Writes Bryan Mills
ASSURE
As I reported in my December note, we achieved our first ASSURE order. This is now completed, and our report has formed the basis of the client’s successful first audit, which has been accepted by the Civil Aviation Authority.
As I explained previously, this is only the beginning of the CAA’s requirement, which includes bringing an aviation company’s cybersecurity fully up to the standards set out in the Cyber Assessment Framework (CAF) for Aviation. In due course, aviation companies must not only submit themselves for audit but also ensure their supply chain also measures up.
We still have a couple more live prospects, and the aviation industry in the UK is slowly coming out of the COVID nightmare and thinking what the future will require. The CAA and the Dept for Transport have just introduced a new compulsory training programme, which we are intending to supply. In addition to ASSURE, we have also been working on a new service product which we think will have global prospects and which can be delivered remotely.
Covid Pandemic
As the pandemic is gradually reduced to managing a routine virus like influenza or measles, the opportunities for the bad guys to attack us will not reduce, but rather increase. This makes the new TalentLMS e-learning system about which Lorraine Halliday recently emailed us all, a valuable new weapon in our armoury – please learn from it.
