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KnowBe4, the human risk management platform, has released a new report entitled IT and Cybersecurity Trends in UK Retail: 2025 Survey Insights. The findings revealed nearly all (99.6%) of the 250 UK retail IT security professionals surveyed are facing a significant increase in cyber threats. Notably, 58% cited an increase in helpdesk/IT support scams that exploit frontline workers. To combat this, retailers in the UK are responding with greater investment, board-level engagement and a growing...

Hack The Box (HTB), a provider of gamified cybersecurity skills development, has announced the acquisition of LetsDefend, a pioneering blue team training platform known for its hands-on SOC simulations and growing community members. The company said the combination of the two companies "will offer hands-on labs, real-world simulations and cross-role skill development to empower enterprises, governments, MSSPs and academic institutions to continuously benchmark, upskill and certify their cyber workforce." It also said that this unified...

Check Point has once again been recognised as one of the World’s Best Companies of 2025 by TIME and Statista. This marks the second consecutive year that Check Point has been featured on the list, reflecting its strong employee satisfaction, consistent revenue growth, and commitment to transparency in sustainability. “Being recognised on TIME and Statista’s list of the World’s Best Companies of 2025 is an incredible honour,” said Sigal Gillmore, Chief Human Resources Officer, at...

Vanta, the trust management platform, has announced a new set of capabilities that embed AI across core compliance and risk workflows. The expanded capabilities unify policy management with Vanta AI Agent, continuous monitoring for vendors, risk oversight, and deeper integrations, providing security leaders with a single system of record to act on risk before it escalates. Risk management is typically fragmented across siloed tools, teams, and manual processes, the company said in a press release....

If you're an IT or Security leader, you know the struggle. Your technology stack looks like a jigsaw puzzle with missing pieces. Manual processes eat up your team's valuable time. Budget pressures keep mounting while security threats lurk in the shadows of your SaaS ecosystem. Sound familiar? You're not alone. Modern IT departments are drowning in complexity, managing an average of 254 SaaS applications while trying to maintain security, control costs, and keep employees productive....

Check Point Software has been recognized as a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Hybrid Mesh Firewalls, with the research firm citing the company’s execution and completeness of vision. The recognition highlights Check Point’s approach to hybrid mesh network security, designed to deliver high-performance firewall protection across on-premises, cloud, and SASE environments. According to the company, this enables organisations to stay ahead of evolving cyber threats while consolidating security management across distributed networks....

KnowBe4, the security training provider, today released a new report entitled Navigating Cyber Threats: Infosecurity Europe 2025 Findings. The findings show that cybersecurity professionals are sounding the alarm; not about increasingly sophisticated cyber threats, but about something far more human –  distraction. The new research from KnowBe4, surveyed more than 100 security professionals during the Infosecurity Europe 2025 conference to gauge the current state of cybersecurity concerns. The main findings of the report include: Distraction...

In this week's KnowBe4 scam alert, you receive an unexpected text message that looks like it’s from Amazon. The message claims that an item you bought failed a “routine quality inspection” or has been recalled. The text offers you a full refund, and you don’t even need to return the item. You only have to tap a link in the text message to get your money back. However, the refund offer is a trick, and...

Application security (AppSec) is often a story of unfinished business. Vulnerabilities are discovered, triaged, and sometimes deprioritised, only to resurface later in more dangerous forms. For security teams managing thousands of findings, this creates what is often referred to as security debt, the accumulation of unresolved issues that can quietly morph into active threats. Arnica, a company positioning itself at the intersection of developer-native security and automation, is taking aim at this long-standing challenge. Recently,...

It’s no secret that ransomware is on the rise, as this escalation is echoed across numerous industry reports. The Verizon 2025 Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR), for instance, starkly illustrates this reality, revealing that ransomware (with or without encryption) was present in 44% of all breaches reviewed. This marks a substantial 37% increase from their previous annual report. These findings support KnowBe4’s own Threat Lab data that highlights a 57.7% increase in ransomware payloads present...