Prepping is a way of life for people all across the world - it's the practice of making active preparations for a possible catastrophic disaster or emergency, typically by stockpiling food, ammunition and other supplies. Digital prepping however, is ensuring you, your networks, data and digital assets are ready for the very real possibility of a potential future cyber attack. So... are YOU ready?

In this episode we look at the new UK Government Cybersecurity strategy taking a first pass over our thoughts on the content, what it means and an objective view of if this is the UK government's first step towards taking cyber security as seriously as it needs to.

Razorthorn Security – Education Seminar The Criticality of Scoping (created for PCI DSS London) Introduction Of all the PCI DSS project work that takes place in a PCI DSS project one of the most critical parts to undertake is a full scoping to understand the environment that will need to become PCI DSS compliant.

Join us for our roundup of cyber security in business in 2021 and our forecast of things to watch out for in 2022.

We're back from a short break while we upgraded our studio equipment - have you missed us? Today we have a quick roundup of the latest news including notes on a recent interview with a hacker - who they target and why - and what we can take from this to protect our organisations.

In the second of our new series, Spotlight on Technology, we take a look at privileged access management with James Rees MD of Razorthorn cyber security consultancy, & David Higgins, EMEA Technical Director of CyberArk, leaders in identity security and access management. Accounts with privileged access are gold dust for malicious actors and gaining access to these, and the sensitive data these accounts have access to, can cause some huge and costly problems for the targeted organisation.

In this 25 minute video, we take a look at the state of cybercrime and security from a national and regulatory standpoint. We know that there are problems with our existing cyber security - whether that's within CNI and governments or organisations, large or small. The Colonial Pipeline hack is evidence enough.

We've talked about supply chain security before but it's a trend that doesn't appear to be going away - indeed, the number of attacks on service providers only seems to be increasing. Outsourcing is always a strategic risk for any business, but knowing that these attacks are getting more prevalent, what do you need to be doing to make sure your supply chain in secure? We talk about what needs considering to ensure your data isn't compromised by third party security issues. (Start at 7 mins 33 secs to skip to the 'how to').

Ransomware has been the biggest cybersecurity problem of 2021, with yet another service provider hit this week. We've had our warning shots - now is the time to rethink our Defence in Depth strategy and learn from the mistakes of other organisations. We run through what you need to be considering and adding to your security strategies in order to protect yourself from what is becoming a very real and very possible threat.

In our new series, Spotlight on Technology, we invite experts from different areas of cyber security to talk to us about their specialisms. First up, we take a look at encryption with James Rees MD of Razorthorn, a cyber security consultancy & Scott Glazer from Atakama, New York based multifactor encryption software specialists. 80% of companies hit by ransomware are hit twice in a short space of time – 45% of the time by the same attacker as the initial breach. We need to take a new approach to defend against this modern day threat.