PA Consulting Group Leads the Debate on Cyber Security, the Insider Threat and Strategic Protective Monitoring

LONDON, July 1, 2011 -

PA Consulting Group’s cyber security experts Ed Savage and Bill
Windle have spoken at IA11, the UK Government’s leadership event
for cyber security and information assurance, run by CESG/GCHQ.

As chairman of the conference stream ‘Managing information risk
in a cyber world - the human factor’, Ed Savage spoke about how
organisations can identify, recruit and retain the people they need
to improve their cyber security and protect business assets. Bill
Windle spoke about how
organisations can use strategic protective
monitoring to help manage the potential
threat from insiders within their organisation as part of an
integrated approach to cyber security. Bill drew on PA’s current
work with the UK government’s Centre of Protection for National
Infrastructure, where PA is helping to develop new national
guidance on a holistic approach to managing people, physical and
cyber risk in public and private sector organisations. 

Ed Savage, cyber security expert at PA Consulting Group, says:
“Cyber security, including people risk management and the insider
threat, has become a priority for governments and businesses alike.
Technical solutions are only one part of an effective defence;
organisations today need to take an integrated approach, that
includes people and organisational elements, in order to develop an
effective cyber security strategy. Protective monitoring, which
improves visibility and coherence across an organisation’s cyber
defences, is a key part of an effective defence, often
significantly boosting overall capability with relatively little
investment.”

To find out more about developing an effective cyber security
strategy and protecting your organisation from the insider threat,
please visit href="www.paconsulting.com/cybersecurity">www.paconsulting.com/cybersecurity

Notes to the editor

About PA Consulting Group

PA Consulting Group is a leading management and IT consulting
and technology firm. Independent and employee owned, we operate
globally in more than 30 countries and transform the performance of
major organisations in both the private and public sectors.

From initial idea generation and strategy development through to
detailed implementation, we deliver significant and tangible
results. We have outstanding technology development capability; a
unique breadth of skills from strategy to performance improvement,
from HR to IT; and strong expertise in communications, media and
entertainment, defence, energy, financial services, government and
public services, healthcare, manufacturing, transportation and
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