Protect customers from fraud with a unique fingerprint for devices
No two people have the exact same fingerprint. It is their uniqueness that makes them effective in aiding criminal investigations. Similarly, no two mobile or web devices leave the same digital fingerprint – a unique profile can be created for each one, and the technology used to develop this profile is crucial for vendors and […]
Modernising SecOps: It’s time to unpick the complex matrix
In the post-pandemic ‘new normal,’ businesses continue to embrace new working models powered by digital transformation, particularly cloud technologies. Eight out of ten employees indicated support for hybrid work models as the future norm, while 86% of businesses expect to accelerate cloud adoption post-pandemic. While urgent solutions to support remote and distributed workforces have fuelled transformation across […]
Keeping it simple helps beat cyber threats
The pace of technological change over the last 10 years has been high. Security products have become more automated, utilising the latest technology, such as artificial intelligence (AI), in an effort to get ahead of the criminals attacking IT infrastructure. Yet, despite all this, and the claims from the security industry that their innovations will […]
Cybersecurity’s too important to have a dysfunctional team
Technology has become vital for businesses across most sectors and industries to continue to operate. As a result, it has become crucial for businesses to recruit and retain tech talent, like software engineers and coders. Research from TechNation, has shown that not only does the UK technology sector have a talent shortage, but that it will […]
It’s not always malware
Every day, cyber incidents and their subsequent downtimes seem to fill the news These downtimes, both costly and damaging to consumer trust, have rightfully been something that CISOs and CIOs work to prevent with increasingly sophisticated security measures. But sometimes the most damaging “disasters” are the simplest. Earlier this year, one of the hyperscalers suffered […]
Cyber Security: The Message that Never makes it up to the Board
Cyber security was never a purely technical problem; it is now a leadership imperative in many firms For the past 20 years, cyber security – information security in its early days – has been seen primarily as a technical matter, to be solved by technologists using technology means. In most organisations, it has never been […]
Five Critical Ways to Protect Your Software Supply Chain
Every company building software is building a software supply chain. They do this through assembling open source components and libraries to speed up development or access new technologies, through use of third-party APIs from partners or services to add functionality, or the use of open source tools in the software development lifecycle (SDLC). DevOps teams heavily rely […]
Turning employees from the weakest to the strongest security links within companies
Staff should act as substantial barrier to cyber criminal’s attempts to get to data rather than offering an open door Cyber criminals targeting staff within organisations as the weakest link is nothing new. For years, users have been considered the chink in an organisation’s cyber armour and it’s easy to understand why. With increasingly sophisticated […]
Building resilience against emerging security threats
The growing focus on security reflects the fact that no business is immune from the threat of attack. And this problem is only set to grow: one study predicts that global cybercrime costs will reach $10.5 trillion USD annually by 2025 Successfully protecting a business and building resilience against malicious acts requires a complex and multi-layered approach: […]
Cyber hygiene can combat security threats posed by quantum computing
It’s more than 20 years since the idea of cyber hygiene became the go-to analogy for anyone trying to explain the importance of keeping data and computer systems safe from viruses and other cyber infections. And one of the earliest and most notable mentions is by internet visionary Vince Cerf. It can be traced back […]