teissTalk: How effective is your security awareness programme?

teissTalk host Jenny Radcliffe was joined by Stuart Coulson of Hidden Text; James Hamon, Chief Information Security Officer, Financial Ombudsman Service; Veroniki Stamati, Information Security and Privacy Engineering Lead, Skyscanner; and Johan Dreyer, EMEA Field CTO, Mimecast.

Views on news

The news on NCSC urging businesses to review and re-design their BYOD strategies had a mixed reception by the panel. There is no denying that as life is bouncing back to normality the so called “just make it work!” mentality that helped businesses stay afloat during the pandemic needs revisiting.

Organisations have been taking long to design and implement their own BYOD policies with 51 per cent still not having any such policies in place by November 2020 according to a Bitglass study. The news article quoted senior platform researcher “LunaR”, who warned in a blog post that admin access to company resources given to BYOD users needs to be revoked immediately and reassigned in a premeditated fashion.