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2022 has been another huge year for cybersecurity. The teenage cybercriminal gang Lapsus$ wreaked havoc on some of the world’s largest corporations, the Russo-Ukrainian conflict brought the prospect of all-out cyber warfare terrifyingly close to fruition, and hackers stole an unprecedented amount of cryptocurrency. In spite of this - or, perhaps, because of this - the cybersecurity industry has enjoyed significant growth over 2022, bucking a global trend of economic deterioration. With this in mind,...

Cato Networks, provider of the world's leading single-vendor SASE platform, announced today that Frank Rauch joins Cato as Global Channel Chief. Rauch's appointment headlines several channel leadership hirings and promotions meant to meet the growing channel demand for SASE and SSE. As Global Channel Chief, Frank will be responsible for driving the channel ecosystem globally, enabling partners everywhere to profit from the enterprise shift to cloud-native networking and security. With more than 30 years of leadership...

According to new research by Keeper Security, the public sector’s digital infrastructure is a key target for cyberattackers in an age of global political turmoil and increasing macroeconomic instability, particularly as digital infrastructure underpins nearly every essential public sector function from emergency services to government authorities.   The Government and Public Sector Cybersecurity Census Report revealed that, on average, organisations in the public sector experience 44 cyberattacks each year—more than three every month—and more than...

Ransomware attacks are hitting organisations every day and infrastructure & operations (I&O) leaders are aggressively bolstering protection, detection and response capabilities against attacks. However, questions remain as to whether existing disaster recovery (DR) and business continuity plans are sufficient for ransomware recovery. To address this, I&O Leaders must consider five areas between the two recovery approaches, to better establish whether existing plans can withstand a potential ransomware attack. Similarities and Differences Traditional DR and ransomware...

Since 2014, the US government has suffered 822 breaches affecting nearly 175 million records. Based on the average cost per breached record (as reported by IBM each year), Comparitech estimate these breaches have cost government entities over $26 billion from 2014 to October 2022. In 2018 and 2019, the number of government breaches hit an all-time high with 116 and 118 breaches respectively. In 2020, breaches decreased to 107 before increasing again to 116 in...

Barrier Networks, a Cybersecurity Managed Service Provider, has announced it has entered into a new partnership with Zurich Resilience Solutions, part of Zurich UK, to help businesses improve their cyber resilience. Zurich Resilience Solutions (ZRS) provides underwriting assurance to underwriters to help them better understand cyber risk and exposures of client environments, as well as cyber risk and resilience advisory services to clients to improve cyber resilience. Barrier compliments ZRS internal cyber risk advisory services, offering...

Last night, the winners of this year's Most Inspiring Women in Cyber Awards were revealed during a glittering ceremony at the BT Tower in London. Organised by Eskenzi PR and sponsored by Beazley, BT, KPMG and KnowBe4, the awards celebrated the accomplishments of twenty of the most inspirational women across the globe working in IT and encouraging more women into the industry. Five other “Ones to Watch” were chosen to represent women new to the...

As the cyber skills gap widens to record new levels, disruptive cybersecurity training and upskilling platform, Hack The Box (HTB), has announced its annual global University ‘Capture the Flag’ (CTF) competition that will take place from 2nd - 4th December 2022.      This year’s event, which is open to students and academics at higher education institutions worldwide, is designed to inspire and prepare a new generation of security professionals to join the fight against...

Leading IT solutions provider, CGI, brought its Cyber Escape experience to Lincoln as a part of a UK-wide tour. The escape room-style experience allowed staff, students, and local organisations to learn about online security risks in a fun and interactive way. CGI’s Cyber Escape was hosted at the University of Lincoln, where staff and students were invited to visit the experience and put their knowledge to the test in a simulated “real-life” setting.  Teams from the Lincolnshire Community...

With the 2022 Qatar World Cup now underway, Specops Software, a leading provider of password management and user authentication solutions, has today released its findings which observed the commonality of passwords that contained a likely player, country or World Cup-related term within a password. According to the research by Specops, which analysed over 800 million compromised passwords (a subset of a larger list included within its Breached Password Protection list of over 3 billion passwords), it was found ‘Kane’, possibly in reference to England forward Harry Kane, was third in the list of most popular names. In total, Kane appeared within breached password lists over 133,000 times. Digging deeper into...