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Over 55% of IT Decision Makers in the UK believe there is a lack of young talent in their organisations. Addressing this gap in talent and encouraging more young people to study STEM subjects, was the focus of an expert panel discussion hosted at IP EXPO Europe 2016, in collaboration with Hewlett Packard Enterprise. The esteemed panel, chaired by Dr Sue Black, included TV personalities Maggie Philbin and Johnny Ball, Professor Will Stewart, Vice President...

The Security Serious Unsung Heroes Awards took place Tuesday night at St Bart’s Brewery in London and honoured those who work tirelessly to avert disasters from attacks against our critical national infrastructure, defend their networks from the daily onslaught of breaches and highlight the cyber pitfalls to educate everyone. The list of winners is below: CISO Supremo (sponsored by Varonis) Mark Jones, Allen & Overy Avtar Sehmbi, HSBC Dr Robert Coles, GSK Thom Langford, Publicis...

It’s long been recognised that women are underrepresented in technology—but global technology and cybersecurity association ISACA is seeking to change that. Deloitte Global projects that less than 25 percent of IT jobs in developed countries will be held by women at the close of 2016. With its new programme, Connecting Women Leaders in Technology, ISACA will offer a robust platform to attract more women into the technology professions, provide support tools to help advance and...

In the wake of changes to data liability regulations as part of the GDPR, companies face the challenge of unravelling their cloud supply chains in order to get the information they require to ensure compliance. A failure to audit suppliers regularly and probe the supply chain will have severe consequences. Transparency is therefore a key factor in ensuring that all parties involved have the required security mechanisms in place, says The Bunker. One of the...

With more than 9 in 10 organisations reporting a data breach in the last five years, businesses need to rapidly put measures in place to prevent the loss of Personal Identifiable Information (PII), especially with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) set to transform cyber security regulation in Europe with significant financial and legal (not to mention reputational) implications. A recent report from Lloyd’s, on what European businesses are doing to tackle cyber security, shows...

Latest research from online security firm Trend Micro revealed that although a vast majority (82%) of UK organisations consider ransomware a threat, a fifth (20%) of UK IT decision makers are unsure how the malware actually works. A further 11% have never heard of it. Only a third (33%) of UK IT decision makers rightly believe that the majority of ransomware infections originate from opening an attachment in an email, while a quarter (24%) believe...

The rhetoric that the data centre industry is dying is one of the biggest misconception within the IT industry, according to Greg McCulloch, CEO of Aegis Data. In fact, he states the opposite saying the colocation space is increasingly at the forefront when it comes to supporting new and innovative technology trends including cloud services and growing data volumes, across a host of dynamic and progressive markets. Speaking on a panel discussion at IP EXPO...

Employees and IT professionals in German organisations are more confident about their ability to resist the growing risks of cyberattacks and insider threats than their counterparts in the US, UK and France. Those are among the findings from a new study of more than 3,000 end-user employees and IT practitioners across the U.S. and Europe. The report was conducted by the Ponemon Institute and sponsored by Varonis Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:VRNS), a leading provider of software solutions...

Veracode, a leader in securing the world’s software, today released results from a survey of 500 IT decision makers working in cybersecurity, revealing that 83-percent of respondents have released code before testing or resolving security issues for bugs. Additional findings show that while the majority believe their organisation’s software and applications are secure, nearly half (44-percent) have still spent more than a million dollars on bug bounty programmes to catch vulnerabilities. Proactive, automated vulnerability detection...

According to the Corporate IT Security Risks 2016* study conducted by Kaspersky Lab and B2B International, a single DDoS attack can cost a company over $1.6 million, depending on how quickly the attack is detected. Companies of various sizes affected by DDoS attacks over the last 12 months were asked what costs they incurred as a result. It turned out that the biggest expenses for medium and large companies (20 per cent and 19 per...