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IBM today announced a new cloud-based community platform for cyber security applications. IBM Security Connect is the first security cloud platform built on open federated technologies, with AI at its core, to analyse security data across previously unconnected tools and environments. An IBM analysis of clients’ environments found that on average, cybersecurity teams are using over 80 different security products from 40 different vendors. Our research also indicates less than 20 percent of the features...

Darktrace and Endace today announced a partnership that combines Darktrace’s cyber AI with Endace’s unparalleled forensic capabilities. This combined solution empowers organisations to discover in-progress attacks anywhere on the digital infrastructure with Darktrace’s AI, and investigate them with industry-leading speed, scale and accuracy using Endace’s packet-level network history. The EndaceProbe Analytics Platform arms organisations with the ability to record network traffic and conduct in-depth investigations by rapidly searching across petabytes of data for packets of...

Multi-factor authentication provider, Swivel Secure, has been awarded the Identity and Access Management Solution of the Year award at this year’s Computing Security Awards. These awards recognise and honour the best security designers, providers, products and solutions within the rapidly growing information security industry. This year’s ceremony took place at the Radisson Blu Edwardian in London, on Thursday 11th October where thirty awards were presented, with each category recognising the success from across the industry...

Furthering its commitment to strengthen the telecommunications ecosystem in India, Optiemus Infracom Limited (OIL), has partnered with Swiss company EQUIIS Technologies, to offer a secure communication solution to its enterprise clients. EQUIIS Enterprise Platform is an end-to-end encrypted communications solution that gives organisations centralised control, while ensuring total privacy for voice calls, texts and file or data transfer. This partnership will further strengthen Optiemus’s mission to deliver secure, cutting edge technology for its consumers. It...

Avecto, a Bomgar company, and global leader in endpoint privilege management, has today issued the findings of a new survey on how prepared global IT and cybersecurity professionals are for the Windows 7 end of life. The survey of over 500 individuals from Europe, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and the United States (U.S.) revealed that, while some organisations have already migrated to Windows 10 and are using the move as a catalyst to improve...

Europe’s next generation of cyber security experts will congregate for the European Cyber Security Challenge, a two-day battle to find the continent’s ultimate cyber champions. Coached by Fujitsu and BAE Systems, team UK is comprised of 10 cyber security novices aged 18-25 who have endured an exciting and rigorous process to qualify for today’s competition. The talented individuals who have been selected to represent the UK are studying and working in the field and agree...

Garrison, the specialist provider of ultra-secure web browsing technology, today announced it has raised $30m in additional funds from London-based investors. The company’s unique technology enables users to access all content on the web without any risk of exposing their organisation to cyber-attack. Instead of relying on a traditional threat detection-based model, it uses a revolutionary technique to place a gap at the most fundamental electronic level between the internet and the end-user’s device. This...

Atos, a global leader in digital transformation, together with Google Cloud, today welcomed Minister for Digital and the Creative Industries, Rt Hon Margot James MP to launch Atos' first artificial intelligence (AI) lab under the Atos and Google Cloud’s global partnership. The Atos AI lab in London will bring together expertise in AI alongside private and public sector organisational capabilities to collaborate and unlock cross-enterprise opportunities. The new lab will be available to businesses and...

CrowdStrike® Inc., the leader in cloud-delivered endpoint protection, today announced it is positioned as a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: U.S. Incident Readiness, Response, and Resiliency Services: Beyond the Big 5 Consultancies 2018 Vendor Assessment (doc #US44257117, September 2018). According to the IDC MarketScape assessment, CrowdStrike leverages its intelligence-led incident response (IR) approach and understanding of adversary tactics and techniques to identify security gaps within its client organisations and to advise executives on the development...

BJSS, the UK’s largest privately-owned IT and business consultancy, today announces that it has appointed Stuart Bullock as Managing Director. Bullock, who joined the company in 2000, is moving up from his role as Director in charge of Delivery Centres in Leeds, Manchester and Bristol, and will now be responsible for running all aspects of BJSS’ business. The appointment comes as BJSS continues its ongoing growth and follows the company’s recent win of the Queen’s...