These are certainly unprecedented times. Following recent announcements, we appreciate that businesses have changed quite literally overnight. We have clients with empty buildings and no workers in attendance, while others have started to provide new products or services or deploy them in a different way. To this end, we wanted to drop you a note …
COVID-19: Insurance Disclosure and Risk Management Guidance Read More »
We are fully aware that recent events have led to unprecedented circumstances forcing most businesses and employees to relocate to working from home. Whilst, to some, this will not be completely unfamiliar, for the majority, the changed working environment could pose a couple of questions about your business security and insurances. Leaving Behind an Unoccupied …
The situation relating to the spread of a new Coronavirus strain from Wuhan in Hubei province in China continues to develop rapidly. Following the statement released on 31st January which highlighted Coronavirus as a known event from 22nd January 2020, the information below is intended to assist in responding to numerous questions clients may have. …
According to a recent survey carried out by Aon, eight out of 10 SMEs don’t see cyberattacks or data loss as a significant risk for their business and over half our still confused about the way GDPR rulings affects their business. A Hiscox report in 2019 surveyed more than 5,400 small, medium and large businesses …
Most businesses continue to exist in the dark about cyber risks and protection Read More »
Riskworks Business Services Ltd has joined the East Cheshire Hospice 500 Club. The 500 Club is a corporate commitment to raise £500 a year for three years. East Cheshire Hospice is a warm and welcoming space for adults facing life-limiting illnesses. They are committed to providing care, comfort and compassionate support to our patients and …
Riskworks joins the East Cheshire Hospice 500 Club Read More »
Gone are the days of swag bags and face masks, your modern-day criminal is difficult to spot in most cases, impossible to even identify. No longer are they lurking outside your door as it would seem they are progressively switching the use of a crowbar to a laptop or smartphone – something just at the …
Cybercriminals continue to squeeze the life out of SMEs Read More »
As businesses and organisations widen their digital online reliance, critical services and aspects of our daily lives and routines are increasingly enabled by vulnerable systems and processes. The threat to businesses is wide and varied with exposure to cyber-attacks such as commodity malware, ransomware, viruses, social engineering and numerous other threats that continue to antagonise …
Are you doing enough to protect your business from Cybersecurity threats? Read More »
Riskworks have teamed with security software and fraud prevention experts VaultConnect to help business leaders better understand their exposure and how to reduce the total cost of fraud and cyber attack. According to the Cyber Security Breaches Survey 2018, almost half of UK businesses suffered a cyber-attack or security breach in the last financial year. According …
Governments and industries worldwide are engaged in a race without a finish line. Adversaries will be continually adjusting their strategies and be identifying new targets and more destructive attacks. While there are many technological advances that will form part of the solution, businesses need to be looking at the organisation as a whole identifying the …
Cyber threats – How can companies brace for the storm? Read More »
Complying with the GDPR by 25 May 2018 is a business-wide challenge that will take time, tools, processes, and expertise. It may also require significant changes in an organisation’s privacy and data management practices. But focusing on the scramble to comply with GDPR, while important, misses the broader impact that compliance efforts are having. In …
GDPR compliance to strengthen overall cyber risk management. Read More »