UK joins key allies to launch secure-by-design guidelines

The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has joined with its counterparts in Australia, Canada, Germany, the Netherlands, New Zealand and the US to launch a guide containing advice to help technology... Read more »

6 open source GRC tools compliance professionals should know

Compliance professionals know that governance, risk and compliance efforts don’t often get the appropriate level… of consideration when it comes to securing investment dollars for software tools and new funding for process... Read more »

Italy to lift ChatGPT ban subject to new data protection controls

Italy’s privacy and data protection regulator will lift its recently imposed ban on OpenAI’s ChatGPT service at the end of April 2023 if the service implements a series of measures to address... Read more »

With cyber attacks on the rise, businesses should prepare for quantum hacks now

The world is on the cusp of a revolution in quantum technology. Investment in quantum R&D reached $1.7bn in 2021 – a 20 times increase from five years prior, and in 2022,... Read more »

Netskope claims hybrid work ‘revolution’ with SASE client and endpoint SD-WAN

Arguing that as organisations apply modern application management needs to meet the demands of hybrid work, they often battle poor user experience, inconsistent policy, insufficient security and the limitations of legacy network... Read more »

The CIO challenges brought by e-commerce in Kuwait

For better or for worse, the mall culture in Kuwait has prevented growth in online shopping for the past two decades. After all, it’s always nice to go out and see people,... Read more »

Gartner: Rebalance cyber investment towards human-centric elements

In creating and implementing cyber security programmes, security leaders must rethink how they balance their investments to prioritise so-called human-centric security in line with industry trends, according to analysts at Gartner. To... Read more »

April Patch Tuesday fixes zero-day used to deliver ransomware

A newly discovered zero-day vulnerability in the Microsoft Common Log File System (CLFS) – which is being exploited as part of an attack chain delivering the Nokoyawa ransomware – is among nearly... Read more »

Anne Keast-Butler named as new director of GCHQ

MI5 deputy director general and long-serving intelligence expert Anne Keast-Butler has been named as the next director of GCHQ, succeeding the outgoing Jeremy Fleming. Keast-Butler, who becomes the first woman to lead... Read more »

KFC, Pizza Hut data stolen in January ransomware attack

Yum!, the US-based parent organisation of KFC and Pizza Hut, has written to a number of employees whose data was stolen by the undisclosed ransomware gang that attacked its systems in January... Read more »