INTERVIEW
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have. Our obligations are to the victim.
It’s the same in cyber crime as they are with any other type of crime. Naturally, if we do bring a person to court, we might need a company involved to provide a statement, but that happens quite far down the process. And if it’s the case that the source of the attack is overseas, that may not happen at all.
CSE: Enterprise IT and information security is now subject to a growing range of legislation, like the EU General Data Protection Regulation. Do you see signs that GDPR in particular has had a change-eff ect on how some businesses manage their cyber security?
BR: It’s too early to tell, but it cannot be a coincidence that there’s been an increase in reporting of signifi cant cyber incidents since GDPR came into eff ect [in May 2018]. Look at the number of incidents referred to the NCA (as a subsection of the overall cyber crime reporting mechanism) in
CSE: These days more c-suite- board- level executives and other non- technical chief offi cers are being drawn into IT security governance decision-making. Is this having a discernible eff ect on cyber defensive strategy, within the National Crime Agency’s experience?
BR: Yes, I think that it is. Part of the key to good cyber security is a multidisciplinary approach. You need to bring diverse skills and expertise together to try and better understand the threats being faced. What I’ve seen work really well is when you have Threat Intelligence (TI) professionals and an
organisation’s Security Operations
Centre (SOC) completely joined-up and working in tandem. This is key. It’s important that the threats the SOC deals with on a day-to-day basis, and the further-out analysis by TI of cyber threats coming down the line, need to be aligned – because, otherwise, senior management will get two sets of reports that say diff erent things. So it needs to
the month after GDPR came into force, and you’ll see a step-change in the number of notifi cations received. It grew steeply through June 2018. That can’t be coincidence. GDPR does not mandate reporting to law enforcement – but my guess is that organisations think, ‘OK, if we are reporting the incident to the regulator, we might as well inform the police at the same time’.
be connected. The other related mindset – that’s also absolutely critical – is how communications around cyber security incidents are managed.
CSE: In terms of post-incident information sharing, you mean?
BR: Yes. One of the key critical success factors that I often see is good stakeholder management through very well-planned
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