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A training capability to enable organisations to test and validate their cyber security in a safe, realistic and secure environment has been launched by Serco. Named cybX and affiliated to the Emergency Planning College (EPC) on behalf of the Cabinet Office, will offer organisations a hands-on technical and consequence management training programme against a cyber attack. According to the company, it is designed to test both IT staff and management teams on their ability to...

Microsoft's Interflow threat and information exchange platform has been described as a good move for collaborative working. According to a blog by Jerry Bryant, lead senior security strategist at Microsoft Security Response Center, Interflow is a “security and threat information exchange platform for analysts and researchers working in cyber security”. He said: “Interflow uses industry specifications to create an automated, machine-readable feed of threat and security information that can be shared across industries and groups...

More focus should be placed upon the techniques and ecosystem used to compromise businesses by attackers than why they are attacking in the first place. Speaking in the opening keynote at the OWASP conference, Jacob West, CTO of HP Enterprise Security Products, said that in the last decade we have seen security become an accepted key requirement of software, not one that is sprinkled around, but this has left the industry on a downward slope of costs....

CISO strategies are commonly built for two year plans. Speaking at the AppSec conference in Cambridge, Tobias Gondrom, OWASP Global Board Member and project lead for OWASP, featured highlights from the 2013 OWASP CISO survey report which found that there was more investment in application security than infrastructure. Gondrum said that 38 per cent of the 100 CISOs surveyed invested in infrastructure, compared to 47 per cent who invested in application security. He said that...

A focus on who is collecing data and those who do it, as well as services which “enable criminality” are in the eye of the National Crime Agency (NCA) and the National Cyber Crime Unit (NCCU). Speaking at the Cyber Security Conference in London, NCCU deputy head Lee Miles said that as cyber crime has escalated to those who are not “technically astute”, it needs to focus on the propietors of bullet proof hosting and...

The Government’s Cyber Streetwise campaign did show some increase in awareness amongst the public, but not among the small business sector. Speaking at the Cyber Security Conference in London, Peter Wilson, director of awareness and behaviour change at the Home Office, said he was satisfied with the adoption of the campaign by social media, banks and adults in the UK, but small to medium enterprises (SMEs) did not a sufficient rise in awareness success. He...

ENISA and Europol have formed a “strategic cooperation agreement” to facilitate closer cooperation and exchange of expertise in the fight against cyber crime.   Following the announcement by GCHQ of sharing classified information about threats to the UK’s most critical networks to trusted partners, and Microsoft launching the Interflow security and threat information exchange platform, this agreement will aim to enhance cooperation between Europol, its European Cybercrime Centre (EC3) and ENISA.   The agreement does...

ENISA and Europol have formed a “strategic cooperation agreement” to facilitate closer cooperation and exchange of expertise in the fight against cyber crime.   Following the announcement by GCHQ of sharing classified information about threats to the UK’s most critical networks to trusted partners, and Microsoft launching the Interflow security and threat information exchange platform, this agreement will aim to enhance cooperation between Europol, its European Cybercrime Centre (EC3) and ENISA.   The agreement does...

The Government's Cyber Streetwise campaign did show some increase in awareness amongst the public, but not among the small business sector. Speaking at the Cyber Security Conference in London, Peter Wilson, director of awareness and behaviour change at the Home Office, said he was satisfied with the adoption of the campaign by social media, banks and adults in the UK, but small to medium enterprises (SMEs) did not a sufficient rise in awareness success. He...