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A supermarket worker uses a probe thermometer and clipboard to check the temperature of empty, fogged-up freezer cabinets, with the aisle closed off, after a cyber attack on the store’s refrigeration systems

Defrosted overnight: the French supermarket cyber attack and How it describes my job

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When someone asks me what I do for a living, I usually take a breath before answering. Business continuity, crisis management, information security, data protection, emergency planning, exercising, training…. People’s eyes start to glaze over somewhere around the third item, and I can see them filing me under “something in IT” or “health and safety,

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A small business leadership team of four reviews a recovery plan together around a meeting table, discussing priorities calmly and analytically

What the NCSC’s new incident recovery guidance gets right, and where it falls short

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On 29 July, the NCSC published What To Do When Cyber-Attacks Disrupt Your Organisation, a detailed framework covering the first hours of a disruptive attack through to the months of rebuild that follow. It’s well timed. Attack volumes are up, and the guidance is clear-eyed about something many boards still underestimate: recovery from a serious

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