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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...

If you are looking to advertise your business online, then you might be wondering: Is SEO better than paid ads? Paid ads and SEO both promote brands on the SERP, but how do they compare? SEO aims to boost your website's organic ranking in search engine results pages, while PPC promotes your site content via keyword phrases. Ultimately, both methods have their advantages and disadvantages. Learn the pros and cons of each type of marketing...

On 16 April 2022, the ContiNews ransomware PR site posted the gang's newest victim: the Ministry of Finance of Costa Rica. Three days later, the post was updated with a sample of the stolen data, and a threat to continue attacks against Costa Rican agencies unless the government paid a requested ransom of $10 million. On April 21, the post was updated to include the URLs of two more compromised government departments - the Ministry...

AT&T has introduced AT&T SASE with Cisco Meraki. Designed to provide businesses of nearly any size and industry with a powerful networking and security offering, this new managed service helps organisations improve network performance, enable resilient access and defend sensitive data. The service also helps protect against unauthorised use and loss while delivering flexibility for customers as their networking environments evolve due to business growth, location expansion and changes in strategy.   “In network connectivity...

  Armis, the unified asset visibility and security platform, disclosed five critical vulnerabilities, known as TLStorm 2.0, in the implementation of TLS communications in multiple models of network switches. The vulnerabilities stem from a similar design flaw identified in the TLStorm vulnerabilities (discovered earlier this year by Armis), expanding the reach of TLStorm to millions of additional enterprise-grade network infrastructure devices.   In March 2022, Armis first disclosed TLStorm—three critical vulnerabilities in APC Smart-UPS devices....

In the last decade, data science has become one of the most popular and in-demand fields of work. Data scientists are some of the highest-paid professionals in the world, and they get to use their skills to solve interesting problems. If you're thinking about becoming a data scientist, here are four reasons who it is one of the best fields to get into:   1. High demand On a global scale, governments and world superpowers...

Yesterday, Synopsys, Inc. announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire WhiteHat Security, a leading provider of application security Software-as-a-Service (SaaS). The addition of WhiteHat Security will provide Synopsys with significant SaaS capabilities and market-segment-leading dynamic application security testing (DAST) technology to strengthen what is considered one of the industry's broadest application security testing portfolio. Synopsys and WhiteHat Security, which was acquired by NTT Security Corporation in 2019, share a vision for delivering SaaS-based security...

Whether it’s Office 365, Salesforce, Slack, GitHub or Zoom, all SaaS apps include a host of security features designed to protect the business and its data. The job of ensuring that these apps’ security settings are properly configured falls on the security team. The challenge lies within how burdensome this responsibility is: Each app has tens or hundreds of security settings to configure. In addition, there is a continuous need for updates to the global...

“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...

Today, live from KB4-Con, Knowbe4's CEO Stu Sjouwerman welcomed KnowBe4 partners and customers to the event and introduced the concept of HDR, or Human Detection and Response to attendees. Similar to the already recognised industry buzz phrase XDR that encapsulates all security defences with the end goal of reducing complexity through integration of many cybersecurity tools – HDR integrates security layers from a human perspective.   Stu’s vision for HDR sees the correlation of real-world...