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With years of experience in network monitoring and anomaly detection, Flowmon strengthens its operations in the field of SCADA/IoT security. The security challenges that SCADA/IoT face are ones that Flowmon’s universal network approach can take in its stride. The proper functioning of industrial control systems lies behind crucial processes, such as energy distribution, water management and public transport. According to a report by European Union Agency for Network and Information Security, these systems that were...

Organisations are putting themselves at risk of breaching the GDPR because they’re failing to realise that the new regulations cover their CCTV systems and the visual data they collect. These are the words of Andrew Charlesworth, Reader in IT Law at the University of Bristol, and come just over six months until the GDPR becomes law1.   In a white paper written for Cloudview, Charlesworth says that because CCTV systems have been lightly regulated until...

By the time they are 15¾, most young women in Europe, Israel, and the US have already decided against a career in cybersecurity. This, according to a new study by Kaspersky Lab, is a major contributing factor to the industry’s continued struggle to attract female recruits, as it attempts to both narrow the gender gap in IT security and also address the growing skills shortage.   Earlier this year, Frost and Sullivan predicted there would...

A new report by design, engineering and project management consultancy, Atkins, has found that a risk adverse culture within the infrastructure sector and a lack of certainty about which new technologies to invest in could cost the UK millions of pounds in efficiency savings and restrict the ability of its businesses to capitalise on the global digital revolution. Atkins became a member of the SNC-Lavalin Group on July 3, 2017.   Atkins surveyed leaders from...

IntSights Cyber Intelligence, the industry’s first and only enterprise threat management provider that transforms tailored threat intelligence into automated security operations, today released its latest threat intelligence trend report, Messaging Applications: The New Dark Web. The research suggests that the recent crackdown on popular dark web markets AlphaBay and Hansa is driving cybercriminals to migrate to messaging apps Discord, ICQ, Skype, Telegram and Whatsapp.   “The anonymity promised by dark web networks such as TOR...

Capgemini, in conjunction with LinkedIn, the world’s largest professional network, today released a new global report on the digital talent gap, which analyses the demand and supply of talent with specific digital skills and the availability of digital roles across multiple industries and countries. The report, “The Digital Talent Gap—Are Companies Doing Enough?” reveals the concerns felt by employees when assessing their own digital skills and the lack of training resources currently available to them...

Vectra, the leader in automating the hunt for in-progress cyber-attacks, and Phantom, the leader in security automation and orchestration, today announced a partnership to automate threat detection and response, and the availability of the Vectra App for Phantom.   “Faster incident response is critical, but faced with a severe shortage of cybersecurity skills, enterprises are turning to security operations and analytics platform architecture, or SOAPA,” said Jon Oltsik, senior principal analyst at the Enterprise Strategy Group. “This...

 DomainTools, the leader in domain name and DNS-based cyber threat intelligence, today announced the results of a survey which found that nearly all (98 percent) of the UK population shops online and nearly a third (29 percent) plans to shop on Cyber Monday. This is despite the fact that one in five admitted to having already been caught out by an online scam. With this in mind, DomainTools wants to remind the UK to shop...

At the ConnectWise IT Nation Conference,  AlienVault®, a leading provider of Unified Security Management® and crowd-sourced threat intelligence, and ConnectWise®, a company that transforms how technology solution providers build, manage, and grow their businesses, announced a new product integration. This partnership makes AlienVault USM Anywhere™ available to ConnectWise technology solution providers (TSPs) within ConnectWise Manage™, enabling them to expand their offerings to include threat detection, incident response and compliance management services. “The collaboration between AlienVault...

The healthcare sector must have its finger on the pulse when it comes to Cyber Security. The ransomware attack that left the NHS reeling this summer not only exposed significant structural weaknesses in the service’s IT systems, but also the depth to which cybercriminals will sink to meet their goals. With such precious work as that performed by Children’s Hospice South West (CHSW), a disruption of the scale of a coordinated cyber-attack is unthinkable, and...