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Over the past five years, The Most Inspiring Women in Cyber Awards have celebrated some of the most exceptional women from across the cybersecurity industry. From new starters and students to CEOs and CISOs, the awards aim to celebrate outstanding individuals at every level of the industry. No deed is too small for recognition and every single woman nominated is a shining example of the talent permeating throughout the industry.  With nominations open for this...

APIContext has released its UK Open Banking API Performance 2023-2024 Report, the annual analysis of the performance of the open banking APIs exposed by the large CMA9 UK banks (the nine largest banks required by UK law to provide open banking services), traditional High Street banks, credit card providers, building societies, and new digital banks (neobanks). API performance is crucial for open banking as it ensures fast, reliable, and secure data exchanges between banks and third-party...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) recently executed a landmark operation in Lagos, Nigeria, arresting 792 suspects for their alleged involvement in a cryptocurrency investment fraud and romance scam. The raid, conducted at an imposing seven-storey building in Victoria Island, sheds light on the systematic infrastructure and advanced methods employed by these fraud networks to target victims worldwide. How the Operation Unfolded According to the EFCC, the surprise raid on December 10, 2024, was...

As we step into 2025, the API landscape is undergoing a transformative shift, redefining how businesses innovate and scale. APIs are no longer just enablers of connectivity; they are the architects of ecosystems, powering everything from seamless automation to AI-driven services. The new year will prove to be a pivotal year for the API ecosystem that will shape the space, highlighting trends, challenges, and opportunities that lie ahead and the following are realistic predictions I...

ChatGPT has just celebrated its second birthday (30th November)! Parallel to its steep rise to notoriety, ChatGPT is revolutionising the way we interact with technology. Known for generating human-quality text and information (worryingly?), it has become a useful and versatile tool for many. From writing emails and essays to translating languages and providing summaries, ChatGPT can assist users with a wide range of needs, often making it a good accessibility tool.   Its ability to...

Saviynt, a leading provider of cloud-native identity and governance platform solutions, has announced the launch of its highly anticipated Intelligence Suite, which includes the general availability of Intelligent Recommendations. This new offering promises to revolutionize identity security with its advanced features, including dynamic role management, tailored access recommendations, actionable insights, and a multi-dimensional weighted trust scoring model. Jeff Margolies, Saviynt's Chief Product and Strategy Officer, emphasized the transformative impact of Saviynt Intelligence. "Saviynt Intelligence will...

“My Government is committed to making work pay and will legislate to introduce a new deal for working people to ban exploitative practices and enhance employment rights. It will seek to establish the appropriate legislation to place requirements on those working to develop the most powerful artificial intelligence models." That's what the King said yesterday when he delivered his State Opening of Parliament address to the new government. What does this mean for the cybersecurity...

With July being Ransomware awareness month, KnowBe4 has released a ransomware resource toolkit at no cost for organisations and IT managers as part of a dedicated, month-long campaign in July to increase awareness about ransomware attacks. Ransomware is a malicious cyberattack where cybercriminals encrypt an organisation's data and demand a ransom payment to regain access. It has evolved to include extracting and threatening to expose sensitive information, combining the extortion tactics. This represents one of...

Advancements in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) have lowered the barrier of entry for non-security users to independently develop and manage their own data products, which when decentralised to enable separate cross domain data analysis is known as ‘data mesh’.  As enterprises are typically built on both structured and unstructured data, if the models these users add unstructured data to aren't trained and governed properly, the users risk compromising desired outcomes and the...

New research into password usage for new accounts during the onboarding process, has revealed a worrying trend where easily guessable passwords are left unchanged for new starters, presenting significant security risks for organisations. The findings from Secops Software, an Outpost24 company, analysed 651 million compromised passwords which highlighted a list of 120,000 commonly used password for new team members. At the top of the list was the term "User", appearing 41,683 times. "Temp" was second...