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Bugcrowd, the crowdsourced cybersecurity platform, has published its Inside the Mind of a Hacker ’21 report, which it says provides CIOs and CISOs valuable insight on ethical hackers and the economics of security research. Some new findings indicate a shift in the threat landscape with 8 out of 10 ethical hackers recently having identified a vulnerability they had never seen before.   The annual study offers an in-depth look at ethical hackers to reveal how...

Most careers might take an unexpected turn from time to time but very few people see the path of their entire professional existence re-wired, without warning, in a single morning.   One who did is Tracy Reinhold, now the chief security officer at critical event management company Everbridge, which has been described as the most successful security company nobody has heard of.   The morning was September 11, 2001, probably the first time in world history when a billion human beings alive at the time will be able to say without hesitation what they were doing on a single day. Most of us remember very little but this was an unwanted reminder that there are a few things about...

PICCASO - which stands for "Privacy, InfoSec, Culture Change & Awareness Societal Organisation" - is a Special Interest Group (SIG) founded by CEO Steve Wright at Privacy Culture Limited June 2021,  with the driving purpose of opening conversations about why and how a culture of privacy should be embedded into organisations and be at the heart of privacy compliance & strategy. By discussing specialised privacy topics such as Culture, Behaviour, Change & Communication, and looking...

Outpost24, an innovator in identifying and managing cybersecurity exposure, today announced the results of its 2021 Web Application Security for Healthcare report for the top 10 European pharmaceutical organisations, as ranked by Drugs Discovery and Development based on annual revenue, R&D spend, employee numbers, leadership and more. Using Outpost24’s external attack surface management tool, the study evaluates the digital footprint of the Top 10 pharmaceutical organisations in the EU by discovering their internet facing web services and scoring the security exposure identified. Nearly 80% of organisations studied were over what Outpost24 considers as ‘critically exposed’ – above 30, indicating a high susceptibility to having security...

What keeps OT security specialists up at night? It’s mostly problems from the IT world, says Andy Norton, European Cyber Risk Officer at Armis.   Operational technology (OT) used to be the specialist networks nobody in IT bothered with, or perhaps thought they didn’t need to. For a while, that seemed reasonable; OT networks were usually isolated from IT operations, sat behind air gaps, and ran on obscure operating systems.   Then organisations across every...

 Armis, the unified asset visibility and security platform provider, has formally announced its leadership in the OT / ICS cybersecurity category with the world’s leading enterprises after seeing a huge 400% increase in demand this past year. Only the Armis platform spans multiple verticals and can cater to the convergence of IT & OT. No other cybersecurity provider can secure OT, ICS, IT, IoT, IIoT & IoMT across multiple industries and sectors. Armis was rated...

New research by Tripwire has revealed security professionals working in the federal sector want the government to play a bigger role in securing non-governmental companies. The research report evaluated actions taken by the federal government to improve cybersecurity in 2021 and was conducted for Tripwire by Dimensional Research. It evaluated the opinions of 306 security professionals, including 103 currently working for a United States federal government agency, with direct responsibility for the security within their...

The nominations for the IT Security Guru’s Most Inspiring Women in Cyber awards are finally out! We were absolutely blown away by the number of quality candidates that have come through, all of whom have made phenomenal contributions to the cybersecurity industry. As a reminder, the public was invited to put forward an individual they find remarkable. Each nominee then had to answer a set of further questions to complete the nomination process. In no...

The nominations for the IT Security Guru’s Most Inspiring Women in Cyber awards are finally out! We were absolutely blown away by the number of quality candidates that have come through, all of whom have made phenomenal contributions to the cybersecurity industry. As a reminder, the public was invited to put forward an individual they find remarkable. Each nominee then had to answer a set of further questions to complete the nomination process. In no...

A new study from Obrela Security Industries has revealed that 76 percent of UK healthcare organisations would support the government introducing legislation to make it illegal for healthcare organisations to pay ransom demands to cybercriminals. The study was carried out in September 2021 and examined the attitudes of 100 cybersecurity managers in UK healthcare organisations. Other findings from the study revealed that 44 percent chose not to pay a ransom demand but lost their healthcare...