Netskope, a SASE leader, has announced it has attained the United Kingdom Government’s National Cybersecurity Centre (NCSC) core ‘Cyber Essentials’ certification. The NCSC was created in 2016 to support the most critical organisations in the UK; the public sector, industry, SMEs as well as the general public. When incidents occur, the NCSC provides effective incident […]

Veeam Software, a leader in backup solutions that delivers modern data protection, has launched a new, federal government-focused subsidiary, Veeam Government Solutions (VGS). As recent ransomware and cyberattacks are highlighting the potential impact of data loss to critical infrastructure, Veeam is strengthening its commitment to deliver modern data protection to the US government with additional industry […]

Lior Div, CEO and Co-founder, Cybereason, asks how the US government should respond to the threat of persistent and highly damaging cyberattacks and considers what strategies should be deployed to reverse the adversary advantage. In the past few months, we’ve faced massive attacks with SolarWinds and the HAFNIUM attacks targeting Microsoft Exchange, followed by the […]

Check Point Research (CPR) has identified and blocked an ongoing surveillance operation targeting a south-east Asian government. The attackers, believed to be a Chinese threat group by CPR, systematically sent weaponised documents – that impersonated other entities within the same government – to multiple members of the target government’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs. CPR suspects […]

Atos and Thales have announced the creation of Athea, a joint-venture that will develop a sovereign Big Data and Artificial Intelligence platform for public and private sector players in the defence, intelligence and internal state security communities. Athea will draw on the experience gained by both companies from the demonstration phase of the ARTEMIS programme, […]

Huawei, a global provider of information and communications technology (ICT) infrastructure and smart devices, is at GISEC 2021 from May 31 to June 2, where it’s showcasing its capabilities in smart government, cloud and 5G, all built around a robust cybersecurity foundation. Huawei regional executives are also contributing to various plenary sessions during the event […]

The FBI says that complaints concerning online scams and investment fraud have now reached a record-breaking level. The FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) received its 6 millionth complaint on May 15, 2021. While it took close to seven years for the IC3 to register its first one million reports, it took only 14 months […]

Viasat UK has announced the opening of its state-of-the-art Network Operations Centre (NOC) and Cybersecurity Operations Centre (CSOC) in Aldershot, UK. The facility will support defence, government and commercial organisations who rely on the guaranteed resilience of their networks and who are targeted by increasingly sophisticated cyberattacks from a growing number of adversaries. The NOC […]

The US Trade and Development Agency (USTDA) has awarded a grant to the Philippine Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) for technical assistance to upgrade its digital infrastructure and enhance services for millions of Filipinos. USTDA’s assistance continues a successful, decades-long partnership that has advanced priority information and communications technology infrastructure across the Philippines. “USTDA is […]

Norwegian Parliament, The Storting, has been the target of a cyberattack. The attack by unknown hackers was linked to a “vulnerability” in Microsoft’s Exchange software, the parliament said, adding that this was an “international problem.” Marianne Andreassen, Secretary General of the Storting, said: “We know that data has been extracted, but we do not have […]