Europe

New SOC research reveals security teams overconfident in detecting cyberthreats

Exabeam, a Smarter SIEM company, has released its annual ‘2020 State of the SOC report,’ examining the processes and effectiveness of corporate security operations centres (SOCs). This year’s study reveals that 82% of SOCs are confident in the ability to detect cyberthreats, despite just 22% of...

Public Health England will keep some NHS Test and Trace data for 20 years

Public Health England (PHE) will keep personally identifiable information collected by NHS Test and Trace of people with COVID-19 symptoms for 20 years. The privacy notice from PHE also says it will keep the personally identifiable information collected on the contacts of people with COVID-19 but...

GDPR failings with home working Brits as law celebrates its second anniversary

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the toughest privacy and security law in the world, celebrated its second anniversary on Monday 25 May. Launched on May 25, 2018, GDPR was introduced to protect the data of anyone living, or doing business with, those in the European Union and...

Solving the cloud security conundrum

Cloud security is about securing the cloud through a combination of procedures, policies and technologies. Scott Manson, Managing Director – Middle East & Turkey, McAfee, explains how businesses can properly secure the cloud. If I had a dirham for every time I have heard a vendor say...