Human Risk – Close Helm Security

Why Human Risk Needs to be a Top Priority

Many traditional forms of cyber-security training don’t really cut the mustard, and on closer inspection, it’s easy to see why. Far too often, it’s still treated as a tick-box exercise, something that employees do once a year strictly for compliance purposes. Only after something goes wrong is greater focus given to this crucial area, and a reaction (or punishment) considered necessary.

November 7, 2023March 17, 2024Article, Publication, Published, Turnkey

Security Think Tank: Think technology, process, human risk to manage ransomware

Effective ransomware handling is not simple – it must span every area of the business and requires a multi-layered approach. To achieve this, CISOs need to focus on providing all employees and the organisation with the necessary “tools” to recognise and react appropriately to an attack and prevent it from succeeding.

November 30, 2022March 17, 2024Article, ComputerWeekly, Published

Security Think Tank: Get to know your personal threat landscape

Security learning is a career-long process, so as 2021 draws to a close, participants in the Computer Weekly Security Think Tank sum up the most important cyber lessons they’ve taken away from the past 12 months

December 15, 2021March 17, 2024Article, ComputerWeekly, Publication, Published

Cybersecurity in the COVID era: Guarding against phishing

While employees have, in the main, adapted to working from home, the rapid move to a remote workforce as a result of Coronavirus has left many organisations highly susceptible to cyberattacks. Andrew Morris, Managing Consultant at Turnkey Consulting, explains how companies can protect themselves against phishing.

September 3, 2020March 17, 2024Article, Intelligent CISO, Publication, Published

Security Think Tank: Let’s call time on inciting fear among users

The traditional picture of a hacker is of a script kiddie in a hoodie hunched over a computer keyboard, but this stereotype is stale and outdated. Is it time to move away from a fear-based approach to security?

January 6, 2020March 17, 2024Article, ComputerWeekly, Published