Organisations cannot ring-fence themselves from hacking and malware attacks, but they can put sensible risk management measures in place to minimise their risk and respond quickly when an attack occurs

The insurance industry needs to better understand the cross-border, black market economy that drives the trade in stolen personal data

As with so many things the response to cyber breach is divided by the Atlantic, with the US and the UK expressing similar concerns but demonstrating quite different behaviours.

While cyber crime has a very high profile, one of the main lessons from the US is most of the problems involving data loss are internally driven, with simple carelessness either the direct cause of losses or a contributory factor.