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Today marks the day when Google makes good on its new policy to reserve the right to delete inactive accounts after two years of inactivity. The company defines activity as “actions you take when you sign in or while you’re signed in to your Google Account”: Reading or sending an email Using Google Drive Watching a YouTube video Sharing a photo Downloading an app Using Google Search Using Sign in with Google to sign in...

Let’s talk about women – and money. Today (22nd November 2023) marks the day that women effectively stop being paid for the year. Stop being paid against their male counterparts for the same work that they do – for the rest of the year. Yes, the rest of the year, for the same roles. Happy Equal Pay Day, I guess? What’s worse is that the tech industry's gender pay gap is 16% higher than the...

Today, Cato Networks, announced its recognition as a Leader in both the Frost Radar™: Global SASE, 2023 by Frost & Sullivan and the Market Radar: SASE 2023 by Omdia. “Once again, Cato Networks and our cloud-native SASE platform have been recognised by the industry for its innovation and leadership,” said Shlomo Kramer, founder and CEO of Cato Networks. “These distinctions from Frost & Sullivan and Omdia echo what we consistently hear from the thousands of...

This week, Lookout, Inc., is warning employees and businesses that phishing attacks across enterprise and personal devices are expected to more than double this week, based on historical data. With more corporate data residing in the cloud today and an increased number of employees working remotely, mobile has become the endpoint of choice for the modern workforce. However, since these devices have traditionally been neglected as part of a company’s overall security strategy, they have...

With the ever-growing threat of cyberattacks on the UK government and Critical National Infrastructure cyber safety matters more than ever. With the rising tide of ever-resent threat in mind, GovAssure was launched by the UK government in April 2023. It's a cyber security programme that aims to ensure government IT systems are fully protected from cyberattacks. The new cyber security scheme is run by the Cabinet Office’s Government Security Group (GSG), with input from the...

Today, Synopsys has released its 2023 Software Vulnerability Snapshot report, showcasing a notable decline in vulnerabilities within target applications. The Synopsys Cybersecurity Research Center (CyRC) analysed the data, revealing a decrease from 97% in 2020 to 83% in 2022. This positive trend suggests that practices such as code reviews, automated testing, and continuous integration are effectively reducing common programming errors. The report spans three years of data (2020 - 2022) obtained from tests conducted by...

As I step out of our London office at lunchtime, I’m bombarded with establishments that promote ‘wellness’ in their description. From the £12 salad bar to the yoga and meditation studio, the nail salon to the library, I’m faced with a plethora of options to contribute to my physical, social, mental or intellectual wellbeing. In post-pandemic times, it seems we’ve put more focus on making sure we have a balanced lifestyle. Wellness doesn’t stop in...

Salt Security, the API security company, has been named the winner of the API Security category in the 2023 CISO Choice Awards. Judged by a panel of distinguished CISOs at large organisations across the world, the CISO Choice Awards honour security vendors who provide top-tier differentiated security solutions, valuable to CISOs and their enterprises. Salt, utilising powerful cloud-scale big data and time-tested artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms, protects APIs across their full lifecycle and delivers the...

On 17th November a record number of Year 8 schoolgirls, government cyber specialists and business leaders will gather at one the UK’s leading cyber hotspots, for what will be the largest ever cybersecurity workshop in the UK. Now in its third year and hosted by the UK’s largest non-profit cybersecurity cluster, CyNam, this year’s #EmPowerCyber2023 event will be the biggest yet to inspire females to pursue a career in cyber. A thousand Year 8 schoolgirls...

Keeper Security, a provider of zero-trust and zero-knowledge cybersecurity software protecting passwords, passkeys, privileged access, secrets and remote connections, has announced that Keeper Secrets Manager (KSM) can now be integrated with ServiceNow. This integration enables enterprises to manage and protect their secrets with a fully managed, cloud-based platform that is both affordable and easy to deploy.   KSM is Keeper’s platform for securing infrastructure secrets such as API keys, database passwords, access keys, certificates and...