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2026! The Year of Informed Intelligence!

Mon, 29 Dec 2025 14:46:19 GMT

What does 2026 mean for Cyber Security?

For today’s businesses the strategic imperative in Cyber Security for 2026 isn’t just another inclusion into the planning cycle — it’s the year the security strategy evolves from reactive defense into intelligence-driven proactive assurance. The volume and sophistication of threats available to adversaries now far outpace manual processes and legacy tooling. Without real-time, automated data intelligence and tightly coupled attributed insights that assign accountability, teams constantly struggle to keep pace, exposing critical systems and sensitive data to unnecessary risk. You need embedded context-rich automation with measurable security controls deployed across your entire environment i.e. moving your security transformation journey to include predictive security models.

As someone accountable for cyber security, your imperative couldn’t be clearer. Customers demand resilience, trust, and continuity as core business outcomes. Security must be a strategic enabler, not an assurance audit exercise. Without intelligent, proactive cyber security, you risk disruption to operations, damage to reputation, and exploitation of customer data. This year should see you align security outcomes with business performance. As you refine your priorities for the year ahead, there are two imperatives to address:

Automated Data Intelligence: Detection and response that scale with your business, reducing risk faster than human-only processes ever could.
Attributed Cyber Security: Clear accountability and ownership of risk with measurable outcomes, tying security performance to strategic objectives.

You don’t have to make this transformation alone. At SAIBER Ltd, we help all businesses and executives to operationalise these imperatives. The threats of 2026 will outpace legacy defenses and so you must assess your digital estate. SAIBER Ltd can work with you to transform your security posture into a strategic asset that protects your enterprise and accelerates your growth.

Why not take our free Executive Readiness Quiz on our website or email us for more details.

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2025! The Year of Secure Evolution!

Tue, 31 Dec 2024 19:21:47 GMT

What does 2025 mean for Cyber Security?

As we step into the new year, we can finally expect digital platforms to bring-to-life the benefits of combining technologies that were once termed as emerging trends like Internet of Things (IoT), Blockchain Technology, Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR), Quantum Computing, Edge Computing, and Robotic Process Automation (RPA), which are now all set to play a significant role in shaping the technology landscapes in 2025 across all industries.

Overlayed with the advances in Artificial Intelligence methods as the invisible glue, your digital estate will finally be able to enterprise its operations at scale, by either being transactional or transformational. As you start to make efficient your enterprise, you will want to make sure cyber-resiliency continues to be considered. Emerging technologies come with newer threat vectors, and you should be prepared for zero-day attacks, this can only be achieved once you understand your cyber risks.

Technologies will continue to use federated ecosystems, including advanced authentication-based controls that interact vertically and horizontally across your estate which will now also have business expectations to evolve into the wider external ecosystems to facilitate transient data transfers. This authenticated-augmentation will be based on more simpler methods of 'Read, Write and Own' - ensuring any digital transactions remain in lockstep with your overall technology policies and business practices.

If course your digital transformations journey is still beginning, or your finally cloud enabled but without any supplier-risk resiliency, no matter what stage you are at, we at SAIBER Ltd are ready to work with you to make sure you stay digitally safe. Contact us for more information on how we can help you.

As for digital synthetic brains and turning yourself into a cyborg, well, that form of 'Sentient' technology is a type of Secure Evolution we all can expect in years to come.

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2024! The Year of Digital Codification!

Sat, 30 Dec 2023 21:47:10 GMT

What does 2024 mean for Cyber Security?

It's 2024! Whether you have completed your transition into Cloud services or are getting ready to execute your tactical and strategic plans – in 2024, digital codification will surely be part of your technology journey.

Why digital codification now? Until now, technology platforms and their macro and micro services were always seen to be integrated together through domain policy, now with all vendors looking to realise full potential of technologies deployed, they need to take advantage of technical interoperability between domains and solutions beyond policy integration. With all the processing power now available along with advances in GUX designs, the humble 'backend digital transaction' is will not only be working on a backend level but also, along supplier digital channels straight into direct consumer interactions – the start of Industry 4.0.

Digital codification will now allow different industries to interact with each other in real time as individual business can finally set up automated digital transactions, and using machine learning and artificial intelligence, to be able to optimise business operations – starting with refining front line activities. This ability to have real-time data movement will allow organisational processes to be in line with policies and when cascaded across the digital supply chain, vertical and horizontal opportunities will continue to be realised.

