Intelligent CISO Issue 08 | Page 6

news Global Mimecast receives award for continuity and resilience product imecast, a leading email and data security company, has been awarded best ‘Continuity and Resilience Provider Service/Product’ at the 2018 BCI Global Awards. M Mimecast received recognition for providing an outstanding service and product, relevant to the continuity and resilience profession. This award follows Mimecast being recognised at the BCI Africa Awards 2018 for Mimecast Mailbox Continuity. In the event of a sudden or planned email outage, Mimecast Mailbox Continuity is designed to provide uninterrupted access to live and historic email and attachments from the Mimecast cloud using everyday tools like Microsoft Outlook for Windows web and mobile applications. Employees get access to email – from anywhere, on any device. Administrators can monitor email flow, receive alerts and manage a continuity event quickly and easily from just about anywhere. In 2017, Mimecast supported thousands of customers globally to protect against more than 2,900 days with email disruption, saving an estimated US$9 million in economic activity based on a typical 25% productivity loss. Mimecast is certified to ISO22301 for business continuity preparedness. 6 EU CYBERSECURITY ORGANISATIONS AGREE ON 2019 ROADMAP our leading European cybersecurity organisations have agreed on a roadmap for 2019. F On November 6, following a meeting at working level, the four principals of the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between Europol, the European Union Agency for Network and Information Security (ENISA), the European Defence Agency (EDA) and the Computer Emergency Response Team for the EU Institutions, Agencies and Bodies (CERT-EU), met at CERT-EU’s premises. The purpose of the meeting was to update each other on relevant developments and assess the progress made under the MoU, which provides a cooperation framework aiming at leveraging synergies between the four organisations to achieve a safe and open cyberspace. The four partners also agreed on a roadmap prepared by the MoU working group with concrete activities and deliverables throughout 2019. The initial focus will be on working closer in the areas of training and cyberexercises, building the cooperation capacity and the improved exchange of information on respective projects and events with a view to complementing the work of the four partners and avoiding the duplication of efforts. The principals agreed that this was a major milestone in entering a new era of working together and an important first step in putting the cooperation framework into practice. Issue 08 | www.intelligentciso.com