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Kroll, a division of Duff & Phelps, a global leader in risk mitigation, investigations, compliance, cyber resilience, security and incident response solutions, today announced a new cooperation agreement (the “Cooperation Agreement”) with Sweden-based Tempest Security AB (publ) providing cyber risk solutions to Tempest’s clients across Scandinavia and around the world. “Kroll is very pleased to be working with Tempest Security, which shares our firm’s strong commitment to providing organisations with the solutions they need to...

Spend management software provider Compleat Software is leveraging artificial intelligence to reduce invoice fraud by 90 percent among British businesses, equating to a potential £8bn a year. In a climate where British SMEs lose £9bn a year to invoice fraud, Compleat is to launch iCompleatInvoice, a self-service purchase invoice automation software which will all but eliminate fraud associated with paper-based accounting, where invoices are processed through the iCompleat platform. A report by the Tungsten Network...

Cylance Inc., the leading provider of AI-driven, prevention-first security solutions, today announced the availability of its virtual chief information security officer (vCISO) service, a program designed to provide organisations with critical technology and security resources that support next-generation security architectures and offer robust staff augmentation. Cylance vCISO enables customers at organisations large and small tackle the cybersecurity skills shortage that has long been a problem for CISOs. In fact, a recent study notes that the...

Dave Spence has been appointed Director of Response at leading cyber security consultancy, Context Information Security. Before joining Context, Dave spent the past 10 years at Deloitte advising clients and Boards about how to best manage their technical and business cyber risks and most recently running the UK Cyber Defence team including incident response, red teaming, threat intelligence, defence advisory and managed services. Prior to Deloitte, Dave worked at PricewaterhouseCoopers, assisting clients and audit teams...

Mimecast Limited (NASDAQ: MIME), a leading email and data security company, today announced the availability of its latest quarterly Email Security Risk Assessment (ESRA), an aggregated report of tests that measure the efficacy of widely used email security systems.* In comparison to last quarter’s findings, this new assessment found that email security systems are missing 25 percent more emails containing dangerous file types. Typically dangerous file types are rarely sent via email for legitimate purposes,...

By Chris Sherry, Regional Director, UKI and Northern Europe at ForeScout It doesn’t matter what industry organisations work within, cyber security has never been higher on their agenda. According to research from Beaming, UK businesses are attacked every 2.5 minutes, equalling 52,596 attacks every single quarter. This barrage of attack is unparalleled and rightly strikes fear into the heart of business owners up and down the country. But, what if bad actors become less concerned...

Tenable®, Inc., the Cyber Exposure company, today released the Measuring and Managing the Cyber Risks to Business Operations Report, an independent study conducted by Ponemon Institute. It found that 60 percent of organisations globally had suffered two or more business-disrupting cyber events — defined as cyber attacks causing data breaches or significant disruption and downtime to business operations, plant and operational equipment — in the last 24 months. Further, the vast majority of respondents (91...

A10 Networks (NYSE: ATEN), a provider of intelligent and automated cybersecurity solutions, today announced availability of the A10 Secure Service Mesh solution for applications deployed in open-source Kubernetes container environments. The solution provides teams deploying microservices applications with an easy, automated way to integrate enterprise-grade security and load-balancing with comprehensive application visibility and analytics. A10’s Secure Service Mesh is the first solution of its kind to protect east-west traffic and transparently encrypt traffic between microservices...

London, UK - Cyber security specialist CySure Ltd has partnered with Rubitek as a digital consulting re-seller. Rubitek has added CySure’s Virtual Online Security Officer (VOSO) to its digital consulting offering to support businesses worldwide with their cyber security. Sammy Williams, Digital Architect at and Director of Rubitek, said: “We are delighted to introduce CySure’s VOSO to our product suite. Cyber-attacks are becoming increasingly prominent in the world of business, so to be able to...

by Jason Howells, Director EMEA, Barracuda MSP With new European data regulation being established this year and companies buying each other up left, right and centre, it surely came as no surprise to anyone that cybersecurity and industry consolidation continued to be hot topics for the EMEA IT channel in 2018. While it’s not a very controversial prediction, I really do not expect this to change in the next year or so. But what does...