Analysis and perspective for organisations operating in environments where cybersecurity posture is subject to regulatory examination.
Our insights are drawn from active advisory work in regulated environments. What we publish is directly applicable to the challenges financial institutions and infrastructure operators face under examination.
Regulatory examination of cybersecurity has grown significantly more sophisticated. Understanding the framework examiners use reveals where most organisations are unprepared.
Many financial institutions complete SWIFT CSP self-assessments that do not reflect their actual control environment. The gap between attested and actual has significant regulatory implications.
A security incident that is managed well operationally can still become a serious regulatory problem if the response does not meet the notification and documentation requirements that regulators expect.
Regulatory guidance on board accountability for cybersecurity has shifted from advisory to prescriptive. Directors who cannot demonstrate engagement with cyber risk are personally exposed.
In a regulatory examination, a control that cannot be evidenced is treated as if it does not exist. Most organisations significantly underestimate how much of their posture falls into this category.
Following the Bank of Ghana's cybersecurity directive, examination findings across the sector reveal consistent patterns of non-defensibility that most institutions have not yet addressed.
Understanding the regulatory landscape is the first step. Assessing how your organisation stands within it is the next. The Defensibility Snapshot is where that assessment begins.
Request a Defensibility Snapshot"In regulated environments, cybersecurity is not judged by intention. It is judged by what can be demonstrated."