Blogs & Opinions 05.12.2024
CISO ‘How to’ Without the Bull: Phishing Simulations
Are phishing simulations right or wrong?
Blogs & Opinions 05.12.2024
Are phishing simulations right or wrong?
Blogs & Opinions 28.11.2024
Among the shifting ransomware ecosystem landscape, two new groups are worth noting.
Blogs & Opinions 14.11.2024
Conor O’Neill highlights the true cost of a data breach to your company and how businesses can minimise future risks.
Blogs & Opinions 07.11.2024
These blogs will focus on making a tangible difference in a language the business understands. The points are drawn from experience delivering cybersecurity transformation programmes in multiple industries.
Blogs & Opinions 24.10.2024
There are now 300 identified malware families for macOS.
Blogs & Opinions 17.10.2024
NIS2 is here. Are you ready?
Blogs & Opinions 17.09.2024
The capabilities of GenAI are aiding and speeding up the creation of effective ransomware toolkits
Blogs & Opinions 11.09.2024
The cyber industry must shake off its boys’ club reputation and ensure diversity at every level – from entry to boardroom.
Blogs & Opinions 03.09.2024
It’s happened. Your organisation is now one of the 70% hit by a cyber attack. What now?
Blogs & Opinions 27.08.2024
The CSR Bill’s current focus on regulatory compliance and incident reporting is vital, but it should strongly emphasise the human factor in cybersecurity.
Blogs & Opinions 08.08.2024
Reflecting on 2024 so far, the cyber danger zones can be divided into key areas.
Blogs & Opinions 30.07.2024
When it comes to protecting healthcare data and systems, the threat is high, and the stakes are even higher, warns Dr. Darren Williams In early June 2024, major London hospitals, including Kings College Hospital and Guy’s and St Thomas’s, declared a critical incident following a ransomware attack on Synnovis, a pathology services provider. This cyber […]
Blogs & Opinions 25.07.2024
The Labour government promised “change” as its big election manifesto theme. Will that stretch to cyber?
Blogs & Opinions 18.07.2024
CISOs are often stretched thin, often without the same protections as other executive team members.
Blogs & Opinions 13.06.2024
Cybersecurity leaders face immense pressure to strengthen their organisations’ defences. Yet the industry is struggling to fill positions. Luckily, CAPSLOCK’s Dr Andrea Cullen has a plan The UK’s cybersecurity sector is still struggling to fill positions. The government estimates that 51% of UK companies lack basic cyber skills. This shortage of cybersecurity professionals is putting […]
Blogs & Opinions 16.05.2024
Peter Danhieux shares three best practices to consider when developing an internal upskilling programme.
Blogs & Opinions 02.05.2024
What exactly is a security culture and how can organisations build and maintain one?
Blogs & Opinions 11.04.2024
Any faith in the ability of governments to deal with deepfakes is misplaced
Blogs & Opinions 04.04.2024
By failing to prepare, you’re preparing to fail, so get that incident response plan in place, says Chris Denbigh-White If two buildings are ablaze, then it stands to reason that the one with fire marshalls, evacuation plans, sprinkler systems and the one that has taken steps to improve its ability to contain a fire with […]
Blogs & Opinions 19.03.2024
What’s changed in the ransomware landscape in 2024? Chris Rogers considers the psyche of those writing the code and looks at new tactics, tools and the prevalence of double-extortion ransomware The cybersecurity ecosystem moves at an extremely rapid pace. However, in the months ahead, it seems inevitable that organisations will be faced with even more […]
Blogs & Opinions 29.02.2024
Large-scale data breach class action lawsuits aren’t new, the number of collective actions being filed in the UK is on the rise
Blogs & Opinions 22.02.2024
Sometimes it’s the simple things that can have the biggest impact on cybersecurity posture
Blogs & Opinions 15.02.2024
Board-level responsibility for cybersecurity can be far more extensive than many assume.
Blogs & Opinions 30.01.2024
Which is more effective in improving a company’s cybersecurity posture?
Blogs & Opinions 11.01.2024
There are three ways that CISOs can use security data lakes to drive accountability.
Blogs & Opinions 04.01.2024
Evolving cyber threats requires evolving threat intelligence. Here’s how to do it.
