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Outpost24, an innovator in identifying and managing cybersecurity exposure, today announced the results of its 2021 Web Application Security for Healthcare report for the top 10 European pharmaceutical organisations, as ranked by Drugs Discovery and Development based on annual revenue, R&D spend, employee numbers, leadership and more. Using Outpost24’s external attack surface management tool, the study evaluates the digital footprint of the Top 10 pharmaceutical organisations in the EU by discovering their internet facing web services and scoring the security exposure identified. Nearly 80% of organisations studied were over what Outpost24 considers as ‘critically exposed’ – above 30, indicating a high susceptibility to having security...

A new partnership between Cisco and AT&T Cybersecurity sees Cisco’s secure access service edge (SASE) platform now available as a managed service from AT&T. AT&T SASE with Cisco is a converged network and security management solution that connects and protects enterprises with software-defined wide area networking (SD-WAN) technology and security capabilities. The comprehensive solution includes expert policy design and configuration, and 24/7 network management.  With AT&T SASE with Cisco, organisations can accelerate adoption of cloud-based...

What keeps OT security specialists up at night? It’s mostly problems from the IT world, says Andy Norton, European Cyber Risk Officer at Armis.   Operational technology (OT) used to be the specialist networks nobody in IT bothered with, or perhaps thought they didn’t need to. For a while, that seemed reasonable; OT networks were usually isolated from IT operations, sat behind air gaps, and ran on obscure operating systems.   Then organisations across every...

 Armis, the unified asset visibility and security platform provider, has formally announced its leadership in the OT / ICS cybersecurity category with the world’s leading enterprises after seeing a huge 400% increase in demand this past year. Only the Armis platform spans multiple verticals and can cater to the convergence of IT & OT. No other cybersecurity provider can secure OT, ICS, IT, IoT, IIoT & IoMT across multiple industries and sectors. Armis was rated...

New research by Tripwire has revealed security professionals working in the federal sector want the government to play a bigger role in securing non-governmental companies. The research report evaluated actions taken by the federal government to improve cybersecurity in 2021 and was conducted for Tripwire by Dimensional Research. It evaluated the opinions of 306 security professionals, including 103 currently working for a United States federal government agency, with direct responsibility for the security within their...

A new report has shown the energy sector is under immense cyber threat as hackers continue to target this vital industry. The threat report by Lookout shows that mobile phishing exposure had surged by 161% within the energy industry between the second half of 2020 and the first half of 2021. Further key findings include: 20% of energy employees were exposed to a mobile phishing attack in the first half of 2021, a 161% increase from...

Security Serious 2021 run by Eskenzi PR and sponsored by leading cybersecurity companies KnowBe4 and OneLogin, has officially set the Guinness World Records title for the Most views of a cyber security lesson video on YouTube in 24 hours. The training lesson achieved 2136 views and was presented by security experts Javvad Malik, lead security awareness advocate at KnowBe4 and Niamh Muldoon, global data protection officer at OneLogin, on the 14th of October 2021 during Cybersecurity Awareness Month and...

AT&T Cybersecurity has launched a dedicated managed Extended Detection and Response (XDR) offering which is available immediately. The AT&T Managed XDR solution features a cloud-based security platform with security threat analytics, machine learning, and third-party connectors to protect endpoint, network, and cloud assets with automated and orchestrated malware prevention, threat detection, and response. At a time where there are increasing complexities, attack surfaces are growing. At the same time, cybercriminals are turning to highly evasive and more lucrative strategies to exploit and profit from...

The sixth annual Security Serious Unsung Heroes Awards  winners were revealed last night in a celebration at St Bart’s Brewery in London. The annual awards celebrate the people, not products, of the cyber security industry. From the best ethical hackers, rising stars and educators to the best security awareness campaign, security team and the coveted Godparent of security, the categories recognised individuals and teams going above and beyond to protect Britain from cybercrime and raise awareness of security issues. The free event was the first...

Last week, Synopsys released the latest version of its Building Security In Maturity Model (BSIMM) report, entitled BSIMM12. Created to help organisations plan, execute, measure, and improve their software security initiatives, BSIMM12 reflects the software security practices observed across 128 firms from multiple industry verticals. This latest study encompasses data from financial services, FinTech, independent software vendors, cloud, healthcare, and Internet of Things and highlights the work of nearly 3,000 software security group members and over...