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Top tips to prepare for cyber threats in the COVID-19 era
The ISF Threat Radar is a visual aid created to accompany the Threat Horizon reports that can be leveraged by organisations to assess the impact of COVID-19 on the threat landscape. These ISF tips can help you to make the best use of the ISF Threat Radar.
You can download our Top Tips to prepare for cyber threats in the COVID-19 era poster here >
Top tips for homeworking
The COVID-19 outbreak has turned many regular office goers and commuters into home workers. They have been thrust into an environment that is both familiar and strange that can pose novel risks for both staff and their employers. These Information Security Forum top tips can make your experience more safe and secure
You can download our COVID-19: Top 10 Cyber Security Tips for Homeworking poster here >
Research and tools
We have broken our Research and Tools into sub-categories so you can easily find the most suitable guidance to suit your current needs.
Managing the Changing Working Environment
The impact of the COVID-19 virus has resulted in an unprecedented explosion in working from home. With this fundamental change in the working environment comes new risks.
- Managing BYOD Risk: Staying ahead of your mobile workforce
- Human-Centred Security: Addressing psychological vulnerabilities
Protecting Business as Usual
As remote working becomes the new norm, there is an opportunity to retest established continuity procedures and ensure that staff are familiar with how they apply in the new working environment
- The ISF Standard of Good Practice for Information Security 2018
- Protecting the Crown Jewels: How to secure mission-critical assets
- Delivering an Effective Cybersecurity Exercise
Understanding the Growing Risk
In the context of a global pandemic, the risk lens inevitably turns to its immediate impact on business operations and the wellbeing of staff, however it is important to maintain vigilance of the risks associated with cyber. They haven’t gone away and, in some cases, may be more acute.
- Securing the Supply Chain: Preventing your suppliers’ vulnerabilities from becoming your own
- Supplier Security Evaluation (SSE)
- Managing Insider Threat: Improving trustworthiness
Communicating with the Board
With organisations under pressure, clear and succinct communication around the changing cyber risk is an imperative.
Looking to the Future
In unusual times it is perhaps difficult to think beyond the short term. However, when this pandemic is over, there will be a need to reset the organisation and adapt to the new future and the cyber risks that this will bring.
- Threat Horizon 2021: The digital illusion shatters
- Threat Horizon: Futureproofing your organisation’s cybersecurity
Podcasts and Webinars
- Nicholas Witchell & Steve Durbin: Cyber in Society
- Colonel Chris Hadfield – An Astronaut’s Guide to Managing Risk
- #Cyber2020 – China, USA and the Geopolitical Arena
- Human-Centred Security – Managing Human Vulnerabilities
- Human-Centred Security – Exploiting Human Vulnerabilities
- Human-Centred Security – The Insider Threat
- Innovating Your Cybersecurity
- Embedding Cyber Hygiene into the Organisation
- VS Subrahmanian – Cyber Security and the Individual
- Jon Fisher – Thnk Before you Click
- Emma Bickerstaffe – The Evolving Security Operations Centre
- Webinar – 15th April – Phishing, it’s not about what you catch
- Webinar – 16th April – Threat Horizon 2022: Digital and physical worlds collide
- Webinar – On-demand – Emerging Cyber Threats for 2020
- Webinar – On-demand – Securing the IoT: Taming the Connected World
Blogs and press
- Impact of Coronavirus Outbreak on Early Stage Venture Investment in Cybersecurity
- As coronavirus spreads, cybersecurity staff contend with increasing attacks, remote workers
- 15 Coronavirus Online Scams to Watch Out For
- COVID-19 Spurs Facial Recognition Tracking, Privacy Fears
- COVID-19: Top 10 Cyber Security Tips for Homeworking
- Security Think Tank: To tackle COVID-19, be prepared, flexible and resilient
- Threat Horizon – The World in 2022
- Apply the ISF approach for using cloud services securely
- Use the human-centered approach for smarter security and compliance teams
- Overcoming the cyber security challenges of the cloud
- European Electricity Association confirms hackers breached its office network
- No Time for Complacency: Watch your back on biometrics, compliance, and insider threats
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