Blogs & Opinions 28.12.2023
Dave Greenfield believes in the power of converged networking and security teams, and he’s put pen to paper to explain why The convergence of networking with security forms a pivotal foundation in protecting IT infrastructures against the ever-evolving landscape of cyber threats. This union not only safeguards sensitive data and critical resources, but also bolsters […]
Blogs & Opinions 26.12.2023
Forty per cent of enterprise apps involve uploading content, code, files, or spreadsheets for AI assistance. This raises huge data leakage questions.
Blogs & Opinions 12.12.2023
Sometimes the apples really are greener…
Blogs & Opinions 05.12.2023
One year older, but is it one year wiser?
Blogs & Opinions 28.11.2023
The bulk of skills shortages in cybersecurity are for experienced personnel. But why?
Blogs & Opinions 03.11.2023
Keep your friends close, and your insiders closer…
Blogs & Opinions 24.10.2023
The C-suite needs to be able to view the cyber risk profile of the business to determine how well it meets its ESG objectives.
Blogs & Opinions 12.10.2023
The cloud undoubtedly comes with many positives, but it has also led to businesses storing far more data than they need to
Blogs & Opinions 03.10.2023
The stakes just got higher in the world of cyber espionage.
Blogs & Opinions 29.09.2023
Over 200 people (and one pigeon) attended our inaugural event. Here’s what happened.
Blogs & Opinions 19.09.2023
No Technical skills or expertise? No problem. You can still become a cyber criminal…
Blogs & Opinions 05.09.2023
Where does the moral boundary for cyber vigilantism lie?
Blogs & Opinions 29.08.2023
The AI technology used to execute next-gen social engineering attacks can also be deployed to defend against them. Here’s how to be on the right side of it…
Blogs & Opinions 08.08.2023
Cyber risk is increasingly prevalent as a Boardroom topic, but just talking about it isn’t enough…
Blogs & Opinions 01.08.2023
Generative AI is transforming financial services, and Olivier Bessi is considering the opportunities and the risks that this evolution entails
Blogs & Opinions 27.07.2023
Government departments are exploiting loopholes to avoid cybersecurity failure disclosures, and increasingly relaxed regulation means they’re getting away with it, bemoans Jon Fielding After five years of GDPR and three years of hybrid working, you’d expect organisations to have improved their data handling and device security. But in the public sector, losses are still […]
Blogs & Opinions 21.07.2023
They say good things come in threes. This is my third content and marketing gig working in tech, but this time it’s different. It’s cyber. Only cyber. Or to be more specific, cybersecurity. There’s no data engineering, JavaScript, manual testing, SQL or business analysis to fall back on. Just scary, unknown, cybersecurity Everywhere I’ve worked […]
Blogs & Opinions 18.07.2023
Data breaches have taken a terrifying turn as cyber criminals stoop to new lows, threatening to expose personal and intimate photos of female data breach victims. Nikki Webb investigates the painful consequences that breach victims face Louise, a resident of South Wales, found herself caught in a web of deceit and fear after her private […]
Blogs & Opinions 08.06.2023
Ellen Sundra considers benchmarking, connectivity, scaling and automation.
Blogs & Opinions 18.05.2023
While cybersecurity is a top concern for education institutions, many face resource limitations when it comes to constructing proper cyber defence strategies due to a lack of budget, staff, and technology.
Blogs & Opinions 12.05.2023
DORA aims to ensure that the financial services industry can withstand and respond to digital risks. Here’s the low-down on the regulation
Blogs & Opinions 19.04.2023
The legal sector has much to gain from using ChatGPT but also much to lose. Lawrence Perret-Hall weighs up the advantages and disadvantages
Blogs & Opinions 14.04.2023
Beth Robinson highlights the additional considerations that those with a double X chromosome may need to take if aspiring to be a professional hacker
Blogs & Opinions 31.03.2023
Ninety percent of cyber attacks exploit Microsoft Active Directory. This statistic alone should be enough to make CEOs wake up to its challenges, argues Guido Grillenmeier
Blogs & Opinions 22.03.2023
Cyber insurance is no longer niche, and is a topic that needs to find its way into the boardroom, says Andy Harris
Blogs & Opinions 20.03.2023
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Blogs & Opinions 27.02.2023
Brian Honan details why the WEF Global Cybersecurity Outlook is an infosec leader’s best friend
Blogs & Opinions 15.02.2023
Javvad Malik advises how to maximise value when attending cybersecurity events
Blogs & Opinions 30.01.2023
A story about a cybersecurity mag editor landing in a cyber insurance broker…