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The latest research from McAfee reveals that British school education has played a major role in today’s cyber skills gap – leaving adults without sufficient IT skills and little to no insight into careers in cyber security.   Classroom inspiration In a survey of 2,000 UK-based respondents, McAfee found a clear link between school IT lessons and interest in cyber security roles. More than one in five (21%) British adults would have considered a career...

Retailers are responding to cyber attacks on average twice a week — this is according to the latest research from Zynstra, an enterprise-grade IT software provider. 16% of retailers said they experienced an attack or attempted attack every day, 11% said they responded 2-3 times per week, and 64% said once a month. The incidence of cyber attacks was found to be especially high in the grocery industry with 29% of respondents dealing with attempted...

Netskope, the leader in cloud security, today announced the release of the September 2017 Netskope Cloud Report™ on enterprise cloud service usage and trends. With the compliance deadline for the European Union General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) fast approaching in May 2018, this quarter’s report took a close look at GDPR readiness among enterprise cloud services, finding little change in level of preparedness compared with levels previously reported. Nearly three-quarters of cloud services still lack...

Anomali, today released the findings of its second annual Ponemon Institute study, revealing that organisations are still not actioning or sharing threat intelligence adequately, leaving them lagging behind cyber attackers. A third (33%) of UK organisations are not sharing information externally at all and 31% have no plans to join an industry sharing group. This is in stark contrast to cybercriminal communities who often share strategies and tools on Darknet marketplaces and underground forums.  ...

Millions of Brits are opposed to the introduction of driverless cars because they fear they will crash - and could be too easily hacked. Research revealed 44 per cent of motorists are against the space age vehicles hitting the nation's highways. Almost three-quarters feared a malfunction and a similar amount said they didn’t trust a computer to keep other drivers safe. Over half were worried the vehicles could be remotely hacked and 53 per cent...

Webinar: Neuro Diversity in the Cyber Security Industry Date: 6th October 2017 Time: 11:00am Duration: 75 minutes Speakers include: Brian Higgins, Business Development Manager at (ISC)²; Emma Jones, Employment Training and Partnerships Manager at The National Autistic Society; Solomon Gilbert, CEO and Head of Security Division at Ferox Security LTD. Throughout Security Serious Week this year, during the first week of October, it will be putting on webinars every day to tackle the theme of...

Nine in ten IT professionals in the UK are concerned with the security of the public cloud, and almost 20% do not deploy security for sensitive data stored outside the company’s infrastructure, according to a recent Bitdefender survey. Half of those surveyed admit cloud migration has significantly expanded the size of the border they have to defend, while only one in five encrypts already migrated data. These are some of the findings of a survey...

Imperva, Inc., committed to protecting business-critical data and applications in the cloud and on-premises, today announced that NTT TechnoCross Corporation, an IT services company, is using the Imperva Incapsula service to protect its website from cyberattacks. NTT TechnoCross deployed the Incapsula service across its customer-facing websites to ensure protection from business crippling DDoS attacks and malicious web application attacks using the service’s DDoS Protection and Web Application Firewall (WAF) features. NTT TechnoCross offers its customers advanced IT services...

The British Army has been able to make smarter use of data to transform how effective it is at managing its manpower and, crucially, prevent departures of key personnel. Working with SAS, the leader in analytics, the Army can now support the subjective decision-making of its leaders with a wider range of quality data, leading to more effective decisions and deployments.   The British Army is using SAS software and services to provide its leaders...

Webinar: Creative Employment in Cyber Security Date: 5th October 2017 Time: 11:00am Duration: 75 minutes Speakers include: Shan Lee, Information Security Officer at TransferWise; James Hadley, Founder/CEO of Immersive Labs; Vicki Gavin from The Economist Group; Emily Swiatek of NAS   Throughout Security Serious Week this year, during the first week of October, it will be putting on webinars every day to tackle the theme of “Building Awareness and Bridging the Cyber-Skills Gap through Creativity...