YOUR PROVIDER IS HACKED, YOU'RE ASSURED OF NO FINANCIAL LOSS. BUT ARE YOU SAFE?...

[UPDATED 20th FEBRUARY 2014] In the aftermath of the Santander and Barclays KVM hacks, @GrahamCluley kindly invited me to post my comments on his blog.
A few weeks on, I have some updates which you may find interesting…

FROM FRAUD TO INFOSEC and vice versa... Part 2

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In my previous post, I summarised the UK National Fraud Authority latest Annual Fraud Indicator and how it relates to information security. In this post, I delve further on this connection by further refining the key fraud enablers used to defraud victims of all types. These cut across the fraud landscape and often overlap which poses further challenges for quantifying their impact, but the classification is nonetheless helpful and recognisable.

FROM FRAUD TO INFOSEC and vice versa... Part 1

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In my last post, I attempted to give some real business metrics to help secure information security investment. One of those metrics set related to our ability to link infosec to fraud and in this post I’d like to examine the connection a bit further. Lucky for me, the UK National Fraud Authority have just released their 2012 Annual Fraud Indicator (readers beware, it’s 58 pages...), so with my infosec lens, I’ll take you through the report and hopefully give you some more KPIs to think about...