As organisations increasingly move critical applications, regulated customer data and development work into public cloud environments, 32% of UK organisations say the number one benefit for moving workloads to the cloud is to offload security risk. That is according to the findings of a survey carried out by CyberArk. This is despite many public cloud […]

IBL Group has addressed Office 365 email security challenges, including internal threats, thanks to Grove and Mimecast. Challenge The IBL Group is the largest conglomerate in Mauritius. Formed in 2016, IBL Group was born from the merger of GML and Ireland Blyth Limited, two of the largest conglomerates in Mauritius at the time. Today, it […]

Cybersecurity provider F-Secure is creating a new unit dedicated to building on the company’s tradition of providing industry leading protection. The new team, called the Tactical Defense Unit, comprises researchers and analysts responsible for operationalising holistic protection strategies that ensure F-Secure’s award-winning products and services evolve faster than the threats facing people and organisations. The […]

Kaspersky researchers have discovered that the money-stealing mobile malware Riltok has launched new variants and is extending its targeting from Russia to the rest of the world, starting with Europe, disguising itself as services which are popular in France, Italy and the United Kingdom. Riltkok was first observed in mid-2018. Riltok is a banking trojan. […]

Amazon Web Services Inc., an Amazon.com company, has announced the general availability of AWS Security Hub, a service that gives customers a central place to manage security and compliance across an AWS environment. AWS Security Hub aggregates, organises and prioritises security alerts – called findings – from AWS services such as Amazon GuardDuty, Amazon Inspector and Amazon […]

David Higgins, EMEA Technical Director at CyberArk, talks to us about the way companies and organisations should be managing data to avoid hefty fines. A report earlier this year by global law firm, DLA Piper, has shed fresh light on GDPR and the way high-profile data breaches have been reported across the EU, together with […]

Email continues to be one of the key attack vectors for cybercriminals. Fady Younes, Cybersecurity Director, Middle East and Africa, Cisco, tells us what the main risks are and how to mitigate these.  What are the most common problems and risks for businesses regarding email attacks? In May 2019, over 85% of all email was […]

As the world around us becomes increasingly connected, the attack surface is only set to grow. Dr Mike Lloyd, RedSeal, tells us why IoT is the latest headache for CISOs and offers some advice on how to secure it. There’s a saying in the security world:’if it’s on the network, it belongs to the CISO’. […]

Smiths Detection has won a contract with Meridian Port Services Limited (MPS) to provide cargo inspection technology for the major Tema Port Expansion project in Ghana – designed to accommodate the world’s largest container ships, improve cargo handling productivity and increase trade to both Ghana and the rest of Africa. Four Smiths Detection HCVPZ60 scanning portals […]

The first Cyber Resilience Summit for Mimecast customers and partners is set to take place from October 28 to 30 in Dallas, Texas. You can hear more about it via this video.