bodies to secure the NHS against cyber attack – and how the COVID-19 pandemic has made [...]

Written by John Noble CBE, Advisory Board member  In the second instalment of this blog (read part 1 here), Reliance acsn Advisory Board member John Noble CBE shares his experience of working with NHS Digital and government bodies, and explores the consequences of the additional pressure it has come under as a result of the [...]

Written by John Noble CBE, Advisory Board member  Reliance acsn Advisory Board member John Noble CBE has extensive experience of the work of NHS Digital in defending the nation’s treasured healthcare resources. In this three-part blog, he shares both the challenges and the advances, against the backdrop of the COVID-19 pandemic. It was during a [...]

This video replay is from the RELIANCE ACSN WEBINAR held on Thursday, 11th June 2020. The pandemic and the subsequent lockdown have caused all of us to change the way we work. The radical shift to home working has expanded and reshaped enterprises’ remote networks; this has become the ‘New Normal’ and, indeed, for law [...]

Responsibility for managing cyber risk cannot be outsourced; law firm leaders must have ‘skin in the game’, argues Reliance acsn CEO Martin Sutherland. llen Grubman, the most powerful lawyer in the music business, once told Vanity Fair: “I’m a big believer that success in business is 75 percent luck, 25 percent brains.” […]

The current pandemic has changed the way we work, and reinforced our dependence on technology. But it has also sent cyber security risk levels skyward. So what can you do to shield your organisation’s business continuity and operations from the fallout, going forward? Reliance acsn and Burges Salmon have brought together expert speakers to explore [...]

RELIANCE ACSN WEBINAR, Thursday, 11th June 2020, 10 a.m. – 11 a.m. BST The pandemic and the subsequent lockdown have caused all of us to change the way we work. The radical shift to home working has expanded and reshaped enterprises’ remote networks; this has become the ‘New Normal’ and, indeed, for law firms and [...]

Written by Alex Miller, Penetration Tester  During lockdown IT teams across the UK have been working extremely hard to support businesses, enabling them to transform and continue to serve the public in these uncertain times. From online supermarket Ocado adjusting to their 10 fold increase in demand to all the office-based businesses moving office equipment [...]

Written by Robin Vann, Chief Solutions Officer  I’m often asked about my approach to being secure, and my overarching view is that whilst I have a right to expect technology to support me in this respect, I’ll never outsource my responsibility to keep myself secure to a technical control – the brain is better than [...]

How have you been managing to work from home during the Covid-19 pandemic? Could you make this time easier?   ​Join the City of London Police's Cyber Griffin team and guests, including Reliance acsn's Vice Chairman Tarquin Foliss OBE, as they look at how people have adapted to working from home, and the effect it [...]

Date: Friday 1st May Time: 14.00-14.30 BST Phishing and malware attacks are on the increase, and with the majority of the workforce now adopting remote working, your employees are more likely to become an easy target. In this webinar, we’ll discuss the most effective defence: a robust approach to ensuring your security controls, education and [...]

COVID-19 phishing scams have skyrocketed over the past weeks, as hackers exploit anxiety and faltering vigilance in this strange new working world. But our analyst Diego Valero Marco is fighting back with his DROPi tool, enabling CISOs to give remote teams the power to detect and avoid malicious COVID-19 domains. New tool to protect against [...]