Open Cybersecurity Alliance – what is it and why is it needed?
The new Open Cybersecurity Alliance (OCA) aims to improve integration and interoperability among security tools.
The new Open Cybersecurity Alliance (OCA) aims to improve integration and interoperability among security tools.
While you are all (I hope) thinking about GDPR, just a brief heads-up on another EU initiative that will also still be important post-Brexit. The NIS Directive is the first piece of EU-wide legislation on cybersecurity. It provides legal measures to boost the overall level of cybersecurity in the EU. The NIS Directive has nothing to do with GDPR directly, but there are some similarities with it and GDPR compliance may help you with NIS compliance. It comes in on the 9th May, 2018, before the UK leaves the EU, but the UK is committed to following it post-Brexit.
Many organisations are having to rethink network security to support Internet of Things (IoT) deployments. This includes being ability to continuously monitor devices attaching to networks and apply policy-based controls, without the use of on-device software agents.