InfoSec Insider

InfoSec Insider Podcast - Season 3, Episode 1 (101)

Benefits of Business Continuity Exercising

In this episode of InfoSec Insider – Talk BC, Phil Knight, Senior Consultant at URM, explores exercising of business continuity plans, and the benefits this can provide to organisations.  Phil draws upon his extensive experience supporting organisations to strengthen their business continuity arrangements and resilience to disc...

In this episode of InfoSec Insider – Talk DP, Rachael Salter and Aimee Brown, both Consultants at URM, share their insights on how to effectively manage the immediate aftermath of a personal data breach.  Aimee and Racheal draw on over 20 years’ combined data protection experience to discuss: 

• What actually counts as a data breach and when it needs to be reported to the Information Commissioner’s Office ...

In this episode of InfoSec Insider – Talk Cyber, Jamie Leavers, Security Consultant at URM, and Lauren Gotting, New Business Director at URM, share real-world lessons learned from conducting hundreds of CE and CE+ assessments, including early assessments against the new Danzell requirements.   Jamie and Lauren leverage their extensive experience with the Cyber Essentials scheme to discuss:

• Lessons from real CE/CE+...

In this episode of InfoSec Insider, George Ryan and Jack Woods, both Consultants at URM, provide expert advice and guidance on how organisations can maintain the physical security of their information, and where physical security most often goes wrong.  George and Jack draw upon their extensive combined experience of helping organisations strengthen their information security to discuss:

• Whether organisations are underest...

In this episode of InfoSec Insider, Alastair Stewart and Tibor Laczko, both Senior Consultants and Qualified Security Assessors (QSAs) with URM, share their insights on complying with periodic requirements within the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS).  Alastair and Tibor leverage nearly 30 years’ combined experience with the PCI DSS to discuss:  

• Why PCI DSS v4 moved away from fixed frequencies ...

In this episode of InfoSec Insider – Talk DP, Aimee Brown and Rachael Salter, both Consultants at URM, break down cookies compliance under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations (PECR).  Aimee and Racheal draw on over 20 years’ combined data protection experience to discuss: 

• Why cookies are so important to businesses commercially
• What the law a...

In this episode of InfoSec Insider, Neil Jones, Senior Consultant at URM, shares key advice and guidance on ISO 27001 Clause 10.2 (Nonconformity and corrective action), its requirements and how organisations can meet them.  Neil leverages over 20 years of experience working with risk and information security-related standards to discuss: 

• What Clause 10.2 is and why it is important for organisations managing problems...

In this episode of InfoSec Insider, Tibor Laczko and Alastair Stewart, both Senior Consultants and Qualified Security Assessors (QSAs) at URM, explore scoping in the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS). Alastair and Tibor leverage nearly 30 years’ combined experience with the PCI DSS to discuss:     

• When an organisation stops being ‘just a merchant’ and becomes a PCI DSS service provi...

In this episode of InfoSec Insider, George Ryan and Jack Woods, both Consultants at URM, break down the key steps to establishing control over the use of artificial intelligence (AI) within organisations.  Jack and George leverage their extensive experience supporting organisations to strengthen their information security and risk management to discuss:

• Why organisations should be paying attention to AI right no...

In this episode of InfoSec Insider – Talk DP, Rachael Salter and Aimee Brown, both Consultants at URM, consider emerging trends in the field of data protection and privacy, and the practical implications for organisations that need to maintain compliance.  Aimee and Rachel leverage 20 years’ combined experience in data protection to discuss:

• What they think will define privacy risk over the next 12 months
• Why ...

In this episode of InfoSec Insider, Alastair Stewart and Tibor Laczko, both Senior Consultants and Qualified Security Assessors (QSAs) with URM, explore some of the most misunderstood areas of PCI DSS scoping, focusing on service providers, merchants, and complex modern payment architectures. Alastair and Tibor leverage nearly 30 years’ combined experience with the PCI DSS to discuss:

• When an organisation stops being &ld...

In this episode of InfoSec Insider, George Ryan and Jack Woods, both Consultants at URM, answer some of the niche and unusual questions around governance, risk and compliance (GRC).  Jack and George leverage their extensive experience supporting organisations to strengthen their information security and risk management to discuss:  • The key questions clients rarely ask despite being extremely important • Whether a policy...

In this episode of InfoSec Insider – Talk DP, Rachael Salter and Aimee Brown, both Consultants at URM, answer key, real-world questions around data protection and how organisations can stay compliant.  Aimee and Rachel leverage 20 years’ combined experience in data protection to discuss:

• When data is genuinely anonymous, and how easy it is to lose that status
• Whether things like voice, handwriting, CCTV, emoji...

In this episode of InfoSec Insider, Wayne Armstrong and Chris Heighes, both Senior Consultants at URM, offer key advice on effective approaches to cyber and information security risk management from a business perspective.  Chris and Wayne draw upon their combined 45 years of experience in information security and risk management to discuss:

• What good, risk-based decision-making actually looks like in practice, and where ...

In this episode of InfoSec Insider, Alastair Stewart and Tibor Laczko, both Senior Consultants and Qualified Security Assessors (QSAs) with URM, explore the use of severless architecture and Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) compliance.  Alastair and Tibor leverage nearly 30 years’ combined experience with the PCI DSS to discuss:    

• What ‘severless’ actually means in a PCI...

In this episode of InfoSec Insider – Talk DP, Aimee Brown and Rachael Salter, both Consultants at URM, break down the data protection compliance issues that arise from the use of bring your own device (BYOD) within organisations, and how these can be overcome.  Aimee and Racheal draw on over 20 years’ combined data protection experience to discuss:

• Why BYOD has become so common, and why it still catches organi...

In this episode of InfoSec Insider, Jack Woods and George Ryan, both Consultants at URM, share their insights on how organisations can effectively manage AI suppliers and navigate the emerging risks associated with artificial intelligence in the supply chain.

Jack and George draw on their experience supporting organisations with AI governance and supplier risk management to discuss:

• What AI supplier management is and how it di...

In this episode of InfoSec Insider, Wayne Armstrong, Senior Information Security Consultant and Consultant Manager at URM, breaks down the fundamentals of effective information security risk assessment and treatment.  Wayne draws upon over 30 years of experience in IT, information security and risk management to discuss:

• What ‘risk’ actually is
• How to define a risk and the three component parts that are needed...

In this episode of InfoSec Insider, Alastair Stewart and Tibor Laczko, both Senior Consultants and Qualified Security Assessors (QSAs) at URM, share their insights on zero trust architecture and its use when complying with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS).  Alastair and Tibor leverage 30 years’ combined experience with the PCI DSS to discuss:

• What ‘zero trust’ is
• Whether organis...