Opinion

By Keven Knight, CEO, Talion There is a quiet reckoning underway in cybersecurity, and most organisations are still pretending it’s not happening. The pressure on security leaders now exceeds what dashboards, frameworks and tooling can meaningfully contain. CISOs are being held accountable for outcomes shaped long before security is engaged. They are expected to prevent breaches they did not architect, mitigate risks they did not approve and explain failures rooted in decisions they were never...

By Robbie Ross, cyber security lead, Converged Communication Solutions It’s not if but when. This is a phrase that has been echoed across the cyber security industry for several years, but when it comes to ransomware the message is still not penetrating widely enough. The 2025 UK Government Cyber Breaches Survey highlighted that just 32% of organisations have adopted the technical controls required in all five key Cyber Essentials areas, and that only 27% of...

If you had asked me in 2024 how seriously firms were taking DORA, my honest answer would have been that only around the top 20 per cent of impacted organisations were truly focused on it. These were typically the more risk averse, forward thinking businesses that tend to move early on regulatory change. Even then, many struggled to embed DORA into compliance as usual activities, whether because of stretched resources, limited budgets or complications within...