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The 25th July 2026 marks one year since the Online Safety Act's landmark child safety duties came into force, making it a natural moment to assess what's changed, what's worked and what challenges remain. Although the Act itself received Royal Assent in October 2023, its requirements were introduced in phases, with 25th July 2025 being the date many of the most visible obligations on platforms took effect. The child safety duties require platforms likely to...

The Forescout 2026 H1 Threat Review found that more than 37,000 vulnerabilities were published during the first six months of the year, representing a 51% increase year on year. More than half were classified as high or critical severity, while ransomware attack claims rose by 25% to 4,544 incidents, averaging 25 attacks every day. The report, published by Forescout Research – Vedere Labs, analysed more than 37,000 vulnerabilities, over 1,000 tracked threat actors and thousands...

Today (20 July 2026), Andy Burnham became Prime Minister of the UK, succeeding Sir Keir Starmer. While there is not yet a detailed 'Burnham tech strategy', pre-transition briefings and reports over recent weeks suggest a strong focus on AI, including plans for a dedicated AI Minister, the scrapping of the hotly debated digital ID programme, and the potential reorganisation of the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT), with its responsibilities redistributed across other government...

The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has unveiled plans for Cyber Shield, an ambitious initiative that aims to use agentic artificial intelligence to transform the nation's cyber defenses and counter increasingly sophisticated cyber threats. The proposal forms part of a broader effort by the NCSC and the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) to build a national scale, AI powered cyber defense capability that can detect, analyze, and eventually respond to attacks at machine...

Cybersecurity has never been higher on the business agenda. As organisations face increasing threat challenges, rising compliance expectations and growing pressure to demonstrate resilience, the conversation is shifting beyond technology alone. Businesses are looking for practical guidance, trusted expertise and long-term partners who can help them manage cyber risk with confidence. Following the launch of WorkNest Secure, the new specialist cybersecurity, information security and data protection division within WorkNest Group, The Gurus caught up with...

Synthetic media has moved from technical curiosity to mainstream threat in just a few years, with deepfakes now cheap enough to produce that a free app and a handful of seconds of scraped audio can generate convincing fakes. The consequences stretch well beyond political misinformation: corporate fraud running into tens of millions of dollars, biometric security checks being bypassed, and a largely under-reported epidemic of non-consensual intimate imagery. As regulation in the EU, UK and US...

The last time I spoke with Securonix, it was to discuss its acquisition of ThreatQuotient, adding a threat intelligence capability to its existing portfolio of security analytics, threat detection and incident response through its cloud-native Unified Defense SIEM. Several months on from that announcement, new steps have been taken to enable a wider user base, alongside the launch of new capabilities designed to support AI measurement and management. The combination of unified SIEM and managed...

VerifyLabs.AI, a UK-based AI detection company founded in 2025, has launched its Android app, making its Deepfake Detector available across both major mobile operating systems (Android and iOS).   The Android release allows users to analyse images, audio, and video signs of AI-generated content from their mobile devices. The company is also now developing desktop applications for Mac and Windows, with plugins already available for enterprise users on Zoom and Microsoft Teams.  The Deepfake Detector can analyse content uploaded and then provide results using a five-band scale ranging from green (Human-Made) to red (Machine-Made). The app tools include:  Detecting AI-generated images, audio, and videos.  A five-band verdict...

Like many, I love KnowBe4’s The Inside Man series. So when series director Jim Shields and writer Robert McCollum stood on stage at the UK Premiere for Season 7 (held at the glitzy Odeon LUXE in Leicester Square, in an affair that could rival any of the Summer’s blockbusters) and said that they’d always planned to wrap the show up after seven series, I found myself abhorred. Personally, I’m not quite ready to let go...

Keeper Security recently released findings from a survey that explored how organisations manage AI-driven and non-human access. Insights from the in-person survey of cybersecurity professionals at Infosecurity Europe 2026 in London suggest that AI agents and Non-Human Identities (NHIs) are becoming more common in enterprise environments, while the governance approaches to handle them have been falling behind. Infosecurity Europe is one of the largest information security conferences in Europe, attracting practitioners, CISOs, and other security professionals to London each year. The survey conducted by Keeper collected responses...