Global cyber education leader, Cybint, a BARBRI company, is expanding its presence and offerings in Italy through its new Cyber Center in Rome. Created in partnership with local organisation, Done and Done, the new Cyber Center will provide cybersecurity and cyber intelligence education and training solutions for businesses, higher education institutions and government agencies throughout […]

Cylus, the provider of specialised cybersecurity solutions for the evolving railway, has announced its selection to the Thales cybersecurity programme in Paris, taking place at the new 34,000-square-meter Station F campus. Thales chose 11 candidates from a large pool of applicants to participate in its prestigious cybersecurity programme. Over a period of six months, Cylus […]

The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA), the world’s leading organisation dedicated to defining standards, certifications and best practices to help ensure a secure cloud computing environment, has announced that in response to rapid membership growth throughout the region, it will be opening a new CSA Europe headquarters and with it, creating a new General Data Protection […]

HackerOne, a leading hacker-powered security platform, has announced the General Service Administration’s (GSA) Technology Transformation Service (TTS) has awarded the company a multi-year contract to run a bug bounty programme. GSA was the first federal civilian agency to engage in a bug bounty programme and continues their ongoing momentum with this latest bug bounty contract. This news […]

Raytheon Company, a technology and innovation leader specialising in defence, civil government and cybersecurity solutions, has been awarded a multi-year contract with a new government customer in the Middle East North Africa region.  Raytheon’s intelligence, information and services business will provide advanced cybersecurity solutions and associated training, knowledge transfer and operational and sustainment support. Dave […]

U Account, a leading fin-tech solutions provider, has deployed six applications from the SureCloud GDPR Suite to enable the business to achieve and maintain compliance with the EU’s GDPR that came into force in May 2018. U Account selected the SureCloud GDPR Suite, delivered from the SureCloud Platform, after it demonstrated the ability to link […]

Oman Arab Bank (OAB) has been presented with an award recognising its outstanding cybersecurity practices. A ceremony organised by the bank, saw Trend Micro representatives handing out the award and certificates at the OAB Head Office. Ghulam Basheer, Head of the IT Security Department at OAB, said: “Being a financial institution, security has always been our […]

With unprepared businesses ending up on the firing line, Michael Colin, Sales Director at telecommunications service provider BitCo, offers five ‘easy-to-implement’ defence mechanisms. Naivety and ignorance are no longer valid excuses and owners of small and medium-sized organisations in every sector are under even more pressure to comply with data protection requirements as well as […]

According to research, there has been a significant increase in major divestment activity in the UK – despite the uncertainty of factors such as Brexit. Justin Coker, Vice President EMEA, Skybox, identifies the key questions that CISOs should be asking themselves to ensure their organisations are secure and compliant throughout a divestiture. Against the backdrop […]

Forcepoint, a global cybersecurity leader, has announced the creation of a new business unit to specifically meet the security challenges faced by critical infrastructure providers in today’s sophisticated threat landscape. The Forcepoint Critical Infrastructure business will leverage the full capability set of the company’s Global Governments and Enterprise Security businesses to deliver defence-grade cybersecurity offerings […]