COVID-19 has thrown a spanner in the works when it comes to operating the supply chain and organisations have been forced to adapt and plan for dramatic impacts up and down their supply chains. Richard Hibbert, CEO and Co-founder of SureCloud, provides his thoughts on the supply chain risks facing many organisations during the COVID-19 […]

New research has shown that malware, insecure networks and remote access top the list of concerns for enterprises as organizations embracing home working and hybrid IT face growing cyberthreats. The ongoing global pandemic that has led to massive levels of remote work and an increased use of hybrid IT systems is leading to greater insecurity […]

Events have thrown up a host of challenges that CIOs need to build a strategy for. Paul Chapman, CIO at Box, tells us: “Technology leaders need to lead the way in building a strategy to prepare teams for the future way of working and the rapidly evolving security landscape.”  In recent months, it’s become clear […]

Software tools are constantly offering new ways of working which enable organisations to compete. Patrick Carey, Director of Product Marketing at Synopsys, says that as the shape of software development continues to evolve, so too must the mechanisms to secure it. The first software development team I worked on operated on the follow mantra: Make […]

Ray Overby, CTO and co-founder of Key Resources, tells Intelligent CIO that CIOs and CISOs who surround themselves with the right support can make up for their own gaps in mainframe knowledge while building a more automated and effective mainframe security estate. Several years ago, the CIO at a major insurance company based in North […]

Raj Samani, Chief Scientist and Fellow at McAfee, shares his wealth of knowledge and best practice advice on how organisations can ensure they are protecting their operations and managing risk in the energy supply chain, and how to best detect and avoid breaches. Given its major role in the nation’s infrastructure, what unique challenges does […]

There seems to be a sense that human-activated data breaches are inevitable within the public sector, meaning risk appetite is set at a level that accepts a 25% breach risk. Tony Pepper, CEO, Egress, explains how the public sector can protect data and employees. Digital Transformation in the UK public sector has accelerated. Essential measures implemented to control COVID-19 […]

Kaspersky security solutions have reported on 28 million malware attacks in 2020 and 102 million detections of potentially unwanted programs (pornware, adware etc.) they have accounted for by the beginning of August 2020. These numbers show that it’s not only the malware that attacks users but also the ‘grey zone’ programs that grow in popularity […]

Seven in every 10 CISOs (71%) believe cyberwarfare is a threat to their organisation, and yet just over a fifth (22%) admit to not having a strategy in place to mitigate this risk. This is especially alarming during a period of unprecedented global disruption, as half of infosec professionals (50%) agree that the increase of […]

Cybersecurity expert, CrowdStrike, has released its CrowdStrike Falcon OverWatch 2020 Threat Hunting Report, which reveals the company has stopped 41,000 potential intrusions in the first half of 2020, compared to the 35,000 it saw in the whole of 2019. The report found that this significant increase is driven primarily by the continued acceleration of eCrime […]