UK plc sees fewer cyber breaches and attacks, but lacks resilience

The volume of cyber security breaches and other attacks against UK organisations seems to have dropped, with 32% of businesses and 24% of charities recalling incidents during the past 12 months, down... Read more »

firewall

What is a firewall? A firewall is a network security device that prevents unauthorized access to a network. It inspects incoming and outgoing traffic using a set of security rules to identify... Read more »

Surrey and Sussex police spared fines after recording 200,000 phone calls without people’s knowledge

The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has issued Surrey Police and Sussex Police with reprimands after finding that officers had unlawfully used a mobile phone app to covertly record more than 200,000 phone... Read more »

CyberUK 23: NCSC launches Cyber Advisor service for SMEs

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) that all too often lack the time, money or staff to implement appropriate cyber security policies and protections can now benefit from a new industry assurance scheme... Read more »

CyberUK 23: NCSC CEO calls for collaboration and warns against complacency

NCSC CEO Lindy Cameron has opened the agency’s annual CyberUK conference in Belfast with a call for collaboration across the industry and a reminder not to succumb to complacency, saying that the... Read more »

Global finance firms take part in NATO cyber attack simulation

Global financial services businesses are taking part in an annual NATO cyber security exercise which tests the resilience of critical national infrastructures. A total of 29 financial services organisations, including Barclays, Santander... Read more »

Cisco urges users to keep its network hardware up-to-date

Cisco has warned enterprise users of its routing and switching hardware to be on the alert for exploitation of a six-year-old vulnerability by nation-state threat actors linked to states such as Russia... Read more »

CyberUK 23: Alert over mercenary Russian threat to CNI

On the opening morning of its CyberUK conference in Belfast, the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has issued an alert to operators of critical national infrastructure (CNI) across the UK, concerning... Read more »

Enterprise networking sees age of SASE and network as a service

The rapid shift to cloud services and the complexity in dealing with the a hybrid workforce have changed how modern IT leaders view network and security, and network and security leaders must investing in... Read more »

Cloud identity: Are you who you say you are?

Recent years have seen an increasing number of companies adopting cloud-based technologies, with cloud spending predicted by Gartner to climb 20.7% in 2023, approaching $600bn (£482.2bn). Such cloud adoption is due to... Read more »