Willis Group, the global risk adviser and insurance broker, is launching Cyber ATLAS, a complete security solution to help British companies combat the threat of cyber crime.
Designed to build resilience across an entire company, from the shop floor to the board of directors, Cyber ATLAS aims to provide e-learning for all levels of staff, an online self-audit allowing organisations to test their current levels of security and a 24/7 incident response service providing support and advice in the event of a cyber-breach.
Cyber ATLAS responds to a warning from the UK government that the cyber crime threat facing UK companies is increasing. The Department for Business Innovation and Skills said in November that it would be working with businesses to encourage them to make cyber security a board-level responsibility.
The platform was developed by Willis in conjunction with Nick Gibbons, cyber, information technology and intellectual property law specialist at BLM and Gordon Walker, lead investigator on IT claims at Charles Taylor and E-Security Exchange.
Jonathan Brooks, practice leader for FINEX National at Willis, said: “Cyber criminals know that larger multinationals have the infrastructure to fight cyber crime so they often target the IT network and vulnerabilities of a small company to get into the network of the multinational.”
BLM partner and cyber specialist, Nick Gibbons said: “Many of our large UK clients routinely ask their suppliers to provide written confirmation that their IT networks have good security protocols in place to protect data. It may seem obvious but any organisation that has a supply-chain is only as strong as the weakest link in that supply chain. The cyber age that we all now enjoy has also brought with it some very significant new risks.”
The Scottish Business Resilience Centre (SBRC) recently launched the E-Trader Award, an industry-recognised government standard which recognises businesses with good cyber security. Mandy Haeburn-Little, Director of the Scottish Business Resilience Centre endorses Cyber ATLAS as a means of achieving E-Trader status. Haeburn-Little said: “Cyber ATLAS represents a single, unified solution that helps companies build resilience against the threat of cyber crime.”
