Opinion

Cybersecurity has become one of the most defining business challenges of recent times. Organisations have invested heavily in protecting their networks, securing cloud environments and strengthening identity and access management. At the same time, organisations are under increasing pressure to prove they are handling sensitive information securely, not just storing it safely but protecting it throughout its journey. Yet despite this progress, one area continues to receive far less attention than it deserves: how data...

By Simon Phillips, CTO, CybaVerse Alert fatigue is an issue that has plagued Security Operations Centres for years. As organisations’ digital estates grow, there is more architecture to secure and more architecture for threat actors to attack, which has ultimately led to more alerts. Today, on average a SOC will face thousands of alerts every day, each of which could indicate a potential threat. Each alert must therefore be analysed and investigated before appropriate action...

2026 is touted as the year AI moves from speculation and interest to real-world deployment and value. Yet one global analyst firm predicts 40% of agentic AI projects will be canceled by the end of 2027, due to escalating costs, unclear business value or inadequate risk controls. It suggests more and better advice and an ecosystem of support are needed to make agentic projects a success, which must include addressing new security considerations. There are...

Smart buildings promise greater efficiency, improved sustainability and enhanced operational oversight. However, as building management systems, security platforms and energy infrastructure become increasingly interconnected, they also create new pathways for cyber threats that can disrupt physical operations as readily as digital services. Here, Peter Schwartz, senior technology consultant at cybersecurity expert OryxAlign, explains why organisations need to rethink how they manage cyber-physical risk in connected buildings.  As organisations continue to integrate building management systems, access...

Recent government data shows the scale of cyber threats facing security teams. According to the Cyber Security Breaches Survey 2025/2026, it’s estimated that UK businesses experienced 5.19million cyber crimes in the last 12 months. This means an average of over 14,000 incidents per day. The volume and frequency of threats show little sign of slowing. IT Security Guru recently reported a 34% increase in cyber attacks in June, compared with the same month last year. Every...

Compliance has long been characterised by what many security leaders now recognise as “audit chaos” –  a constant cycle of manual evidence collection, fragmented workflows and point-in-time reporting that struggles to match the pace of AI risk. In response, a new model is growing: agentic compliance. By embedding AI agents directly into trust and security workflows, organisations are beginning to move from reactive, audit-led processes to continuous, real-time assurance. These systems can coordinate tasks, collect...

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...