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New research from CyberSmart has revealed that, despite a compliance deadline that has now passed, only 16% of businesses required to comply with the EU’s Network and Information Security Directive 2 (NIS2) are confident that they are fully compliant. Worryingly, 11% of respondents were unsure what NIS2 is, despite falling within its scope. The CyberSmart NIS2 Survey, reveals insights from 670 business leaders across the UK, Poland, the Netherlands, Ireland, France, Germany, Denmark and Belgium....

After a successful Year 9 Demo Day, Cyber Security Academic Startup Accelerator Programme (CyberASAP) is gaining momentum towards its 10th anniversary kick off, which is due to start later this month. This comes as the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) has committed a further £10m over the next four years in additional funding to CyberASAP. Delivered by Innovate UK, the programme has bridged the gap between academia and industry, accelerating the commercialisation of cutting-edge cyber...

The world is adapting to the concept of agentic AI: agents that can operate in your network with human instruction and direction, and cut the time needed to do menial tasks. Within the SOC, a number of new tools and platforms are now vying for attention with a range of offerings for different sized users. We looked at five common criteria of the current offerings to determine the primary AI SOC analyst platform providers: Autonomy...

For decades, cybersecurity strategy has been built around three familiar pillars: endpoint security, network security, and cloud security. These domains have shaped how security teams are organised, where budgets are allocated, and how risks are understood across the enterprise. Each pillar emerged in response to a major shift in computing. The rise of personal devices led to endpoint security. Expanding connectivity created the need for network defence. The migration of infrastructure and applications into SaaS...

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....

Cybersecurity threats continue to escalate in scale, speed and sophistication, placing growing pressure on organisations to move beyond reactive defences and rethink how risk is governed at leadership level. As digital systems underpin everything from national infrastructure to day-to-day business operations, failures in governance, communication and accountability are increasingly being exposed as critical vulnerabilities. At the centre of this challenge is Purvi Kay, a senior cyber security leader with experience operating in some of the...

Cyber Innovations is a UK-based cyber company specialising in human-centred cyber resilience. Cyber Innovations have developed research-backed training, tools and frameworks designed to help organisations respond more effectively to cyber incidents, while reducing cognitive overload, limiting human error and minimising longer-term impacts on staff wellbeing. Cyber Innovation’s early work, particularly the development of CyGamBIT, was supported by CyberASAP, a research commercialisation programme that’s funded by the UK Government’s Department for Science, Innovation and Technology and...

If you had asked me in 2024 how seriously firms were taking DORA, my honest answer would have been that only around the top 20 per cent of impacted organisations were truly focused on it. These were typically the more risk averse, forward thinking businesses that tend to move early on regulatory change. Even then, many struggled to embed DORA into compliance as usual activities, whether because of stretched resources, limited budgets or complications within...

Ahead of Valentine's Day, cybersecurity experts are warning consumers to be cautious online, whether they're looking for love or trying to grab a last minute gift. Why do scams increase around Valentine's Day? Anne Cutler, Cybersecurity Expert at Keeper Security, notes: "Valentine’s Day is one of the easiest moments of the year for romance scams to succeed, largely because people are more open to connection. When emotions run high, caution often slips quietly into the...

Veribee is on a mission to reduce noise for software teams, by striving to minimise alert-heavy tools that create noise, as opposed to confidence in what’s actually secure. As one survey found, over two-thirds of security teams receive over 2,000 alerts a day (roughly one alert every 42 seconds), with 92% reporting missed or uninvestigated alerts were linked to actual security incidents. Evidently, noise reduction, at a time where noise is only increasing, cannot be...