All these new codification efficiencies require good governance, risk and compliance mechanisms and we will see new standards and frameworks emerging to ensure interoperability by technology and policy is seamless. With stronger codification, we will see an increase in signal (data-telemetry) quality increase giving the ability to gain valuable insights on activity across your business, from transaction data through to cyber security threat intelligence - combined with machine learning and artificial intelligence, cyber security monitoring will continue to move to advance levels for threat detection methods for both reactive and proactive threat hunting.

The humble Antivirus will mature into fully fledged XDR solutions and be bolstered to not only detect anomalies but also provide automation into business processes optimising first line responses and at the same time, well known features like User Behaviour monitoring will be advanced to cover anomalies across the entire ecosystems and subscriptions, not just for individual domains, and with that, the actual data inputs required for artificial intelligence will not only need to be of quality but also in line with GDPR regulations - this new dynamic with data schematics and machine learning will see new frameworks and regulations across operational functions like DevSecOps.

At SAIBER Ltd, our flagship product, the Chartered Expert Requirements package, like all our cyber packages, will ensure all your cyber security requirements will progress your security posture.

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Securmeo & Cyberette - Shakespearean period drama. #RUCyberReady’s adaptation

Sun, 05 Mar 2023 16:59:51 GMT

Securmeo & Cyberette

Act 1 prologue.

Two households of different stature, finds cyber security understanding and risk compliance through their use of generational technologies to integrate and collaborate with each others. Breaking down silos for better business opportunities. How they get to making the right digital decisions is a tale of woe and tragedy.

Act 1. Local municipality gets hacked and effects both households. Panic and looting ensues across all provinces.

Scene 1 . Craziness and miss-information overload reduces digital alertness in everyone and both households continue to fall victim to phishing attacks.

Scene 2. House prices drop , cost of living goes up . Securmeo & Cyberette’s future is grim. Online discount vouchers stop working. Winter freezes damns so no hydro power, cloudy short days and damaged and stolen solar panels (by looters) means no energy. Technology debt worsens.

Scene 3. Random pirates shore the province bring with them cov-eth, but locally sourced coconut water combined with locally sourced berries provides heard immunity.

Scene 4. Securmeo and Cyberette now living off the land, local berries and coconuts, as does all.

Scene 5. Both start thinking of dating online as an escape.

Act 2. Households gather their resources. Need a way forward.

Scene 1. Cyber insurance declined for all due to no evidence of robust security control and risk management policies.

Scene 2. Mandatory security awareness training for all.

Scene 3. Laptops salvaged and re built with latest malware and OS updates, firewalls/vpn enabled by default. Passwords forced to change.

Scene 4. Spring ensues and energy back through solar panels, some are getting online again.

Scene 5 . Some vouchers work but have to click and collect. Robbing still strife - (cameo from Robin Hood)

Scene 6. Securmeo & Cyberette’s both create catfish accounts, in attempts to hide real identity and make private bids on food items through local websites.

Act 3. Food shortages continue to force both households to try online shopping.

Scene 1. In desperation for food, Securmeo & Cyberette find each other on same local website and try to buy each others produce but accounts hacked on the local website and further personal losses seen. They are in more debt as credit card details were stored in their browser as were their passwords. They didn’t use a verified password vault and they thought a unbranded open source browser-vault would be secure. Their households remain without food.

Scene 2 . Click and collect in more places, things slowly getting back to normal. So it seems..

Scene 3. Summer is here, all time heatwaves, crops damaged.

Scene 4. Water shortages, health effected, coconut water shortages, berries burnt.

Scene 5. Tropical days and nights for many weeks. Pirates throw an online regular pub quiz.

Act 4. Government funding announced. Both find farming produce online and see popup advert for dating app.

Scene 1. Government announces sustainable farming methods. New household websites launched via government funding.

Scene 2. Both households invest in better security controls, such as Identify Access Management, Data Loss Prevention and DDoS attack mitigations. Also now performing verified 3rd party supplier assessment.

Scene 4. Both households restore digital sovereignty.

Scene 4. Both households create new digital strategy and execute via new market place supply chains.

Scene 5. Securmeo & Cyberette’s find produce and haggle prices on these new digital market places , their deal fails with different suppliers, but dating app advert pops up. They both sign up to dating app, realising a failed society, prospects of the dating app lifts their spirits.

Act 5. Both sign up to virtual immersive fair organised by IT Friars.

Scene 1. Family food stocks still running short.

Scene 2. IT Friar launches smart digital business, with subscription smart device services accepting bitcoins and crypto currencies. Along side a marketing event ‘Join a random online fair’ to launch his food subscriptions delivery box every week!

