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The rise of Community-Powered Threat Hunting

Next-Gen SIEM provider, Securonix has announced availability of its SearchMore functionality that helps operations teams better detect and respond to threats that bypass preventative and detection controls. The company states that "SearchMore delivers the industry’s first Community-Powered Threat Hunting capability and provides the ability to search on real-time, streaming data, as well as long-term data." CEO Sachin Nayyar elaborated: “This is a huge step in cybersecurity monitoring. With a combination of cloud-native and big data...

Global Knowledge is named official training provider to grow cybersecurity skills by (ISC)2

by Sabina

July 29, 2020

(ISC)² has announced today that it will add Global Knowledge to its portfolio of Official Training Providers for the UK, thus expanding the range of leading training organisations offering (ISC)2 certification preparation training. Global Knowledge will be providing exam preparation training for the full range of (ISC)2 certifications to its UK customer base, delivering pathways to new sectors and audiences, increasing the size of the UK channel presence for (ISC)2 and responding to increased demand and...

Entersekt urges financial institutions not to underestimate the time it will take to meet PSD2 deadline

by Nicole

July 22, 2020

Entersekt, a global specialist in digital security solutions, is urging banks and other financial institutions not to underestimate the time it will take to meet strong customer authentication (SCA) compliance mandates set by the second Payment Services Directive (PSD2) in Europe. The company has made its SCA checklist and whitepaper “Turning a compliance challenge into business success” available to help financial institutions (FIs) as they prepare to meet the full SCA requirements. Though the legislation...

CyberSmart raises £5.5million to fund growth following increased demand for cybersecurity

by Nicole

July 14, 2020

CyberSmart has raised £5.5 million in a heavily oversubscribed Series A funding round led by VC firm IQ Capital and respected cyber security and tech entrepreneur investors. The funding will be used to fund the growth of the company, which enables small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) to combat the constant threat of cyber-attacks and increasing regulation in an ever-evolving technological landscape and increasingly connected digital operating space. CyberSmart has seen a massive increase in demand...

BLOCKAPT’s Success With The London Office For Rapid Cybersecurity Advancement

by Sabina

July 9, 2020

BlockAPT announces a major accomplishment in being successful with the London Office for Rapid Cybersecurity Advancement (LORCA) accelerator programme, which is backed by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport. LORCA helps scale early-stage cyber companies in the UK and internationally. Reinforcing BlockAPT’s mission to proactively safeguard organisation’s digital assets against persistent cyber threats today and tomorrow, LORCA chose BlockAPT as a result of our unique security centralised management platform, the team’s commitment and...

Untrained and Malicious Users Biggest Cause for Concern Among UK IT Professionals

by Beth Smith

June 29, 2020

Untrained and Malicious Users Biggest Cause for Concern Among UK IT Professionals

Following on the success of last year’s global report, KnowBe4 has today released the findings of ‘The 2020 What Keeps You Up at Night Report”. This year, KnowBe4 delves into the issues that specifically trouble UK-based organisations and IT experts, including attack types, security initiatives as well as organisational constraints. An in-depth analysis examined just how prepared these organisations are in managing such cyber threats, risks and concerns. The report compiled information gathered from...

Corelight Moves Toward Open NDR Platform with Powerful Suricata IDS/IPS Integration and Enhancements to Encrypted Traffic Collection

by Sabina

June 18, 2020

Corelight, provider of the most powerful network traffic analysis (NTA) solutions for cybersecurity, today announced its first major steps toward offering an open network detection and response (NDR) platform that will bring a proven open-source design pattern into one unified product for customers. Corelight has integrated two powerful open-source projects, Zeek and Suricata, into a seamless solution that enables rapid pivoting from Suricata alerts into the rich network metadata extracted by Zeek. Suricata is an...

Qualys Adds Malware Detection to Its Free 60-day Remote Endpoint Protection Offer

by Sabina

June 10, 2020

FOSTER CITY, Calif. June 9, 2020 - Qualys, Inc. (NASDAQ: QLYS), a pioneer and leading provider of cloud-based IT, security and compliance solutions, today announced it has added malware detection to its cloud-based Remote Endpoint Protection offer, which is free for 60 days. Any customers currently using the offer on a free 60-day license can extend it for an additional 30 days. “ATN International needed a way to protect both its on and off-premises endpoints as one of...

CyberSecurity offers easy way to make companies secure and compliant in 60 seconds

by SophieDowdell

June 8, 2020

CyberSmart, a cybersecurity company providing automated compliance, today announced a new value proposition and pricing structure based on company size to ensure that every business in the UK, regardless of size and technical ability, can afford to be secure. CyberSmart enables companies to be compliant with the UK Governments’ Cyber Essentials, Cyber Essentials Plus and GDPR Readiness Standards. All existing customers will also be given access to the advanced security monitoring application and dashboard, previously...

UK Fears Cybercriminals Will Use NHSX COVID-19 Tracing App to Launch Cyber Attacks

by Sabina

May 27, 2020

Nearly half (48%) of the UK public surveyed about the NHSX COVID-19 tracing app do not trust the UK government to keep their information safe from hackers. This is according to a study carried out by Censuswide on behalf of Anomali, a leader in intelligence-driven cybersecurity solutions. The nation-wide survey, released today, examined consumer attitudes to the proposed tracing app, particularly their confidence and wider trust in the government to appropriately and justly handle the data collected for the scheme. Other major findings from the report include: Around 43% of respondents were...

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