Events

Hosted by Eskenzi PR and sponsored by KnowBe4 and Qualys, the European Cybersecurity Blogger Awards has announced this year’s winners and runners-up. The awards returned as an in-person event on the first evening of Infosecurity Europe (21st of June 2022) at Tapa Tapa restaurant right next to ExCel, following a two-year virtual hiatus over the pandemic. In its ninth year running, attendees were invited to celebrate some of the best bloggers, vloggers, podcasters and social media...

The pandemic tested the business resilience of every organisation. Small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) had to maximise their digital footprint to keep operational, service their customers and survive. Just as companies are starting to return to some semblance of new normal, another threat is on the horizon. The pandemic has fuelled an increase in cybercrime that shows no signs of abating. Small and medium sized enterprises caught in the cross hairs The speed with...

International Cyber Expo is where great cybersecurity minds come together to explore the issues of tomorrow's interconnected world. Held at Olympia London on the 27th - 28th September 2022, International Cyber Expo endeavours to be the go-to-meeting place for industry collaboration, where everyone from vetted senior cybersecurity buyers, government officials and entrepreneurs, to software developers and venture capitalists, are welcome to share their experiences, knowledge and resources with peers. Equally, the Expo will focus on...

International Cyber Expo has announced the members of this year’s event Advisory Council. Chaired by former CEO of the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), Professor Ciaran Martin, CB, the Advisory Council combines 30 of the cybersecurity’s most well-respected industry figures from government, private and academic sectors. The council is united by their shared passion and commitment to combating the issues of tomorrow's interconnected world. They will also shape the event’s agenda, drawing on their expertise...

“We have never been closer to a cataclysmic cyber event,” warns Nicole Perlroth, New York Times’ cybersecurity journalist, at this year’s KB4-Con in Orlando, Florida. Perlroth begins her talk by painting a picture of today’s sombre reality, highlighting the threat of Russian cyberattacks on our critical infrastructure and the latest discovery of Pipedream – the seventh known malware developed to disrupt industrial control systems. When she first joined NYT in 2010, Perlroth was hired to...

KB4Con 2022 ended on a high point as it involved an individual many of the attendees had been excited to hear from – someone who is widely considered to have coined the term hacking. It was none other than computing security consultant, author, “one-time world-most wanted hacker” and Chief Hacking Officer at KnowBe4, Kevin Mitnick. Kevin, who attend virtually via Zoom, was joined on stage by Colin Murphy, Chief Information Officer at KnowBe4. The talk...

Humanity has always embraced technology and, today, we are seeing increased IoT integration, cloud adoption and vast wave of remote workers who are connecting to more online infrastructures. However, this is leading many to question the cyber resiliency of organisations, particularly at a time when cyber-attacks are at an all-time high. In fact, according to respected engineer and technology author Peter Diamandis, “over the next ten years, we are going to see roughly 100 years...

“How strong is your security culture… and are you controlling it?” This is the question posed by Kai Roer, chief research officer and Perry Carpenter, chief strategy officer at KnowBe4 during their session entitled Security Awareness, Behaviour and Culture – The Key to Making it Work at KB4-Con in Orlando. The pair posited to the attendees of both partners and customers that security culture is widely regarded as a good thing by 94% of organisations...

Nineteen Group, organisers of the International Cyber Expo, today announces it has partnered with Queen’s Award for Enterprise winning technology PR agency, Eskenzi PR to help spread the word about the industry’s newest cybersecurity event.     Eskenzi PR has been a pillar within the industry for nearly three decades and brings a wealth of experience and expertise to the Nineteen Group team. The agency currently offers PR support for over thirty tech companies worldwide.     ...

The IT Security Guru has teamed up with Synopsys, a recognised leader in application security, to bring you the webinar, 'Secure Your Cloud Environment from Evolving Threats'. As the migration to the cloud continues at an unabated pace, the threats in the cloud are also increasing proportionally and evolving constantly. Data breaches, misconfiguration risks, weak identity and access management controls, insider threats, multi-cloud infrastructure, and increasing complexity are just a few of the many challenges...