Earlier this month we hosted a Breakfast Briefing exploring how new technologies are making our lives easier, but also creating opportunities for malicious intent and user error. Blockchain, biometrics and cryptography are just some of the exciting advances we’ve made in recent years – technology that was thought of as sci-fi not so long ago. [...]
Here at Burning Tree we are looking forward to attending this year’s RSA Conference 2018. Taking place between 16 - 20 April in San Francisco, California; the RSA Conference is a highly anticipated event that we have found extremely valuable in the past. It’s common knowledge that information and cyber security never sleeps, we face [...]
There has been much excitement about Artificial Intelligence (AI) and it’s application in cyber security. Here at Burning Tree we are monitoring the technology closely to see where it can help our clients protect their business and data, and in what areas AI can improve information security. Many organisations already have some AI cyber security [...]
We started the New Year with yet another cyber security alert with the revelation of major flaws in computer chips. Known as ‘Meltdown’ and ‘Spectre’ these two bugs could allow your IT systems to be hacked. To clarify where the vulnerabilities lie: Meltdown affects laptops, desktop computers and Internet servers with Intel chips and ‘snoops’ [...]
One of the challenges of GDPR (the General Data Protection Regulation that comes into force in May 2018) is that organisations are left to interpret how GDPR impacts on their business and how best to comply. Many of the articles in GDPR are sufficiently vague and currently there is no standard or framework that can [...]
