Opinions & Analysis

By Chris Sherry, Regional Director, UKI and Northern Europe at ForeScout It doesn’t matter what industry organisations work within, cyber security has never been higher on their agenda. According to research from Beaming, UK businesses are attacked every 2.5 minutes, equalling 52,596 attacks every single quarter. This barrage of attack is unparalleled and rightly strikes fear into the heart of business owners up and down the country. But, what if bad actors become less concerned...

With breaches hitting our headlines almost on a daily basis, be it public or private, small or large, every organisation in the digital age has become vulnerable to an attack. As attackers always have the initiative, even the best-run company could suffer from a hack or data theft and 2018 has continued to make that very clear. According to Rob Norris, VP of Enterprise Cyber Security, Fujitsu EMEIA: “We always anticipated that 2018 was going...

Written by Bernard Parsons, CEO, Becrypt Whilst I am sure more details behind the Marriott data breach will slowly come to light over the coming months, there is already plenty to reflect on given the initial disclosures and accompanying hypotheses. With the prospects of regulatory fines and lawsuits looming, assimilating the sheer magnitude of the numbers involved is naturally alarming. Up to 500 million records containing personal and potentially financial information is quite staggering. In...

Tenable®, Inc., the Cyber Exposure company, today released the Measuring and Managing the Cyber Risks to Business Operations Report, an independent study conducted by Ponemon Institute. It found that 60 percent of organisations globally had suffered two or more business-disrupting cyber events — defined as cyber attacks causing data breaches or significant disruption and downtime to business operations, plant and operational equipment — in the last 24 months. Further, the vast majority of respondents (91...

by Jason Howells, Director EMEA, Barracuda MSP With new European data regulation being established this year and companies buying each other up left, right and centre, it surely came as no surprise to anyone that cybersecurity and industry consolidation continued to be hot topics for the EMEA IT channel in 2018. While it’s not a very controversial prediction, I really do not expect this to change in the next year or so. But what does...

By Reuven Harrison, CTO, Tufin The changing face of the firewall In 2019, we will see new cloud solutions providing security for public cloud coming from the traditional firewall vendors, following up on recent acquisitions of public cloud security companies. This trend is twofold. First, it is a response to the increasing shift of enterprises towards the cloud and their need for security in these environments. Second, the firewall vendors are also realizing the potential...

The Future Of Security With humans often marked as the weakest link in security, 2018 was exasperated by challenges due to the growth of mobility, BYOD, remote working and the gig economy. Looking at the next twelve months, AI is being touted as the pathway to protection; but as with many powerful tools, it can be used for both good and evil, as AI platforms become growingly favoured by cyber criminals too. We expect to...

Written by Anthony Perridge, ThreatQuotient For modern organisations operating today data has never been so valuable but, sadly, it is also a valuable commodity for cyber-criminals. The data held within your organisation is now more dynamic than ever and the bad news is, it actually gives hackers multiple entry points to initiate a cyber attack that can have terrible consequences for your organisation. This has led companies to turn to a defence-in-depth approach, implementing multiple...

Terrorist Related-Groups Will Attack Population Centers With Crimeware As A Service: While terrorist-related groups have been tormenting organizations and individuals for years, we anticipate more potentially destructive attacks in 2019. Instead of breaking systems with ransomware, adversaries will leverage new tools to conduct harmful assaults on targeted subjects and organizations. From attacks on data integrity that essentially kill computers to the point of mandatory hardware replacements, to leveraging new technology for physical assaults such as...

The Cybersecurity M&A Market Report from international technology mergers and acquisitions advisors, Hampleton Partners, outlines how high profile hacks, the global digitisation of business and new regulations are driving record transaction volumes and valuations, with 141 completed transactions by October this year, surpassing 2016 and 2017 levels. 2018 has seen nine big ticket deals in excess of $500m from buyers such as Thoma Bravo, Cisco, RELX, AT&T and Francisco Partners, which have generated attention to...