The Key to Cybersecurity is an Educated Workforce
The United Kingdom’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) handled a record number of cybersecurity incidents over the last year, a 20% increase in cases handled the year before. With the increasing number and more innovative nature of cyber attacks, businesses of all sizes must prioritise cybersecurity. However, the fundamental starting point of any organisation’s security infrastructure must […]
It’s Back to Basics During Cybersecurity Awareness Month
By Jonathan Couch, SVP of Strategy at ThreatQuotient This month marks the 17th year of Cyber Security Awareness Month, which focuses on helping provide individuals with resources they need to stay safer and more secure online. The COVID crisis brings added cybersecurity challenges, particularly on the “home front,” but also more opportunities for those of us who are security professionals to help […]
GUEST BLOG: Avoiding downtime in the throes of digital transformation
Adopting new technologies can certainly bring about an exciting transformation for any business. As well as streamlining operations, business can be rewarded with an elevation in productivity and uplift in bottom lines. But did you know that upgrading your business technologies runs the risk of increasing your cyber-attack surface? Bearing in mind that cyber-attacks against UK […]
Five steps to defending against and recovering from a cyber attack
By Alan Calder, Chief Executive of GRC International plc, parent company of IT Governance Given how commonplace cyber attacks have become on a global basis, the topic of cyber security is moving increasingly up the board agenda, and rightly so. 72% of large businesses in the UK said they had identified at least one cybersecurity breach in […]
Employees responsible for half of industrial networks cybersecurity incidents
52% of incidents affecting operational technology and industrial control system (OT/ICS) networks last year were caused by employee errors or unintentional actions. A Kaspersky report, State of Industrial Cybersecurity 2019, found this issue to be the result of the growing complexity of industrial infrastructures and a shortage of professionals who understand how to detect new […]
Bullguard launches smart home cybersecurity solution
Consumer cybersecurity expert Bullguard has launched Dojo, a comprehensive smart home cybersecurity solution. Dojo is the only consumer cybersecurity product built from the ground up as an enterprise-grade, network security service for the smart home. There are billions of connected Internet of Things devices on the market today – from smart alarms, thermostats, baby monitors, […]
Human decision making still the most trusted method in cybersecurity
A report aggregating insight from more then 400 interviews with leading cybersecurity researchers and security experts on Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML) and Non-Malware Attacks has found that 87 per cent of those polled still don’t trust AI or ML to replace human decision making in security. Commissioned by endpoint security specialists Carbon Black, […]