Saturday 10 November 2018

Basic HTML Meta Tags

I have been maintaining my own list of preferable meta tags and the content I usually include based on my practical experience and experimentation of what works best. Overtime, in this post I will be sharing some of the tags and how I am using them. 

In the meantime, I came across this post on GitHub, which I found very comprehensive and wanted to share it with you.

Tuesday 6 November 2018

OWASP Cambridge at Anglia Ruskin

I was invited by OWASP Cambridge and Adrian Winckles to present my talk "A holistic view on Cyber Security in evolutionary terms" hosted by the Cyber Security Networking & Big Data Research Group, Anglia Ruskin University. 

This evening is part of a series of evening events on raising awareness for local businesses & organisations on the issues of cyber security and cybercrime, what regulations and legislation do organisations need to be aware to protect themselves and what is considered best practice in these challenging times. read more

“Greg is an extremely motivational speaker in the cyber security sector who speaks with a passion accentuating the key messages and issues that the community needs to hear and understand” Adrian Winckles

Adrian Winckles
MSc BEng CEng CITP MBCS
Cyber Lead & Director of Cyber Security & Networking Research Group
(OWASP Cambridge Chapter Leader)
(UK Cyber Security Forum - Cambridge Cluster Chair)
(BCS Cybercrime Forensics Vice Chair)
Anglia Ruskin University
Twitter:  @botflowking

See Talk Details --->

Wednesday 24 October 2018

OWASP London at JP Morgan (NCSAM 2018)

Due to the fact October is considered National Cyber Security Awareness Month (aka NCSAM) we were planing an OWASP London Chapter meetup. The meetup was hosted by JP Morgan at Canary Wharf, and it was an opportunity to deliver a talk around Cyber Security and how (cyber)threats have been evolving over the years. 

This time our lineup of talk included:
  • "If You Liked It, You Should Have Put Security On It" - ZoĆ« Rose (@5683Monkey)
  • "Lessons From The Legion (The OWASP London Remix)" - Nick Drage (@SonOfSunTzu)
  • "A holistic view on Cyber Security in evolutionary terms (food-for-thought)" - Dr. Grigorios Fragkos (@drgfragkos)

Tuesday 2 October 2018

Cyber Security Awareness Month 2018



October is known as Cyber Security Awareness Month and in the US it is commonly referred as National Cyber Security Awareness Month (NCSAM). This is a global initiative to raise awareness on emerging Cyber threats and best practices to defend against them, while educating the public and the private sector, on how to tackle cyber security challenges in a fast-evolving digital ecosystem.
Security’ is the enabler for evolving and scaling up in a secure manner, while minimising the risk of being affected at an irrecoverable level.
Cyber Security is promoted at an impressive rate during this month, with several awareness campaigns taking place. Typically, these campaigns focus on giving advice around having best-in-class practices when it comes to Cyber Security, sharing thoughts around exposure to unnecessary risk and try to communicate the benefits from having a Cyber Resilience strategy in place, while discussions around defence-in-depth tend to spawn recommendations around different products and services that might help an organisation’s security practice. 

To achieve this, during October several events take place to engage and educate the information security community, while focusing on sharing knowledge, lessons learned, and forward-looking ideas.

Boardroom Briefing on Cyber Risk Exposure, in M&A and deal-flow scenarios

To understand and simplify the current Cyber Risk exposure in Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A), this article focuses on explaining the inner workings and what is currently the state of affairs in the Cyber front, from a deal-flow perspective, while being structured as an informative boardroom briefing. 
"Understanding the Cyber related risks in M&A in this digital era, is an 'investment metric' for a successful decision-making process"
Before jumping into specifics, and to put things in the right context, consider for a moment that every business entity is more or less similar to an alive ecosystem; that is composed of people, services, synergies, cooperation, products, ideas, technologies, dependencies, and advances on different fronts. Effectively, as business entities evolve, by adapting the digital model of operations, the nature of their risk exposure equally evolves due to the numerous emerging Cyber-threats.