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By Trevor J Morgan, product manager at comforte AG The cloud is an incredibly useful tool for businesses and enterprises that process huge amounts of information. Over recent years, cloud adoption has increased substantially. Indeed, the public cloud service market is expected to reach $623.3 billion by 2023 worldwide as more businesses look to expand operations but lack the tools or resources to deploy inhouse cloud operations. This is especially true for enterprises that process...

People come into cyber security from a wide range of backgrounds, but the usual image is of a core cadre of techies depicted as having progressed from being boys in bedrooms hacking into games –  but that’s not true, rather, it was only ever part of the picture, with women also involved in every step of the nascent cyber security industry. Joan D Pepin, Chief Security Officer at AuthO is a great example. She explains...

As the cyber and physical worlds collide and interact, so the defences in each are now integrating with an example this month being the merger between Jazz Networks, a cybersecurity insider threat detection and response company, and Vaion, an end-to-end video security provider to form Ava Security. Tormod Ree, CEO of Ava Security commented: “The only way to protect against hybrid cyber and physical security threats is to have a solution that can connect the...

Image: Commodore Grace M. Hopper On Thursday 8th October the 25 most inspiring women in cyber security in the UK for 2020 will be honoured in an online event designed to highlight their achievements and inspire the next generation of women active or considering a career in cyber security. You can nominate someone who inspires you, or you can self-nominate to further publicise the work you do, the causes you support and the organisations you...

In the 2020 “Security Culture Report”, data was collected from 120,050 employees in 1,107 organisations across 24 countries. There was a total of 17 industry sectors examined in detail and results revealed a large gap between the best performers and the poor performers when it comes to security culture. Only 7% of the analysed organisations have demonstrated a good security culture. The majority, 92%, were found to have developed a moderate security culture. The study...

The field of cybersecurity can be a somewhat unforgiving working environment. Bad actors will quite literally stop at nothing to wreak havoc for their own personal gain, financial or otherwise. Unfortunately, no public holiday or even pandemic, offers a hiatus from their malicious pursuits. Security professionals are burdened with unrelenting pressure to protect their organisation; all whilst likely understaffed. Moreover, keeping cyber safe is often an expectation that is taken for granted. It would seem...

Lindy Cameron, the first woman CEO of the National Cyber Security Centre – a public facing division of GCHQ and primary technical authority on cybersecurity - is replacing its first CEO, Ciaran Martin, when he steps down on 31 August. Cameron will then formally become CEO in October following a handover period. Cameron has excellent credentials for the role with more than twenty years’ experience in national security policy and crisis management. These include responsibility...

KnowBe4, the provider of the world’s largest security awareness training and simulated phishing platform, has released a new report that explores how and why the reputation of security departments have traditionally been perceived as “The Department of No.”   This new report, authored by Javvad Malik, security awareness advocate at KnowBe4, explains how many security teams face a reputational challenge within their organisations. Because they are responsible for the well-being of the organisation at large,...

We are now more than halfway through the year, and what a crazy half it has been, both in terms of the global pandemic but also when you consider the volatile climate that the cybersecurity industry finds itself in. We wanted to find out what trends had been seen, how organisations should go about ensuring security is being kept as a priority, the impact Covid-19 will have and the importance of having a strong security...

Individuals and  entities from North Korea, China and Russia, responsible for or involved in 'WannaCry', 'NotPetya', 'Operation Cloud Hopper' and the OPCW (Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons) cyber attacks have been identified and received travel bans and an asset freeze in the first ever imposition of restrictive sanctions by the EU Council.  People and entities in the EU are also forbidden from making funds available to those listed. In a public statement the EU says: “In order to...