Software house Mega achieves holistic SaaS security with Synopsys

With over five million lines of code and 2,000 open source libraries underpinning its flagship Hopex software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform, French software house Mega International has been working with security supplier Synopsys to... Read more »

EU must stand ground on cyber security, says Finland’s WithSecure

The European Union (EU) needs to take a stronger stance on cyber security, both to counter the growing wave of cyber crime and to confront the immediate threat of destabilising attacks from... Read more »

Executive interview: Jeetu Patel, general manager of collaboration and security, Cisco

Job and development opportunities for people globally are unevenly distributed, but human potential is not. If we want to solve the problems that plague human beings and businesses, we should leverage technology... Read more »

Security leaders call for more observability for cloud native apps

A global survey conducted by Coleman Parkes for Dynatrace has found that muticloud deployments are making IT security more complex. The survey, based on a poll of 1,300 chief information security officers... Read more »

What does the EU’s NIS 2 cyber directive cover?

For some, Friday 13 May 2022 would not be an auspicious date to make a significant announcement on the future of cyber security, but the European Union (EU) did just that. It... Read more »

The importance of making information security more accessible

For organisations today, information is freedom. Those that are able to extract, harness and protect their data will find it far easier to meet their objectives in today’s customer-centric, information-driven landscape. How... Read more »

Attack of the clones: the rise of identity theft on social media

Earlier this year, Derbyshire-based freelance model Elle Jones was informed by acquaintances that they had been contacted by someone claiming to be her. Investigating, Jones discovered an Instagram account had been created... Read more »

How cryptocurrency is bringing humanitarian value to Ukraine

Cryptocurrency has proved itself a valuable humanitarian tool. In the face of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the latter has received an estimated $100m in crypto donations. Recently, Ukraine’s deputy minister of digital transformation,... Read more »

Industrial systems not safe for the future, say Dutch ethical hackers

The strict separation between IT and operational technology (OT) networks in industrial environments is not sustainable for the future, according to two Dutch ethical hackers.   Daan Keuper and Thijs Alkemade recently won... Read more »

ICO calls for police to end ‘excessive collection’ of personal data from rape and assault victims

The UK’s privacy watchdog has called for police and the crown prosecutors to “immediately stop” the practice of collecting vast amounts of sensitive personal information from victims of rape and sexual assault.... Read more »