Insight

Today, the UK’s Online Safety Act enters a new phase of enforcement and media attention is riveted on the adult content industry. Age assurance is not only required, but now actively policed, with Ofcom empowered to block access and impose fines up to £18M or 10% of global revenue. This change is not gradual. The industry has mobilised with urgency, with 1,300 UK adult websites having deployed some form of robust age verification. Of course, the...

The 2023 collapse of the 158-year old UK logistics company KNP resulted in the loss of 700 jobs. The devastating cyber attack that shuttered the company has returned to the spotlight this week with a BBC Panorama documentary examining the real-world consequences of ransomware and the rapidly evolving scale of cybercrime in the UK. The programme paints a stark picture, one that is echoed in supporting commentary from both the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre...

The UK's public sector is under siege. Not by visible enemies, but by a wave of cyber threats. In 2024, the National Cyber Security Centre reported a 16% increase in serious attacks impacting national security. These aren't theoretical risks. They are real, growing, and increasingly sophisticated ranging from ransomware attacks shutting down local councils to state-sponsored attacks probing NHS infrastructure. This rise in hostile activity has prompted urgent legislative attention. The UK government’s forthcoming Cyber...

Ensuring that any organisation can withstand, respond effectively to and recover quickly from ICT disruptions is a strategic imperative. This is particularly true within the financial sector. The Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA), which became mandatory on 17 January this year, was put in place to serve as a robust standard for resilience. It doesn’t just need organisations in scope to implement sophisticated technological defences, it needs them to have a proactive, well-informed workforce that...

Employees are expected to behave securely, and the definition of “securely” is often written down in a myriad of security policies. Yet, people do not always comply with security policies or make use of available tools. Gartner documents in their research that 69% of all employees intentionally bypass cybersecurity guidance, and 93% behave consciously and deliberately insecurely when they have to.   Is Non-Compliance a Question of Motivation? The alleged answer to this challenge is...

Companies want results fast, and low/no-code (LCNC) and Vibe Coding platforms promise just that: rapid application development with either no coding or AI-generated coding.   LCNC and Large Language Model (LLM) Vendors quickly release products to get ahead in the AI race. Organizations procure these products to implement right away aiming for quick returns on investment (ROI). But in the race to deploy these tools, security often gets left behind.  This can cause expensive problems like...

In today’s digital workplaces, more employees are building their own applications by generating code using Low Code No Code (LCNC), Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Large Language Model (LLM) tools instead of manually writing lines of code. These employees are called vibe coders. Vibe Coders prompt LCNC and AI tools using natural language prompts to generate code based on their unique requirements. The first part of our two-part blog series, “The Hidden Dangers of Low/No-Code and...

Organised by Eskenzi PR in media partnership with the IT Security Guru, the Most Inspiring Women in Cyber Awards aim to shed light on the remarkable women in our industry. The following is a feature on one of 2024’s Top 20 women selected by an esteemed panel of judges. Presented in a Q&A format, the nominee’s answers are written in their own words. In 2025, the awards were sponsored by BT, KnowBe4, Mimecast, Varonis, Bridewell, Certes, Pentest Tools and AI Dionic. Community partners included WiCyS UK & Ireland...

Organised by Eskenzi PR in media partnership with the IT Security Guru, the Most Inspiring Women in Cyber Awards aim to shed light on the remarkable women in our industry. The following is a feature on one of 2024’s Top 20 women selected by an esteemed panel of judges. Presented in a Q&A format, the nominee’s answers are written in their own words. In 2025, the awards were sponsored by BT, KnowBe4, Mimecast, Varonis, Bridewell, Certes, Pentest Tools and AI Dionic. Community partners included WiCyS UK & Ireland...

Organised by Eskenzi PR in media partnership with the IT Security Guru, the Most Inspiring Women in Cyber Awards aim to shed light on the remarkable women in our industry. The following is a feature on one of 2024’s Top 20 women selected by an esteemed panel of judges. Presented in a Q&A format, the nominee’s answers are written in their own words. In 2025, the awards were sponsored by BT, KnowBe4, Mimecast, Varonis, Bridewell, Certes, Pentest Tools and AI Dionic. Community partners included WiCyS UK & Ireland...