Scene 3. IT Friar sends messenger to both houses to advertise fair. Securmeo & Cyberette’s are interested in attending. They secretly hope others will use the dating app during the virtual fair, they configure their own profiles with likes, needs and wants on the dating app- hierarchy of needs (Maslow Theory). IT Friars business seems to solve the food issues too! Things are looking up for Securmeo & Cyberette.

Act 6. Dating app gets hacked and Bitcoin stolen. Dramatic finale.

Scene 1. Unknown new malware spreads across the internet. Dating app is also effected.

IT Friar realises his platform is down too, he done no cyber third supplier checks on the open source software used by his provider. Sadly all his customer profiles were compromised, hackers changed customer profile preferences, including mixing up allergen preferences, hackers changed the ordering system too - coffee and cakes subscriptions are mixed - unfortunately Securmeo is allergic to coffee and Cyberette is allergic to icing on the cake, both are allergic, receive incorrect subscriptions boxes. A few hours left before the online fair, so they both eat the contents of the subscription box and alas, are no more – the allergic reactions ‘Kill -9’ them both. IT Friars bitcoin exchange collapses - crypto and NFT markets crash. Future is uncertain and in unchartered territories.

Scene 2. Securmeo & Cyberette therefore never meet online. IT Friars decides to make things right, opens poly-cloud retail-platform using blockchain web 3 technologies and get his platform certified. Both households subscribe, ditch their catfish accounts, follow GDPR and sell to each other and far across all devolved provinces. {Everyone turns vegan, new online-wellness industry booms.}

So ends the tale of the tragic digital transformation journey of two households. Now aligned in digital harmony, but at the cost of their own MVP’s. Moral of the story, as a business, your actions of doing no cyber diligence impacts others. As a consumer always download your app from a verified certified trusted source, do your own diligence before subscribing. The digital universe is not all coffee and icing on the cake.

So ends #RUCyberReady’s adaptation

Disclaimer : Entertainment purposes only. Adaptation of Romeo & Juliet by Shakespeare and Robin Hood. Credits due to Shakespeare and Robin Hood creators.

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2023! The Year Of Articulated Data.

Fri, 30 Dec 2022 12:02:24 GMT

What does 2023 mean for Cyber Security?

Whilst 2023 will be about consolidation of technology debt for most organisations, it will also give opportunity to redefine how digital data estates should fundamentally exist. Are you ready to move a blockchain based solution, does your existing technologies hold you back? What role will quantum computing play across your organisation?

We are already more confident in what our data requirements and transactions are now, through cloud, perimeter and even consumer-based networks, and as we continue to see different immersive-meta-worlds become more interoperable, alongside, more vendors harmonising solutions, we will see a greater quality of open-telemetry gathered, and from this, 2023 will allow us to realign our technology estates to become a better versions of itself, with safer interactions for supply chains, businesses and customers.

Data architecture is ready for an uplift into new frameworks, across all industries, and over the last few years we have got an indication of what good data can do for us. Now we are ready for what value-based data can do for our production and work forces, additionally as AI continues to mature with newer telemetry reference points, so will the ability to collaborate digitally.

Current types of telemetry collection methods have not been optimised for security, and in some case secure interoperability has been an afterthought, that has led to API based data breaches and enterprise compromise. With a focus on regulatory requirements, we will see data security in-built as part of user-API-experience and DevSecOps, allowing us to monitor efficiently our digital data security estate.

Here at SAIBER Ltd, we are ready to help you use your data safely across your organisation, from solutions development through to business processes.

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2022! The Year of Federated Ecosystems.

Tue, 28 Dec 2021 18:42:19 GMT

What does 2022 mean for Cyber Security?

Are we talking about sentient A.I ecosystems? well not just yet, but 2022 will see us headed into that direction. With the innovations of Web 3.0 as a method of joining our new cloud worlds into the unknown digital universe, we will see an increase in federated ecosystems throughout 2022.

Digital transformation has seen Web 1.0 and 2.0 mature enough to allow Working-From-Home to become a new business phenomenon, and the same technologies will see consumers now wanting to define newer digital requirements i.e., digital value propositions for smart home efficiencies, patient health, circular economies, or entertainment technologies with federated ecosystems at its core.

Within these ecosystems, consumer design technologies will continue to play an integral role such as new interfaces for garden-wall technologies for content protection, GDPR strategies for data sovereignty, and service resilience features for low-touch applications. It is not only consumer peer to peer activities, but also business to business needs that will see enhancements for economies of scale across decentralised and centralised geo-platforms allowing value add propositions to promote integration using industry 4.0 trust-less self-enforcing contracts, so we can finally have those registered drones performing regulated deliveries automatically using community-based-last mile innovations.

