The Chartered Institute of Information Security (CIISec) and the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) are collaborating to give 300 students across the UK the best possible opportunity to kick-start their careers in cybersecurity. CIISec’s Cyber Extended Project Qualification (CyberEPQ), supported by DCMS, will open students’ access not only to skills and qualifications […]
Infrastructure protection is and remains a key issue. The publicised sabotage of fibre optic cables in Germany in 2022 provides vivid proof of this. Security of supply is also part of a current project by MOBOTIX AG and its long-time partner Peter Communication Systems. Together, they established a video surveillance solution on the Entega premises […]
Sophos, a global leader in innovating and delivering cybersecurity as a service, has published findings of a new survey, The Reality of SMB Cloud Security in 2022. The survey found that, among Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) users, 56% experienced an increase in the volume of attacks on their organisation when compared to the previous year and 67% […]
An investigation by the National Audit Office (NAO) has uncovered that 30% of applications used by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) are unsupported, having been developed with outdated software, increasing its security risk. The report revealed that Defra, the government department overseeing environmental protection, food production and rural communities, use an […]
It has been reported that it could soon be illegal for companies that fall victim to data breaches to pay ransoms to the hackers. The home affairs minister for the Australian Government, Clare O’Neil, confirmed that the organisation was examining whether new laws were needed to stop ransom payments in the wake of the Medibank and Optus […]
Chad Skipper, Global Security Technologist at VMware, offers expert advice outlining the comprehensive rulebook that will allow organisations to empower their security teams to face the challenges ahead as we enter into a new year. This year has been a headline year for critical data breaches and cyberattacks, overshadowing defence milestones achieved by security teams […]
Trellix, a cybersecurity company delivering Extended Detection and Response (XDR), has released its annual threat predictions report for 2023. Forecasts from the Trellix Advanced Research Centre anticipate spikes in geopolitically motivated attacks across Asia and Europe, hacktivism fuelled by tensions from opposing political parties and vulnerabilities in core software supply chains. “Analysing current trends is […]
Malwarebytes, a global leader in real-time cyber protection, has intensified its partnership with PRODATA, an established IT marketing and value-added distributor since 1992 across the African Continent and Europe, to bring industry-leading cloud-based security and cyber protection solutions to the African region. At a particularly crucial time for cybersecurity across Africa, PRODATA will become a […]
Hadi Jaafarawi, Managing Director – Middle East, Qualys, discusses the 10 key elements of a robust ‘platformisation’ approach to cybersecurity so that we can do more with less. Less is more. We all instinctively grasp the wisdom in the adage, but we don’t all live by it. According to IBM, the average enterprise has more […]
Zscaler, a leader in cloud security, found that more than 90% of IT leaders who have started their migration to the cloud have implemented, are implementing, or are planning to implement a Zero Trust security architecture. Supporting the mass migration to Zero Trust to secure users and the cloud, more than two-thirds (68%) believe that […]
