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With work still to be done to boost diversity and inclusion in cyber security, KPMG UK’s Katie Diacon unpacks where some of the challenges exist, and what could make a difference. Cyber security is one of the most innovative and dynamic sectors to work in, and it is increasingly vital to the operational resilience of organisations. Katie Diacon, Director, TMT Cyber Security, KPMG in the UK, says success in the sector requires “a great combination...

One Identity, the unified identity security company, has released global survey findings that unpack the current state of Zero Trust awareness and adoption across the enterprise. After a year plagued by one disastrous cybersecurity incident after another, new findings from One Identity reveal that only 1 in 5 security stakeholders are confident in their organisation's understanding of Zero Trust. According to the Dimensional Research-conducted survey of 1,009 IT security professionals, Zero Trust is a main...

Belfast based software consultancy firm Pytilia were selected as part of UK Research and Innovation’s (UKRI) ‘Digital Security by Design’ (DSbD) competition to deliver technologies that will improve software defences against cyber vulnerabilities. UKRI’s Digital Security by Design Challenge invests in projects that can help the UK’s digital computing infrastructure become more secure by design. A total of £700k funding was awarded to 10 UK based small to medium size businesses who each focused on...

Armis, the unified asset visibility and security platform provider, has released figures from a Freedom of Information (FOI) request to over 80 NHS Trusts that highlighted how compliance and device management complexities could be creating critical cybersecurity gaps. The study confirmed that while 85% had identified all devices, including medical devices, on the Trust’s network, 41% had no real-time risk register of these assets and one in three did not identify and monitor all medical...

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...