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Despite the first attacks on Equifax going back as far as May 2017, the full details of the breach have not and may never be fully released to the public. There is, however, enough information available for those on the outside of the organisation to observe the lessons that can and should be learnt, writes Fifth Step CEO Darren Wray in Strategic Risk magazine.
Application operational problems can increase over time, to a point when the operational risk reaches a level deemed to be unacceptable. A consequence of failure would then be detrimental to the daily business process. The different components of the application landscape can jointly or individually increase the risk to an unacceptable level, writes Paul Chadburn in his third blog on the application landscape.
Darren Wray is hosting a webinar to provide a session on how GDPR will affect London market marketing departments. But GDPR isn't just an opportunity to improve your international data protection standards.
Paul Chadburns explains how CIOs need to immerse themselves in their company's business and become the visionaries that see the business through the lens of a digital mindset. These CIOs will become indispensable to their organizations and by virtue of their unique understanding of technology and its business applications, become the next CEOs in a global digital marketplace.
This is the first in a series of Fifth Step Blogs designed to give CIOs and IT leaders an insight into an Application Landscape Review. My purpose is to provide CIOs, IT Leaders and their Business Heads with a methodology to help them manage their applications in today’s fast-paced, complex digital age with a structured pathway to a solution.
With only seven months remaining until GDPR becomes part of E.U. data regulations, Fifth Step CEO Darren Wray is hosting a webinar to provide an informative session how GDPR will affect London market marketing departments.
General data protection regulation (GDPR) will be coming into force in may 2018 and will have a huge effect on how organisations handle users’ information. The GDPR is being implemented to protect individual’s information.
The recent report from the Institute of Directors that nearly a third (30%) of UK business leaders have never heard of the GDPR, chimes my thoughts in a recent blog 5 Steps to prepare for GDPR I wrote for the IoD.
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Change management is well recognised by most organisations as something that they need to do. A recent survey by audit firm KPMG outlines the challenges facing businesses and how some are able to step up whilst others are still struggling to do so, a fact that is slowing business agility and reducing the effectiveness of business change.
With the recent news about major breaches, particularly those in the United States having a good data breach plan has never had more prominence in the media. In this podcast we discuss the what, the why and the how of data breach plan.
When I speak to companies, I still encounter (senior) people who believe that with Brexit, they don’t really need to comply with the GDPR, as it’s an EU requirement. That is very much not the case, the government has confirmed that the UK Data Protection Bill (which includes the requirements for the GDPR) will proceed into law, so all UK companies need to be compliant for the May 25th, 2018 time frame.
In recent years as it has become increasingly clear that technology, IT leadership and project management skills need to become an essential weapon in a modern insurance company’s armoury. That’s why I made a point of attending this year’s Monte Carlo Reinsurance Rendez-Vous to see if there was anything I could take away from the event that would be of interest to Fifth Step’s CIO and IT Leader clients, and which they should be aware of from RVS 2017.
Some insurers are implementing only the minimum data protection standards as required in a jurisdiction—but this approach will cause problems for them, according to Darren Wray, CEO of consultancy firm Fifth Step. Financial services companies need to get on the starting blocks in time for the GDPR in 2018 http://ow.ly/m3so30flwp4
Cyber attacks have proven to affect the continuity of a business as well as compromising the internal and external data stored within an organisation - consequently, having a reputational and financial impact