Security News

Effective incident response requires planning and the bringing together of multiple stakeholders who must work quickly and efficiently to deal with a security incident. With the fallout from high profile attacks like NonPetya and WannaCry suggesting that incident response planning is still falling short of where it should be, it will be one of the most hotly debated topics at this year’s Infosecurity Europe 2019, Europe’s number one information security event. A number of senior...

Australian web security expert Troy Hunt has been revealed as the latest industry luminary to be selected to join the Infosecurity Hall of Fame. He will be inducted into the Hall of Fame at Infosecurity Europe, Europe’s number one information security event. Troy’s inclusion in the Infosecurity Hall of Fame recognises his contribution to the advancement of information security, education and good practice as an industry advocate, through his security research, public education, blogging and...

Cyber security specialist, Arcturus, has become one of the youngest companies to be listed as a CHECK service provider by the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), achieving the accreditation in just over a year since its incorporation. As a CHECK-accredited company, Arcturus is now accredited to perform IT Health Checks (ITHC) and assess IT systems for the government and other public sector organisations that store and handle classified and sensitive data or connect to the...

Kaspersky Lab’s latest survey shows a visible gap between the preventative measures IT Decision Makers from European organisations say their organisation takes and the actual measures – while 83% agree they do take precautions to help prevent cyberattacks, only 41% provide security training to all employees and only 53% think their organisation has robust security policies in place. A vast majority of IT Decision Makers also express their interest in finding out who was behind...

Cybersecurity demands of small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) have become both a major risk and revenue opportunity to managed service providers (MSPs). This is according to research conducted by Vanson Bourne and commissioned by Continuum®, the proactive platform that integrates intelligent software with expert services for MSPs to scale dynamically and protect their clients. Underserved and Unprepared: The State of SMB Cyber Security in 2019 (see attached), released today, draws on data collected in 2019...

Armour Communications, the leading provider of specialist, secure communications solutions, is launching the latest version of its flagship product Armour Mobile at Cyber UK 2019 – the premier annual cyber security event run by the UK’s NCSC (National Cyber Security Centre). In addition, Armour will be demonstrating full integration with Secure Chorus standards, to a live audience, with Leonardo, BAE Applied Intelligence and dstl (Defence Science and Technology Laboratory). The interactive workshop, hosted by NCSC...

Cyber security company Foregenix has expanded its Threat Intelligence Group (TIG) in the Asia-Pacific region with the establishment of a new base in Melbourne, Australia. The move will enable the Wiltshire headquartered firm, which has offices in Europe, Africa, SE Asia and North and South America as well as an established base in Sydney, to offer TIG services globally and around the clock in a follow-the-sun fashion. The TIG provides real-time endpoint monitoring in support...

NETSCOUT SYSTEMS, INC., (NASDAQ: NTCT), a leading provider of service assurance, security, and business analytics, today released its 14th annual Worldwide Infrastructure Security Report (WISR), offering direct insights into a wide range of security and operational challenges facing service provider and enterprise network operators around the world, and the strategies adopted to address and mitigate them. In addition to the survey results, the WISR is supplemented with global threat intelligence from NETSCOUT’s Active Threat Level...

Small and medium sized enterprises are under pressure to protect themselves against cyber attacks to mitigate the risk of being excluded from supply chains. Joe Collinwood, CEO at CySure, takes a closer look at the implications of complacency in supply chain cyber security. In a rapidly evolving landscape of cyber threats, many organisations are focusing efforts on protecting the confidentiality, availability and integrity of their networks and systems. While this is important, small to medium...

An alarming cybersecurity skills shortage has been exposed with just one in five companies revealed to have sufficient in-house capability to protect critical assets from attack, a study has found. 96% of those hit by a data breach in the last year report that inadequate security testing was at least somewhat responsible for the issue. SMEs with between 100 and 250 employees are the most vulnerable, according to research from AVORD - a new security...