All these new digital requirements will see 2022 create new digital asset classifications and ecosystems to automate high frequency, low value federated transactions. So, what's new here? Well, with Web 3.0, everyone in the ecosystem has value, where consumers and businesses are functioning together in real time.

Accessing technologies like digital browsers through digital devices interacting across data systems will see a community approach that will use secure federated devices, including new methods of RBAC models for platform communities.

The digital ecosystems will need to have dedicated digital technologies like integrated Chipsets, Blockchain, PKI, OS and browser innovations to promote better cyber security, as we all know, the cost of security-control should be less than the value of the asset, so 2022 will also likely see an increase in data tokenisation innovations.

A federated ecosystem will be harmonised with organisational and consumer integrations working as peers - this means using disciplined cyber policies and associated procedures (so robots will know exactly how to self-heal the ecosystem they are deployed in), or if you are not ready for robots just yet, then what risk methods will protect your digital-asset-as-a-service?

Our packages at SAIBER Ltd are designed to help you promote your federated cyber security strategy to better promote your cyber security posture within your organisation i.e. your federated ecosystem.

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Automating Autonomy

Fri, 15 Oct 2021 21:18:13 GMT

What it means for Cyber Security ?

We're not just talking about automating your PIP trading position, we're talking about automating your organisational security posture. Moving to the cloud has played a major role in most organisations digital growth strategies enabling them to ready themselves in entering a whole new world. With that, new business models, including defining what 'Shared Responsibility' means is required.

Responsibilities Retained
Responsibilities Transferred

The cloud allows computing to be commoditised with wholesale, consumer, and industry needs. For this, you need to know what does commodity and utility-based resources mean for you, do you want to shift commodity responsibilities into the cloud to free up on prem resources, leverage cloud-scaling capabilities, integrate cloud-intelligence domain wide or simply do it all or shared with a provider.

Start by asking yourself, what are the organisations automation requirements? How can you provide better cyber extended detection, response, and remediation? or automatically eliminate pre-hack stages of a cyber compromise? automate basic cyber security workloads like vulnerability management? or promote better Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) mechanisms for;

Embedded Finance
Supply Chain Resilience
Shared Risk Controls

You'll also need to think about the most important asset within your organisation - the users. Is it time to automate security for your end user computing environments with federated authentication, or give better automation for DevSecOp processes to promote better cyber risk controls ? Are you confident that users are interacting with digital assets like data, digital identities, and access management correctly? (Even Cyborgs if you have them in your environment?)

If you do not understand what 'Next-Gen' actually means and are ready to take on a more beneficial approach to cyber security, then let our packages at SAIBER Ltd help you achieve your cyber security goals. Ready to automate the autonomy?

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Bring Your Own Security

Sun, 13 Jun 2021 16:47:38 GMT

What it means for Cyber Security ?

#RUCyberReady to Bring Your own Security? The new normal has likely seen your business increase the use of technology to transiently empower your customer base using everyday digital systems.

As industries continue to aligning themselves to open sustainable digital platforms, businesses are aligning their activities to stay digitally secure in proactive ways. Some are aware of the benefits of using digital-twin profiles to upsell or proof new services, however, as new blended business models enter mainstream commerce, our platform expectations have changed, and we expect platforms or providers to be able to adapt to our technology business blend, whether that be for just-in-time-ecosystems or federated-trusted-access.

We can access business platforms anywhere now. From our mobile devices, we can get access to all the data we need to progress our business well beyond traditional working ours.

If you are just starting out bring your own device (BYOD) is a good method for you to socialise your policies, this for some organisations may just be an extension of their new working-from-home-policies, or enhancement of their acceptable-use-policies for VPN enforcement. If you have mastered your BYOD position, then you now will be looking to master your Bring Your Own Security (BYOS) strategies.

This is about knowing what security your data needs from ingress through to egress.

Beyond platform controls, you need to be able to bring your own security to any business project, this could be making simple assessments against your zero-day policies, such as, enforcing the use of a device-based-VPN that enforces data protection using a privacy-based browser, or reviewing your risk posture to only connect to platforms using MFA over HTTPS.

For some digital transactions, new standards and principals should be created, like for blockchain ecosystems or Industry 4.0, whilst for others, standards and polices should be reviewed to reflect your position on ‘Bring your own security’ - something which our packages are already designed to help you achieve and prove that you are not the weakest link.

