BBC: "Incident response isn't a paper you put on the shelf and just grab when someone starts screaming"

Stuart Sumner
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David Jones, head of information security at the BBC, explains how incident response works at the broadcaster, and stresses that organisations must move away from a blame culture when it comes to security breaches

The BBC, an organisation employing roughly 35,000 people worldwide, which sends and receives over 100 million emails monthly and has more than 70TB of email data stored, is under constant cyber att...

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