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OT incident response: when you cannot just isolate the system

OT incident response: when you cannot just isolate the system

IT incident response says contain first. In an operational environment, disconnecting a controller can be a safety event. What changes about detection, containment, forensics and the authority to act.

Cybersecurity for non-profits: doing this on a real budget

Cybersecurity for non-profits: doing this on a real budget

Charities hold donor and beneficiary data, run on volunteers and constrained budgets, and are targeted precisely because attackers expect weak defences. What actually matters when you cannot buy your way out.

Insurance sector cybersecurity: legacy systems and very sensitive data

Insurance sector cybersecurity: legacy systems and very sensitive data

Insurers hold health, financial and behavioural data across systems that are often decades old, distributed through a broker network they do not control. What that combination demands.

Pharma and life sciences: where cybersecurity meets validated systems

Pharma and life sciences: where cybersecurity meets validated systems

Systems that affect product quality or patient safety are validated, and validation constrains how you patch, change and secure them. How security and GxP obligations coexist without either being ignored.

Maritime and logistics cybersecurity: when the OT floats

Maritime and logistics cybersecurity: when the OT floats

Vessels, ports and freight systems combine operational technology, thin connectivity, international crews and enormous commercial consequence. What makes this sector distinctive, and what regulators now expect.

Professional services: securing other people's secrets

Professional services: securing other people's secrets

Law firms, accountants and consultancies hold their clients' most sensitive material and are increasingly audited by those clients. What is distinctive about the sector, and why client security reviews now decide panel appointments.

Education cybersecurity compliance: open by design, targeted anyway

Education cybersecurity compliance: open by design, targeted anyway

Universities and schools hold rich personal data on minors and adults, run famously open networks, and have become a favoured ransomware target. What compliance looks like in an environment that resists central control.

Telecom cybersecurity compliance: regulated infrastructure at national scale

Telecom cybersecurity compliance: regulated infrastructure at national scale

Telecom operators sit under sector regulators, critical infrastructure rules and privacy law simultaneously - while running networks where availability is a licence condition. What is distinctive, and where programmes strain.

Automotive suppliers: TISAX, prototype protection and the ISO 27001 question

Automotive suppliers: TISAX, prototype protection and the ISO 27001 question

Automotive buyers rarely accept a generic certificate. What TISAX assessment levels mean, why prototype protection is unlike anything in other sectors, and how it relates to what you may already hold.

Energy and utilities: where a security control can be a safety hazard

Energy and utilities: where a security control can be a safety hazard

Critical national infrastructure carries the heaviest regulatory load and the least tolerance for downtime. Why IT security practice transplanted into operational technology fails, and what replaces it.

Retail and e-commerce compliance: payment scope, skimming and the peak-season freeze

Retail and e-commerce compliance: payment scope, skimming and the peak-season freeze

Card data drives the obligations, client-side scripts drive the breaches, and the change freeze that protects trading also blocks patching. What retail security programmes have to solve that others do not.

Supplying the public sector: the compliance bar for vendors

Supplying the public sector: the compliance bar for vendors

Selling to government entities means inheriting their cybersecurity obligations. What flows down to suppliers, how it appears in tenders, and how to qualify rather than being screened out.

OT and manufacturing security: why IT playbooks fail on the plant floor

OT and manufacturing security: why IT playbooks fail on the plant floor

Operational technology inverts most IT security assumptions - availability over confidentiality, decade-long lifecycles, safety consequences. What applies, what does not, and how to build a compliance programme that plant engineers will accept.

Compliance for SaaS companies moving upmarket

Compliance for SaaS companies moving upmarket

For SaaS, compliance is a sales function before it is a risk function. What enterprise buyers demand, when to invest, and how to build a programme that scales with engineering velocity rather than fighting it.

Cybersecurity compliance for fintech and payments

Cybersecurity compliance for fintech and payments

Fintechs face the widest stack of overlapping obligations of any sector - card standards, prudential regulation, resilience rules and privacy law. How they fit together and where to start.

Cybersecurity compliance for healthcare organisations

Cybersecurity compliance for healthcare organisations

Healthcare carries the most sensitive personal data and the least tolerance for downtime. The frameworks that apply, where healthcare compliance differs from other sectors, and where programmes typically fail.