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2021! The Year of Cognitive Monetisation.

Mon, 28 Dec 2020 19:15:16 GMT

What does 2021 mean for Cyber Security?

We're not just talking about social media likes! This year will see an increase in transient empowerment mechanisms being delivered using digital-trade based functional transactions.

Digital sovereignty, digital perspectives and digital first strategies and services will allow you to transform your 'Last Mile Technologies' into multiple 'Last Mile Journeys' of blended localised services enabling communities to leverage trust-based cognitive transactions within your digitalised system.

2021 will see you manifest your priority digital services through multiple PAYG, Monthly, Annual and Circular-economy channel subscriptions where you will finally be able to define the qualifications required to enable your 'Last Mile Journey' using interim interoperable gateway-interactions that will automatically enable scalable, convenient and accessible trust-based functions to specifically reduce the cost of verification and simultaneously clarify information transmissions to enable you to drive out inefficiencies from your digital and non-digital ecosystems based on;

• Community Committed Transactions: New democratic based technologies will fuel value-based services that use mechanisms like federated services and smart API's delivered over locally independent communications serviced by edge-gateway based transactions and procedures. Civic activities will use new hybrid-cloud modularisations linked to inhouse as-a-service-technology for hospital, medical, retail and education to provide communities with converged-services for local council transactions.

• Blended Industry Transactions: New geo-industry intelligence based technologies that focus on the micro collaboration of ‘known’ wholesale market opportunities that cross combine vertical, horizontal and virtual solutions from new industry 4.0 concepts will give disruptive and traditional client value such as green sustainable manufacturing or supply chain integrations that seamlessly automate-at-source expected demarcation using independent validator nodes for business activities like legalities, insurance and accountancy.

• Business Functional Transactions: New regulation technology for new digital assets for macro collaboration of ‘unknown’ opportunities using replicated programmable intelligence to promote trade with trustless compliant neutral bridges to support the Last Mile Journeys, such as gatekeeper brokerages for digital operations using consent-based transactions providing built-in information controls for smart-contract-growth.

• Consumer Trending Transactions: New low-touch business mechanisms will analyse embedded network-effect behaviours to pre-qualify frictionless transactions so that everyday computed services can be provided over a demand-consumption model allowing peer-to-peer transactions to evolve into people-to-people ecosystems.

Making 2021 the year of Cognitive Monetisation - all against the backdrop of your digital security requirements.

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Owning Vulnerability Management

Mon, 17 Aug 2020 19:44:03 GMT

What it means for Cyber Security?

For your customer it means they feel safe and confident that your products or services are less likely to get caught out by the trending hack in the news. For your business, it means you are not the weakest link in the supply chain, and for industry, you can interact with others who also demonstrate good governance a chosen threat and vulnerability management framework. A vulnerability management framework has to consider assets, inherent risks and frequency of threats, including;

Secure Development Life Cycle Programme

User Acceptance Testing & Penetration Testing

Risk Remediation & Ownership

Resilience Services

Patch Scheduling

A vulnerability management programme will unite the above into one programme that will increase your security posture. If you are dependent on your online internet facing servers, laptops or devices, then having a dedicate resource is recommended, you can also look at outsourcing repeatable activities, however assessing each risk should have final sign-off from internal leads only.

Internal risk postures are constantly moving as are external ones, so making the assessment on how actual attack vectors are going to effect your core business activities is best done internally as the vulnerability categories for risk remediation is only understood by you - including how they effect your security policy.

You might have a vulnerability management policy, especially if you are risk appetite is low or your core business interacts with regulated products like heath devices, smart vehicles, utility services or any critical service.

Having a dedicated policy will let you validate you have selected the right framework to make assessments of each vulnerability and making sure old vulnerability patterns are not repeated. A good vulnerability management programme will make sure you own your risk and have the right security controls in place, even if you use compensatory controls, they too will be in scope for vulnerability tests, so you must know how your resilience frameworks take effect if those controls fails.

SAIBER Ltd's Vendor Neutral Vulnerability Management package will let you execute vulnerability management efficiently by empowering your resources will the correct mechanisms that consider all the above, including technical assessments.

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Using Data Telemetry

Mon, 10 Aug 2020 14:59:28 GMT

What it means for Cyber Security?

Telemetry is a concept used within communications systems, whether physical or digital that provides remote measurements.

