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Cyber is no longer a supporting capability. It now shapes how defence organisations plan, assess and act. Across NATO and allied forces, cyber intelligence is increasingly embedded into operational planning, from situational awareness through to targeting and strategic decision-making. At the same time, the threat landscape is becoming more complex. State-aligned actors are more active, campaigns are more coordinated, and the line between cyber and conventional operations continues to blur. Cyber operations in Ukraine have...

Phillip Wylie is an internationally recognised cybersecurity expert, ethical hacker and offensive security specialist with more than 28 years’ experience across IT, network security, application security, penetration testing, red teaming and social engineering.  As co-author of The Pentester BluePrint, founder of The Pwn School Project and host of The Phillip Wylie Show, Phillip has built his career around making complex security risks easier to understand without stripping away the technical reality. His work focuses on the gaps organisations...

Economic pressures are pushing cybersecurity down the priority list for many SMBs according to The CyberSmart MSP Survey 2026. Notably,  46% of MSP customers are more concerned about operational challenges such as rising costs and inflation than cybersecurity risks, despite increasing threats. Meanwhile, MSPs themselves identified AI-driven threats as their top security concern for the second consecutive year. The 2026 research, conducted by OnePoll, features insights from 350 MSP leaders across the UK and Ireland,...

New research from Keeper Security reveals that 89% of IT leaders struggle to manage the growing identity footprint amid AI expansion. The Identity Security at Machine Speed Report features insight from 200 cybersecurity decision-makers and senior IT leaders across Europe, the United States, Asia-Pacific and the Middle East. The study examines the challenges cybersecurity decision-makers face as identity ecosystems expand to include humans and a growing number of Non-Human Identities (NHIs), and finds that legacy...

Global cybersecurity company Huntress has announced a major expansion of its global channel ecosystem, adding four new distribution partners to accelerate growth across the mid-market, public sector, and EMEA regions. The new partnerships with Ingram Micro, Vertosoft, Liquid PC, and QBS Software are designed to broaden access to enterprise-grade cybersecurity tools for organizations increasingly targeted by cybercrime. The announcement comes as cyberattacks continue to rise globally, with mid-sized businesses, schools, healthcare providers, and local governments...

Forescout has unveiled an ambitious new global partner initiative, Mission:Possible, marking the largest channel-focused campaign in the company’s 25-year history. Designed to energize partners and accelerate pipeline growth, the tour will span more than 90 cities worldwide between May and September 2026. A Global Push to Strengthen the Channel The Mission:Possible tour underscores Forescout’s commitment to its partner ecosystem at a time when organizations are grappling with increasingly complex cybersecurity challenges. The initiative will bring...

Cybersecurity firm Forescout has identified 22 previously unknown vulnerabilities in serial-to-IP converters, devices commonly used to connect legacy industrial equipment to modern networks. The company warns that thousands of these systems are currently exposed online, potentially increasing the risk of cyberattacks across critical infrastructure sectors. The findings are part of a new research initiative called BRIDGE:BREAK, which focuses on hardware produced by Lantronix and Silex. These devices are widely deployed in industries such as utilities,...

A cybersecurity training programme designed to widen access to the profession for women and non-technical entrants is expanding without EU funding, after being voluntarily adopted by organisations in Poland and North Macedonia following the formal close of its Erasmus+ project period. SHE@CYBER, which was shaped and co-developed by ISACA, ended its funded phase in November 2025. Since then, more than 70 women in Poland have completed the training independently, and more than 40 educators in...

Sarah Armstrong-Smith brings rare front-line authority to the cyber resilience conversation, with a career shaped by some of the most defining digital threats of the modern era. From the Millennium Bug through to board-level cyber strategy at Microsoft and the London Stock Exchange Group, her perspective is grounded in real crisis leadership, not theory. That depth is exactly why she is such a sought-after cybersecurity speaker. As former Chief Security Advisor for Microsoft EMEA, a...

This week, UK government leaders and cyber officials are sounding an increasingly urgent alarm over the security risks posed by artificial intelligence, warning that the technology is both amplifying existing cyber threats and reshaping the balance between attackers and defenders. In a joint open letter to business leaders, ministers and the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) heed caution on a "new generation of AI models are becoming capable of doing work that previously required rare...