The aim of this Privacy Framework is to improve privacy risk management between business/mission drivers and privacy protection activities. It is intended for organizations that use data processing systems, products or services irrespective of their sector, focus or size. …
The Story of Daniel Seid, a PECB Certified ISO/IEC 27001 Master Looking back over the last decade, it’s remarkable how much PECB’s network has achieved and advanced professionally. Such advancement is not only a result of our training development and deliverables, but also of the ways by which we’ve been…
The first edition of ISO 22301 was launched in May 2012. It was the first truly internationally accepted standard on business continuity, and it consists of requirements to implement a Business Continuity Management System according to ISO Annex SL. As such, it stood in line with its prominent predecessors such…
Connectivity is one of the main pillars that are defining life in the 21st century. The level of depth that connectivity defines our routines in this century is truly astonishing. With a particular boost after the first decade of the century, we have developed not only habits, but entirely new…
A politically inclined attack or just a ‘simple’ lack of security awareness? Whatever the case, the cyber-attack that hit Marriott was huge. This was the joint second largest data breach to take place, after Yahoo in 2013 and Equifax in 2017. A cyber attacker stole personal information including names, emails,…
Melbourne has been considered “the most livable city in the world” over the past seven years, this year being dethroned by Vienna, the Austrian capital, according to the Economist Intelligence Unit‘s 2018 rankings. I am originally from Romania and before deciding to live in Melbourne, we lived in Adelaide, South…
The philosopher Santayana is famous for having once warned: “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” Recent events have provided several sobering examples of just how true that is. The Apple-FBI dispute was perhaps one of the most recent, painful examples we’ve witnessed a debate the…
We are all talking about the future of jobs. But the question that we should perhaps ask, the most essential one, is: How should those jobs look like (or what should those jobs be)? With the evolution of the nature of the job market, we are facing new realities and…
Artificial intelligence adoption is accelerating faster than most organizations can govern it. Globally, generative AI tools are already embedded into daily operations, often long before organizations have fully assessed the risks they introduce. Recent research highlighted by TechRadar found that almost a third of European businesses still do not have…
Last year I attended a large supply chain conference with several thousand people in attendance. Shippers, brokers, carriers, warehousing technology, insurance and consulting agencies were all well represented. While walking down a long corridor en route to the expo hall, a gentleman stopped me, and pulled me into a side…
“AI, Digitization, and Risk: Securing the Next Wave of Infrastructure Transformation” is the planned and strategic integration of artificial intelligence (AI) and other advanced digital technologies into our current physical and digital infrastructure such as energy grids, transportation, water, data centers, and communication networks. It is a well-thought out comprehensive…
The development of artificial intelligence is entering a new phase, increasingly characterized by the term “agentic artificial intelligence” (agentic AI). Unlike traditional AI systems, which function primarily as tools that respond to individual user inputs, agentic AI systems have the ability to autonomously plan, make decisions, and perform complex tasks…
How security and networking convergence is reshaping the modern enterprise, and what business and technical leaders need to know to cut through the noise. The Perimeter Didn’t Move. It Dissolved For most of the last three decades, enterprise security was an exercise in defending a known boundary. Users sat in…
Agentic AI is the talk of the town. Everywhere you look, startups and research labs are racing to build systems that don’t just respond to prompts but act independently, learn from their environment, and pursue complex goals. This new generation of AI promises autonomy, decision-making, and even initiative. It’s thrilling…
Artificial intelligence (AI) has moved rapidly from innovation labs to the center of business strategy. Across industries, organizations are investing in automation, generative AI, predictive analytics, and intelligent customer experiences to improve efficiency, competitiveness, and scalability. The pressure is understandable. Organizations want to know how AI can improve operations, reduce…
What do you do about an employee you never hired, never interviewed, never trained, and never gave a contract to, but who quietly has access to your customer data, your internal chats, your finance folder, and the authority to act on your behalf? This is not a thought experiment. It…
My phone rang at three in the morning. The voice on the other end was that of someone who had not slept, and for the right reasons: ransomware, live and spreading. Even though the dashboard was green the day before—and technically still was when the call started, since no one…
At a recent closed session in Geneva, a minister from a Global South economy said something I have not been able to shake. We were talking about AI adoption curves, sovereign cloud, and the usual agenda. He said, almost in passing, “We are buying tomorrow’s risks with today’s enthusiasm, and…