For your security staff, it means during an incident response they remain less disenfranchised on the severity of an actual incident. For the business it means during an incident the managers are less disenchanted on what factors to consider when trying to uphold a security policy, and for the industry, it allows us to share security operations data with others in a cleaner way - as we would have specified, using telemetry data, how an incident should be triaged.

Combining these methods will not only keep your security operations teams better informed, but also let you increase your security posture throughout the organisation and technology estate - so as you move towards 5G, Cloud services, IoT or other Hybrid systems, you still have the ability to know what to monitor.

Network Operations Centers typically use telemetry for performance and capacity bandwidth monitoring and now with the many next gen style non-perimeter-based integration points, the same concepts can be used to enhance security postures for different departmental technologies. Your organisations internal and external activities are likely to be complemented with the below business functions, and it's here that telemetry can enhance data quality ;

SMART sensors and ecosystems

Security Engineering

Solution Design

Quality Assurance

Spatial Intelligence

Object Orientated DevOp Methods

Departmental Data

Business Workflows

Commonly associated with Telemetry are Metrics, Events, Logs and Traces (MELT). Your overall business process that uses technology components should be able to produce basic MELT data - it's this data that will help you gain better efficiencies, and from a security perspective, it is likely here that indicators of compromise (IOC) or indicators of attack (IOA) can be better considered for behavioural analysis and anomalous activity detection.

What data will you need to validate that an IOC or IOA has affected your security operations policies, how can that data map to industry cyber categories within the Mitre Attack or Cyber Kill Chain models. These models typically feed off vendor logs; however, you can significantly enhance how these models enhance business resilience through better incident response and management activities - even automation efforts as they allow you to introduce a 'control signal' though the chain of command by a specific MELT ensemble.

The combination of telemetry with your own technology platforms can let you compliment your organisations security policies, so when you get an alert, its already qualified. SAIBER Ltd's SME Solutions Package will consider vantage points like these to give you the best security posture you can have.

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Data Discretion

Mon, 03 Aug 2020 18:21:07 GMT

What it means for Cyber Security?

For consumers it means they have better confidence that their business data has been considered to represent data privacy. For businesses it means they can better apply security controls during risk assessments as data is better categorised against actual business data sets, and for industry, it allows us to assess third party suppliers more granularly against data regulations.

In practice, the use of data discretion will let you better categorise for cyber solutions such as DLP, IAM, OWASP & WAF, SDLC and even DDOS. Historically you might have used all these solutions to monitor hardware and software compromises only, but now, the data layer of your ecosystem also needs monitoring. It has always been there, we just never had a need to strongly demonstrate how these solutions help with data monitoring, for example, for insurance purposes, how does your system guarantee that data remains within its applicable scope, what mechanisms do suppliers use to demonstrate data process is regulated for applicable laws.

It is only when you identify which data categories are applicable to your business processes can you then understand how the different technology abstract layers that you have will allow you to take your quantitative data so you can consider it like qualitative data by using relevant data attributes for predictive, interval, concept or heat mapping activities - at this point you can be sure that your selected cyber security control frameworks are going to better serve you as you know where to implement control mechanisms to mitigate your technology risks which interact with all your data classes, sets and reference categories.

Our packages at SAIBER Ltd take into consideration techniques such as data discretion by design already, so you can feel assured your data journey is aligned to your cyber security controls on a granular level for your product design, devops engineering, micro-services, giving you data based security operations so you can reflect this with ease into your polices, governance structure to have the security posture you deserve.

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Being Vendor Neutral

Sun, 26 Jul 2020 17:22:14 GMT

What it means for Cyber Security.

Executive: Didn't we just spend £millions upgrading IaaS, PaaS and SaaS?
You: Well, the vendor needs us to spend a little more to access the full security features and controls that we need.

This scenario is typical of most businesses, and demonstrates that you're only as secure as the products you use, and in some cases the products have become the weakest link in your business. We knew this already, yet somehow, we still manage to fail the external audit or experience the consequences of having mute-security controls that were meant to work 'straight out of the box'.

Being vendor neutral gives you a considered ability for broad compatibility, interoperability and changeability of products and technologies. Your technology selection should complement your proprietary designs with unbiased business practices. It's not always about following others in the market-place on which vendor solutions are used in each industry, but instead, what considerations are involved in your vendor selection process? Will it increase the internal capabilities of your team? will the solution allow you to have better governance or engage the diverse technologies of other economies? at what cost?

