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Identity management implications and how organisations can properly manage their identity

Venafi, inventor and a leading provider of machine identity management, has announced the findings of a global study of 1,000 CIOs, which shows that Digital Transformation is driving an average of 42% annual growth in the number of machine identities. Because CIOs often have limited visibility into the number of machine identities on their networks […]


Security Service Edge (SSE) and the future of cloud security

Sundaram Lakshmanan, CTO of SASE Products at Lookout, explains what SSE is, its three core principles and how it differs from SASE, as well as how enterprises can get the most out of SSE with the integration of endpoint security, and advanced users and data protection capabilities. To run an efficient business that enables your […]


WithSecure cofounds CYBERSPACE project to counter cybercrime in Europe

WithSecure, formerly known as F-Secure Business, and 10 other European organisations have cofounded the CYBERSPACE project. The project is a three-year initiative funded by the European Commission to support European law enforcement agencies and improve their capacity to investigate and counter cybercrime.    The project begins at a time when cybercrime is becoming an increasingly pressing […]


Companies bracing for over 500,000 machine identities within their organization by 2024

New research from Venafi details the proliferation of machine identities resulting in increased outages and breaches. Venafi, the inventor and leading provider of machine identity management, has announced the findings of a global CIO survey outlining the average number of machine identities per organization at the end of 2021, which reached nearly a quarter of […]


Ukraine says it thwarted Russian cyberattack on electricity grid

Nozomi Networks has provided insights from Ukraine’s defeat of a Russian cyberattack attempting to disrupt critical infrastructure. The hackers were targeting the electricity grid and related facilities, which would have severely damaged Ukraine’s defences. The attack, believed to be carried out by a Russian military supported group called ‘Sandworm’, is another effort to shut down […]


Stress Awareness Month: Turning Talk into Action

April is Stress Awareness month, a month designed to highlight the dangers of the modern stress epidemic. As Anne Tiedemann, SVP People & Investor Relations at Glasswall, said: “Stress is unavoidable and the workplace is often one of the most stressful environments that we experience. Research by the CIPD found that 79% of HR leaders […]


Zscaler unveils Security Service Edge innovations to protect enterprises from sophisticated cyberattacks

Zscaler, a leader in cloud security, has advanced its Security Service Edge (SSE) framework with three Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) innovations for IT and security teams to confidently replace legacy firewalls and VPNs. Delivered as part of the Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange, these innovations establish a new standard for ZTNA to minimise the attack surface and prevent […]


Bad actors innovate, extort and launch 9.7M DDoS attacks in 2021, according to report

NETSCOUT Systems has announced findings from its bi-annual Threat Intelligence Report. During the second half of 2021, cybercriminals launched approximately 4.4 million Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks, bringing the total number of DDoS attacks in 2021 to 9.75 million. These attacks represent a 3% decrease from the record number set during the height of […]


CrowdStrike and Mandiant form partnership to protect organisations against cyberthreats

CrowdStrike, a leader in cloud-delivered protection of endpoints, cloud workloads, identity and data and Mandiant, have announced a strategic partnership that will help joint customers investigate, remediate and defend against increasingly sophisticated cybersecurity events that plague organisations globally. As part of the collaboration, Mandiant will utilise the CrowdStrike Falcon platform and subscription offerings for its […]


One in five businesses have paid or would pay a ransom for their data

New research from Thales has found that malware, ransomware and phishing continues to plague global organisations. In fact, one in five (21%) have experienced a ransomware attack in the last year, with 43% of those experiencing a significant impact on operations. First seen in the late 1980s, with the PC Cyborg Virus, the frequency and […]


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