Opinions & Analysis

Terrorist Related-Groups Will Attack Population Centers With Crimeware As A Service: While terrorist-related groups have been tormenting organizations and individuals for years, we anticipate more potentially destructive attacks in 2019. Instead of breaking systems with ransomware, adversaries will leverage new tools to conduct harmful assaults on targeted subjects and organizations. From attacks on data integrity that essentially kill computers to the point of mandatory hardware replacements, to leveraging new technology for physical assaults such as...

The Cybersecurity M&A Market Report from international technology mergers and acquisitions advisors, Hampleton Partners, outlines how high profile hacks, the global digitisation of business and new regulations are driving record transaction volumes and valuations, with 141 completed transactions by October this year, surpassing 2016 and 2017 levels. 2018 has seen nine big ticket deals in excess of $500m from buyers such as Thoma Bravo, Cisco, RELX, AT&T and Francisco Partners, which have generated attention to...

By Ronald Sens, EMEA Director for A10 Networks As viruses become more sophisticated, malware must be detected all the way down to its DNA. The winter season is peak time for infection and disease across the UK. But the old saying “prevention is better than cure“ is not only relevant to our personal health, but also to our networks and IT systems. In corporate networks, the classic defence against malware and other external attacks is...

Has a sensitive political and business environment in 2018 deflected attention away from security and left UK businesses less prepared for cyberattack? New research* has revealed that UK businesses are looking for greater support from the Government in the ever-growing battle against cybercrime. According to the latest insights from RedSeal, nearly seven in ten (68%) IT bosses say their business has suffered at least one cyberattack in the past year. Almost a third (31%) also...

1. In SaaS, nobody knows you were hacked, leading enterprises to seek better visibility solutions. The model of enterprise software deployed on-premise will gradually disappear as it is replaced by SaaS. Many of the resources once in the hands of corporate, like the database, email server, ERP, CRM and others will all move to the cloud, leaving enterprises vulnerable. SaaS’s greatest advantage is also its greatest weakness. With SaaS, you need much less IT. This...

Mike Mimoso, Editorial Director, Flashpoint Attackers’ opportunism is never higher during the year than in the holiday shopping season. As a result, businesses must be aware of the potential for increases in malware attacks against point-of-sale (PoS) systems, the possibility of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against popular web-based services, and attempts to bypass fraud-detection systems, to name just a few seasonal risks. All of these are heightened by a month-long increase in online shopping and...

By Mike Mimoso, Flashpoint Modern chat services are finding their place alongside illicit forums in the cybercrime ecosystem as a place where buyers and sellers can finalise transactions or conduct real-time negotiations. The immediacy of a modern chat service—bolstered in some cases by encryption and other built-in security mechanisms—is an attractive lure for criminals leery of a law enforcement or researcher presence on forums. Cybercriminal adoption of modern chat services has been a gradual process...

By Sathish Balakrishnan There’s no shortage of data pointing to the growth of Linux container and cloud-native applications. According to a recent survey from the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), many of the Kubernetes deployments underpinning these workloads are taking place in public clouds. While Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform provides the industry’s most comprehensive enterprise Kubernetes platform for on-premise and hybrid cloud containerized workloads, we also enable organizations to consume OpenShift-as-a-service with Red Hat...

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...

Written by Jake Olcott, VP of Communications and Strategic Partnerships, BitSight In today’s evolving cyber risk landscape, Boards of Directors are becoming increasingly concerned about their company’s security performance. In fact, the NACD has found that 89% of public companies and 72% of private companies regularly discuss security at Board meetings. That’s because directors have become overwhelmingly aware not only that there has been a continual stream of data breaches in the last couple of...