Vendor neutrality by design is not new but becoming a rediscovered design principal within cyber security especially as we become challenged to consider other influences within the vendor digital transaction and ecosystem such as privacy or data integrity. Your vendor selection should not limit your core business or have a need to up your resources skillset for the solution to work - you've paid a premium, the security controls within should 'just work' - and indeed some vendors today are giving value straight of out the box as they know your business definition of holistic-layered-defence is better complemented by their solution without any vendor lock-in mechanisms.

Of course, there are times when you must take the vendors lead, but if you can't explain why it helps with risk mitigation or operational success then you're already within the vendor lock-in zone and need to consider your vendor exit strategy.

It doesn't just mean to find the first open-source or open-systems provider in your industry, you have to consider how you are empowered by them to integrate platforms and systems through your business functions - you want to set trends, not follow them and for that you need qualified assistance where our products at SAIBER Ltd have already considered vendor neutrality by design and work alongside your business to ensure your cyber security posture progresses the right way.

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Data Sovereignty; Qualifying Data Transactions

Sun, 19 Jul 2020 19:09:19 GMT

What it means for Cyber Security.

Demonstrating how data processing principles effect your security controls for physical and virtual activities will give your products and services a sense of data ownership, responsibility and accountability - especially if you are using frameworks that help the mapping of security controls to regulatory concepts.

For consumers, controls should be transparent so once engaged with, they inherently satisfy confidentiality, integrity and availability functions.

For businesses, being aware of your data categories and how they are prioritised alongside core services will let you naturally satisfy confidentiality, integrity and availability considerations by making sure your security postures have the correct risk mechanisms in place letting you enterprise your data strategy with sovereignty in mind.

To be sovereign, your data strategy has to better clarify the scope of territorial data and how local governance is to be satisfied for any region. Only then can swifter indigenous transaction gateway points allow you to up sell globally - or vice versa.

Where if you are using gateway solutions, it is your responsibility to know where the data processing takes place and not only just risk assessing where server exists - you need to define why the transaction needs data to be processed by that gateway for the consumer, business and enterprise. Do your third-party specialists really need to process all that data through their international processing affiliations? How do their aggregate activities effect your data processing?

A good starting point is to define what do 'digital transactions' mean within your industry;

Hospitality.

Legal.

Accountancy.

Arts & Entertainments.

Marketing.

Logistical.

GP, Dental or Medical Services.

Once your industry trends are known, look at regional and local regulation bodies, how do they advise on data sovereignty, which data points consider functional and non-functional representation on how your data is processed within a typical defined aggregate transaction. This gives more clarity to your data categories, which will help you identify where are your sensitive data points really exist that primarily need to have risk controls applied, especially if your gateway is both your business controller or processor.

More importantly, does your DPO agree with the synthesised processing that might take place? Of course, if your DPO has taken a security by design approach then how are they assuring it works? For example, does you framework controls transcend through every local, regional, national and international transaction? How have you empowered the DPO to work with all transaction points? What options are provided for the data territory to demonstrate enforceable safeguards and adequacy decision process for effective legal adherence.

Is feeding into your risk register sufficiently going to meet the requirements for insurance mechanisms, and how will your operations team be able to promote cyber resilience activities - they need to implement the polices right ? You need to demonstrate uniform data usage across all boundaries that filter down for practical implementation i.e. backup mechanisms required for data residency, or how critical mass data needs are served through the policies.

The finance and legal executives will then want to know about how the data concepts and controls effect the international data waivers, pacts and privacy laws - what data strategy is in place for them to do their function for the business? If you are using DPIA's, BIA's and GDPR related questionnaires, how are the results assured?

SAIBER Ltd has Chartered Assurance Packages available which provide independent qualified assurance, audit and advisory services. Our other packages assist your understanding of data processing principals including data architecture and migration so that your data privacy and data security efforts can demonstrate your ability to keep your territorial data sovereign and more importantly make it easier for others to interact with your business.

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Digital Design Thinking With 'Locus of Control'

Tue, 14 Jul 2020 13:08:52 GMT

What it means for Cyber Security.

How businesses behave can be based on the perceived traits of consumers and clients, or professionally said, the personality construct of an entities belief system whose competency considerations attributes failure or success, so in today's new norm, how does your business operating environment consider;

•Perceived Control: Internal/External Locus of Control.

•Success Based Services: Risk Appetite Behaviour.

•Life Science Services: Consumer Traits & Influences.

•Patent Development: Marketplace Execution.

•Thematic Designs: Regulation & Framework Selection.

The term is mainly used within the psychology industry but it gives a welcomed sounding board for progressing your cyber security posture. The new low-touch economy and its use of cognitive last mile technology has heightened consumer needs, not only from a service delivery perspective, but also by innovating accessible technologies for health and well-being.

