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70% Of Financial Companies Suffered A Cyber Security Incident In The Last 12 Months.

New research by data security company, Clearswift, reveals that 70% of financial companies have experienced a cyber security incident in the past year, highlighting the serious threat that both data breaches and malicious attacks pose to the UK’s financial sector. The research, which surveyed senior business decision makers within enterprise financial organisations in the UK, found that almost half of the incidents reported over the past 12 months originated from employees failing to follow security...

Tackling The Digital Identity Security Crisis With Biometric Fingerprint Technology.

By David Orme, Senior Vice President of IDEX Biometrics ASA Digital identity, also known as an amalgamation of information available online that can bind a persona to an individual, is changing the face of personal identity as we know it. In a similar way to its physical counterpart, digital identity can be used to authorise an individual’s access to something that may otherwise be restricted. In the online world, a username, email or password can...

Cyberfort Group Launches To Support Business Growth Through Cybersecurity.

As cyber-attacks continue to increase in sophistication, businesses urgently need to catch-up on detection and defence without compromising on commercial viability. Cyberfort Group, a new breed of cybersecurity provider, has launched to help businesses maximise growth while solving their biggest challenges with cybersecurity strategy. Cyberfort provides expert cyber advice and consultancy, alongside a comprehensive range of cybersecurity products and services. Its mission is to help organisations make better security decisions, achieve compliance and improve data...

Contis Establishes PSD2-Ready, Automated Fraud Detection In Record Time With Featurespace.

Featurespace, the leading provider of Adaptive Behavioral Analytics for fraud detection and risk management, announced the seamless, 92-day, on-premise enterprise delivery of its ARIC Fraud Hub with Contis, an award-winning banking, payments and processing solution provider. Contis selected Featurespace's ARIC Fraud Hub in late 2018 to detect and prevent transactional fraud in real-time and began its integration in January 2019. Within three months, Featurespace and Contis completed deployment and training within Contis' existing fraud prevention...

Endace And Micro Focus Partnership Delivers New Security Insights For Threat Hunting And Investigation.

Endace, specialists in high speed network recording and analytics hosting, today announced a new partnership with Micro Focus®. Alongside the partnership announcement, Endace and Micro Focus also announced new integration between ArcSight Enterprise Security Manager and the EndaceProbe™ Analytics Platform to deliver faster, more accurate response to cybersecurity threats. This integration dramatically reduces the time required for security analysts to respond to cybersecurity threats, at scale. Micro Focus ArcSight Enterprise Security Manager is a comprehensive...

Zero Trust Is Shaking Up VPN Strategies.

By Yogi Chandiramani, technical director EMEA at Zscaler The zero trust model has been developed because the distinction between “external” and “internal” areas of information systems has begun to blur. Private applications stand alongside their SaaS-based brethren, while the infrastructure transitions from virtualised servers in the data centre to services and apps residing on public clouds. Users are also changing. Not only are they quite often mobile, but they are also no longer strictly human...

Many CEOs Falsely Led To Believe Company Is GDPR Compliant.

Delphix, the data virtualisation platform, has found that companies in the UK are leading their CEO to believe they compliant with GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation), when they actually have significant amounts of unprotected personal data. This was revealed when Delphix spoke to custodians of data to hear what they have to say when it comes to balancing access to data with data security. Companies today are rushing to be more digital and for many...

AI: A New Era Of Cyber Threat Intelligence.

Byline: Neil Kell, Director of Evolve Security Solutions, part of the CSI As digital footprints widen and the value of data increases, so too does the risk for organisations. The latest Cyber Security Breaches survey reported that 43 per cent of UK businesses experienced a breach in the previous 12 months. This figure rises to 65 per cent in medium to large businesses. No sector is immune from cyber attacks and the increasing level of...

The Evolving Nature Of Cloud Load Balancing.

Written by Ronald Sens, EMEA Director at A10 Networks Load balancing of application traffic has been around for a long time. But, as more organisations move to the private and public cloud, it’s undergoing significant changes. Let’s look at some of the important considerations of this evolving technology. Three major requirements underline IT operations and DevOps today: agile, efficiency and, multi-cloud operations. Agile: The movement toward public cloud is arguably driven by an organisation’s desire...

Combatting The Cyber Threat To The UK Legal Sector.

Cyber crime remains one of the foremost risks to the legal sector. Targeted attacks against firms are on the rise, with 60% of law firms reported to have suffered an information security incident during 2018, and in 2017 alone, £11million of client money was taken. The threat is greater for larger firms, with 90% of the top 25 law firms and 73 of the top 100 having experienced a threat. The primary threats to the...