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The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has unveiled plans for Cyber Shield, an ambitious initiative that aims to use agentic artificial intelligence to transform the nation's cyber defenses and counter increasingly sophisticated cyber threats. The proposal forms part of a broader effort by the NCSC and the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) to build a national scale, AI powered cyber defense capability that can detect, analyze, and eventually respond to attacks at machine...

KnowBe4's latest benchmarking report, based on 42 million phishing simulations worldwide, reveals the sectors most vulnerable to phishing attacks across the UK and Ireland, while highlighting the impact of continuous security awareness training. Healthcare and pharmaceutical organisations are the most susceptible to phishing attacks in the UK, followed by businesses in the hospitality and construction sectors, according to new research from cybersecurity awareness and digital workforce security provider KnowBe4. The findings come from KnowBe4's 2026...

Check Point Software has revealed that its ThreatCloud AI platform prevented 4.6 billion cyberattacks over the past year, as the security vendor published its fourth annual Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) report, titled “Securing the Path Toward a Responsible Future.” The report sets out how the NASDAQ-listed firm is positioning itself at the intersection of artificial intelligence and cyber security, an area it says will define the next decade of digital risk. Alongside the attack-prevention...

Registration is now open for International Cyber Expo 2026, one of the UK's flagship two-day cybersecurity events which set to return to Olympia London on 29–30 September 2026, bringing together thousands of security professionals, technology providers and policymakers to explore the latest developments shaping the cyber landscape. With cyber threats at a peak and the convergence of physical and digital security becomes increasingly important, International Cyber Expo has established itself as a key meeting place...

Forescout Technologies Inc. has been added to the NATO Information Assurance Product Catalogue (NIAPC), marking formal recognition that the company's cybersecurity platform meets NATO's information assurance requirements for deployment across mission-critical defence environments. Maintained by the NATO Communications and Information Agency (NCIA), the NIAPC serves as a trusted catalogue of cybersecurity technologies that have been validated for use by NATO military and civilian organisations. Inclusion demonstrates that Forescout's platform satisfies the alliance's stringent standards for...

Huntress has struck a new distribution partnership with UK channel marketplace Giacom, giving the managed service providers (MSPs) on Giacom's Cloud Market platform direct access to Huntress' Agentic Security Platform and its 24/7 AI-centric Security Operations Centre (SOC).  The deal is one of two announced this week, alongside a parallel agreement with MSP Nordics covering Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden, as Huntress looks to broaden its footprint across EMEA. Both moves are aimed at removing friction for MSPs that want to add enterprise-grade...

Check Point Software has announced that its Cloud Firewall offering is now available on the AWS European Sovereign Cloud, as the cybersecurity giant becomes an official partner for Amazon's new independent European cloud infrastructure. The move is designed to help European organisations meet increasingly stringent data residency and operational autonomy requirements under EU regulatory frameworks, without sacrificing the performance and security capabilities they rely on from AWS. The AWS European Sovereign Cloud is a fully...

Cybersecurity vendor Huntress has announced the general availability of Managed Identity Security Posture Management (ISPM), extending its Agentic Security Platform from threat detection into continuous, expert-managed remediation of identity weaknesses across Microsoft 365 environments. The launch is underpinned by figures the company says highlight how central identity has become to modern attack chains. According to Huntress, identity-based attacks accounted for 79% of all critical and high-severity incidents its team responded to over the past year,...

Swiss privacy company Proton has launched Lumo 2.0, a major upgrade to its zero-access encrypted AI assistant, as concerns mount over the security risks posed by mainstream AI tools in the enterprise. Unlike most AI assistants, which log user conversations and may use them to train future models, Lumo is built so that not even Proton can read what users type into it. The company argues this addresses a growing blind spot in enterprise security:...

If you’re around my age, then you know the joy of using an old paper map. Not real joy, obviously. More the sort of joy normally associated with trying to keep track of 3 pages, getting told off for not holding it the right way up, or for giving instructions too late, and discovering that the road you were confidently following was replaced by a retail park sometime during the Blair years. A paper map...