Overnight, the design of new products and industries has created the newest categories of data-disposition strategies and from our cyber security perspective it assists in clarifying applicable data privacy risks.

We've seen some concentric business units referred to as blobs or bubbles - these are now the new perimeters for technology that your design and privacy principals need to adapt to, including identifying applicable cyber security mechanisms.

If you are designing a new product or service, it is important to consider the functional traits and behaviours of new platforms and associated product interactions and how they represent risk perception. Consumers by necessity may need access to your new platform, but if the user design does not feel safe or the platform introduces technology risk, then your value is undermined. From a business view, it is important to understand the thematic and scientific telemetry -based thinking approach when considering what risk model is appropriate for your new product or service.

New modern smart solutions are extending the ‘just in time model’ of the 1980's to envelope consumer led customisation. It's only now possible as 5G, Internet of Things and Edge technologies provide the new foundations required to give consumers the ability to experience real time needs, but also select solutions based on their risk appetites.

Individuals with an 'internal' locus of control have higher propensity of adopting appropriate technologies, while those with an 'external' locus of control are less likely to adopt these newer technologies - 'Hierarchy Of Needs' play an important factor, so the reverse can be true too, and that's where design thinking is vital for your design and business resiliency.

Commonly, engineers adopt the view 'there is a design fault with the glass - not that it's half empty or half full'. Qualified design thinking will let you take digital logic into discrete thinking, so you can design for the multiple propensities of technology adoption. If you design a new pandemic-based solution, it is inherently going to have digital privacy techniques afore whilst also considering the perception of social distancing and other published pandemic standards.

Perhaps federated consent is mandatory across your technology ecosystem, if so, how will it be designed into your low-touch economy proposition? Getting it right now will mean you do not have an unmanageable list of compensatory controls within your risk register. Perhaps your new solution will use smart API's to connect the physical and virtual realities - if so, what assurances have you in place for data privacy against the new attach vectors,

Consumer technology must promote the concept of control, smart automatic lawn mowers only work once you have manually configured the garden range of the base unit - the user-based locus of control is simple here. For automated cars, the complex trait for each ecosystem vehicle-component needs to have applicable internal and external locus of control considerations applied correctly.

Whatever your industry, getting independent, qualified help in design thinking techniques will clarify your value proposition so your business can enterprise by design securely.

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Digital Transformation 2020: Innovating Business Basics

Fri, 10 Jul 2020 12:09:53 GMT

What it means for Cyber Security.

In this new norm, cyber security remains a non-functional requirement. By focusing on keeping your core business services lean, strategised and cost effective you can better overlay a lens of cyber security, or professionally said, review what non-functional requirements are required for your digitally transformed business and associated services.

From a customer perspective, you might have transformed services with increased functionality, usability or security enhancements;

From a business perspective, did you enable, humanise, harmonise and empower your business services to better work with new trends like Last Mile, Security Orchestration, Automation, & Response (SOAR), Big Data, Autonomous Robotics, Artificial Machine Intelligence (AI), Supplier API-Integration, Smart IoT, Cloud or Augmented Reality - it's only just beginning, so it's time to get comfortable with what 'security by design' means for you as you innovate your business;

From a cyber security perspective, your digital transformation plan should make sure your risk benefits are balanced for;

Obsolete Technology: Increased Risk (Legacy Technology Debt).

Technology Innovation: Risk Reduction (Optimised Business).

Decrease Failure Rate: Increase Business Resilience (Cost Efficiency).

New ways of working will inherently introduce new attack surfaces, so you need to understand how your risk appetite can effect your new energised business model - are you now augmented into an online-platform, or as a sole trader is your content on social platforms driving your core services, as a business are you providing flexible working mechanisms, increasing community volunteering activities or about to move away from pyramid structures to concentric business units. Every business purpose will have its own digital footprint and by knowing yours, you can demonstrate better cyber security accountability - who knows, you might even save on cyber insurance premiums.

Not only should you want to demonstrate transparently your digital responsibilities towards your brand but why not make it easier to integrate into customer supply chains by proactively encouraging digital sovereignty and a better cyber security posture with a better grasp of governance, risk and compliance.

If you're interacting with digital data or would like to get in touch, simply email info@RUCyberReady.UK to get the value based qualified cyber advisory you require. Our customised services are bespoke and designed to work alongside you, your suppliers, customers and clients. With many packages to choose from, SAIBER Ltd has made cyber security more accessible for everyone.

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