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Exposure management has replaced old‑school “scan‑and‑patch” techniques.   Now, the money is in unified visibility, context, and mobilization; not siloed CVEs that don’t reflect the priorities of the business. Teams need to see attack paths, not single vulnerabilities. They need to understand what matters to the whole, not what has a higher score. And they need to know what to fix first.   This means unified visibility, context, and mobilization across all fronts: IT, cloud, identity, and OT environments....

Bridewell, a leading UK cyber security firm, today announces that it has been accredited by the Government’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) to provide CHECK penetration testing to government, public sector bodies and organisations under the UK’s critical national infrastructure (CNI). CHECK-authorised penetration tests on CNI systems and networks are conducted by verified companies using NCSC recognised methods and by staff who hold NCSC-approved qualifications. The current NCSC advice is for all HMG organisations to...

Registration for this year’s International Cyber Expo (ICE) on the 26th and 27th of September 2023 at London Olympia is now open. The award-winning security event will once again showcase an impressive line-up of talks, demonstrations, and senior-level roundtable discussions led by reputable experts in the field; not least, Chair of the event’s Advisory Council, Ciaran Martin CB, Professor at Oxford University. To register for FREE, visit: https://ice-2023.reg.buzz/eskenzi-press-release-launch Off the back of the inaugural event...

Apparently, the team at Ferrari may not have been up to speed with the latest ways to ensure your security is top priority. It was announced on Monday via a statement uploaded to their website that Ferrari was “recently contacted by a threat actor with a ransom demand related to certain client contact details”. Ferrari then went on to say that it “will not be held to ransom” and that the best course of action...

Identity management is reaching a tipping point. In 2022, we commissioned a survey of over 1,000 top IT security professionals for our 2022 Identity and Security Survey. This exploration into the state of the identity security market revealed that: More than 89% of respondents have been impacted by an identity-based attack within the last 12 months 96% utilize multiple tools for their identity management 70% believe they’re not even actively using all the tools they’re paying for These...

Armis, the asset visibility and security company, has divulged findings from the Armis State of Cyberwarfare and Trends Report: 2022-2023, which measured global IT and security professionals’ perceptions of cyberwarfare. It found that while 84% of UK organisations claimed they had programmes and practices in place to respond to cyberwarfare threat, only one-third (32%) said their plans are validated by best practice frameworks, which is less than the global average of nearly 40%. In addition,...

Picture the scene: The office of a small but successful law firm is broken into. During the ensuing break-in, hundreds of documents relating to both employees’ and clients’ personal data are stolen and presumed available for sale online, including compromising personal information and financial data. Following an investigation, it becomes apparent that the law firm did not employ basic security controls when attempting to protect their physical premises. No security system, no CCTV, and no...

By Dan Conrad, AD Security and Management Team Lead at One Identity Authentication is one of the hottest topics in cybersecurity right now. As biometrics, MFA, and a range of other authentication methods continue to threaten the password’s supremacy, we thought it was worth finding out what industry professionals thought about it all. So that’s what we did. At InfoSecurity Europe 2022, One Identity surveyed more than 100 security and IT professionals to get a...

By Dan Conrad, Security team lead at One Identity   It is not a secret that passwords are not a particularly secure method of protection, furthermore in a world where multifactor authentication is becoming the norm, talking about password hygiene seems a little dated but still, according to the Verizon 2021 Data Breach Investigations Report, credentials are the route to data breaches in 61% of incidents.      In an ideal world, and increasingly in reality, any...

Mobile banking is the safest way to bank for UK consumers, RiskOps platform for financial risk management Feedzai revealed in their Q2 2022 Financial Crime Report, based on the analysis of over 18 billion global banking transactions throughout 2021. According to the report, banking represented 88% of all banking transactions in the U.K. during this period; however, fraud rates were over 50% lower using a mobile device compared with desktop, laptop, telephone, or in-person transactions...