Foresite, a SaaS cybersecurity solutions provider, has announced that Matt Gyde has been named Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. Gyde brings more than 25 years of leadership experience to Foresite and has led some of the largest companies in the cybersecurity industry. Current CEO Robin Mayo will stay with the company. Prior to joining Foresite, […]
Tenable has disclosed details of a serious vulnerability in Microsoft Teams discovered by its Zero-Day Research Team. By abusing PowerApps functionality (a separate product used within Teams for building and using custom business apps), threat actors could gain persistent read/write access to a victim user’s email, Teams chats, OneDrive, Sharepoint and a variety of other […]
Dmitry Dontov, CEO and Chief Architect of Spin Technology, considers the best ways to approach modern ransomware prevention in the modern workplace. Ransomware attacks grew by 435% in 2020 compared to 2019 and this increase is not expected to slow down anytime soon. To put that into perspective, ransomware attacks have outpaced the already massive […]
Leading food service retailer, McDonald’s, has announced that it has been the target of a data breach. The event affected customer data from Korea and Taiwan, but its cyber defences meant that the breach was quickly identified and there was no interruption caused to business operations. McDonald’s Corporation said in a statement: “McDonald’s understands the […]
Huawei opened its largest Global Cybersecurity and Privacy Protection Transparency Centre in Dongguan, China, with representatives from GSMA, SUSE, the British Standards Institution and regulators from the UAE and Indonesia speaking at the opening ceremony.Along with the opening of the new centre, Huawei also released its Product Cybersecurity Baseline, marking the first time the company […]
LogRhythm, the company powering today’s security operations centres (SOCs), has been selected by CDON, the Nordic region’s leading marketplace, to deploy its NextGen Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) Platform. The Sweden-based eCommerce marketplace chose the NextGen SIEM Platform to enable it to identify risk, proactively stop cyberattacks and increase its overall cyber-resiliency. The result […]
Former CEO of NTT Security to invest in ProVision, Foresite’s proprietary cybersecurity platform. Foresite, a SaaS cybersecurity solutions provider, has announced that Matt Gyde has been named Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. Gyde brings more than 25 years of leadership experience to Foresite and has led some of the largest companies in the cybersecurity industry. […]
Craig Sanderson, Vice President of Security Products at Infoblox Security Solutions, discusses the Infoblox Q1 2021 Cyberthreat Intelligence Report and tells us: “Threat actors will both innovate, adjust and sustain proven methods as 2021 unfolds.” The Infoblox Q1 2021 Cyberthreat Intelligence Report provides original research and insight into threats we observed leading up to and […]
The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) is responding to further ransomware attacks on the education sector by cybercriminals. The government body continues to respond to an increased number of ransomware attacks affecting education establishments in the UK, including schools, colleges and universities. On Wednesday June 2, 2021, The Skinners’ Kent Academy and Skinners’ Kent Primary […]
NHS Digital has defended wide-spread criticism about its plans to share patient data with third-parties. Fears grew around the confidentiality of patient data, but the organisation pointed out that patients can opt-out of the process. An NHS Digital spokesperson said: “Patient data is already used every day to plan and improve healthcare services, for research […]
