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Seven top tips on how to prevent and cope with an insider threat By Tom Huckle, Lead Cyber Security Consultant, Crucial Academy An inside job brings up images of bank raids and heists but in the modern world companies should be thinking just as seriously about the cyber threat coming from within their own business. The possibility that a breach or a cyber attack could be down to an employee or former employee is growing...

By Jake Olcott, VP of Strategic Partnerships at BitSight After years of debate over whether to impose new cybersecurity regulations on companies, General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) laws went into effect in May 2018. Already we’ve seen several data breach victims ordered to pay fines under the new rules and cookie disclosure notices are popping up on more websites than ever. Everyone is waiting with bated breath for the first report from the Information Commissioner’s...

Netwrix Corporation, provider of a visibility platform for data security and risk mitigation in hybrid environments, announced today the acquisition of Concept Searching, a global leader in semantic metadata generation, auto-classification and taxonomy management software. After a year of successful technology partnership, Netwrix acquired Concept Searching to enhance customers’ contextual awareness into sensitive structured and unstructured data, both on premises and in the cloud. This investment firmly positions Netwrix in the data-centric audit and protection...

Multi-factor authentication provider, Swivel Secure, has announced the launch of its new AuthControl Mobile application, Version 5. The new update further enhances security and increased deployment agility for its users. The application has been totally rewritten to provide its users with a better performing core functionality in a even more secure system. The new version of AuthControl Mobile V5 supports several languages according to the configuration of the device, enhancing the user experience and comfort...

Ping Identity, the leader in Identity Defined Security, today announced the public preview of PingOne for Customers. The cloud-based Identity as a Service (IDaaS) offering is built for the developer community, and provides API-based identity services for customer-facing applications. It can help large enterprises launch apps faster, replace custom identity services that are difficult to maintain, and facilitate the transition from on-premises deployments to cloud-hosted services. By making it easy to securely authenticate end users,...

Barracuda Networks, Inc., the leader in cloud-enabled security and data protection solutions, today announced that it has been selected by Leeds United Football Club to help protect it from today’s advanced cyber threats. Working with Leeds-based IT reseller and club sponsor Altinet, Barracuda is providing Leeds United with its Message Archiver in order to make the storage and access of emails simpler, quicker and more secure. As well as being easy to set up and...

Kevin Brown appointed Managing Director of BT Security BT today announced the appointment of Kevin Brown as Managing Director of BT Security, where he will be responsible for the company’s physical and cyber security activity around the world. Kevin succeeds Mark Hughes, who is stepping down at the end of this year to take up a new position outside of BT. BT is one of the world’s biggest providers of cyber security services, with 3,000...

Janrain®, the company that pioneered the Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) category, today announced it will co-present with international energy and gas company Shell at the Gartner Identity & Access Management (IAM) Summit being held December 3-5 in Las Vegas. With increasingly volatile prices, negative public perceptions, stringent regulations and disruptive geopolitics to contend with, oil & gas companies must find new ways to innovate in 2019. Shell GM Digital Technologies / VP Innovation...

Altia-ABM has appointed Mick Creedon QPM, one of the UK’s most respected police officers, as a strategic policing adviser to assist with the expansion of services to UK and international enforcement agencies and police forces. Mr Creedon is a former Chief Constable of Derbyshire and was the National Policing Lead for serious and organised crime, financial investigation and asset recovery for over ten years. A career detective and one of the longest serving Chief Constables...

Miele, the domestic appliance manufacturer, now deploys solutions from F5 in two areas: as a reverse proxy, and web application firewall, which provides additional protection of web applications. They offer flexible options for integration into existing systems, current features, and system management from a single source. Miele continually expands its e-business platform for consumers, where business partners (suppliers, dealers, agencies, and service partners) are integrated into the processes with increasing depth. Accordingly, the number of...