Earlier this year, the first part of this article was published. It’s a good place to start to learn why you want to understand your company’s attack surface. Websites and online databases tend to over-share – you should aim to limit this. But some...
Almost daily, we hear about how cyber threats and IT risks increase globally across industries. Sadly, the methods and tools used for IT risk management today do not deliver the consistent decision support that organizations need. On March 23rd 2023, we conducted a...
The International Standards Organization recently published an updated version of their guidance for information security risk management, but they have missed the mark entirely on quantitative methods. The ISO/IEC-27005 is one of the key standards published under the...
An important step in any IT risk management process is to clearly define the information assets in scope. But what is an information asset really? How can you best describe your important information assets? And why is it so important to spend time on establishing a...
Verden er i forandring. De seneste år har mindet os om, at verden er farlig og foranderlig. Det er blevet den nye normal. Krig i Europa, klimakatastrofer, problemer med makroøkonomien og cyberangreb for blot at nævne nogle af de udfordringer, samfundet står over for....
Inherent risk… residual risk… current risk? When your risk manager or regulatory affairs asks about your “inherent risk”, it highlights a fundamental flaw in qualitative risk assessments. Here’s why - and how to fix it. Although most of us engage in some form of risk...
Changing habits and mindsets take time and persistence. Especially within IT risk management. Again and again, we at ACI meet tonnes of objections to changing behaviour despite witnessing the benefits of moving from qualitative to quantitative. So, I felt...
Kommunikation er svær, også når det drejer sig om risiko for cyberangreb. Bestyrelse og direktion har brug for et klart beslutningsgrundlag, men ofte rammes der forbi med kommunikation, der er enten for teknisk eller for overordnet og abstrakt. Begge tilfælde er...
Hvad er fordelene ved kvantitative eller kvalitative risikovurderinger? Hvorfor og hvornår skal man vælge det ene fremfor det andet? Vi bringer her et gæsteindlæg fra Christian Willemoes, pensioneret CIO fra DLR Kredit, der deler sine betragtninger og erfaringer fra...
En dygtig offshore-ingeniør, som jeg samarbejdede med, gav mig et konkret eksempel på anvendelse af risikoappetit. Højden på en boreplatform sættes efter lovgivning og standarder, men også efter virksomhedens risikoappetit. Hvor stor en bølge skal platformen kunne...