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Features 17.12.2024

Five Incidents that Shaped the Cybersecurity Landscape in 2024

Assured Intelligence has compiled a breakdown of the top events that helped define the security landscape in 2024

Blogs & Opinions 10.12.2024

NIS2: Greater Resilience or More Red Tape?

NIS2 came into effect on 17 October but has so far proven something of a damp squib

Features 26.11.2024

AI Autopsy: UnitedHealth Ransomware: An Entirely Preventable Attack

How well did UnitedHealth handle the breach, and what can others learn from it?

Features 21.11.2024

Are Backups Beyond Data Enough to Secure Ransomware Resilience?

In an era of increasing ransomware, backups aren’t enough. Are new capabilities to restore your entire tech infrastructure the answer?

Blogs & Opinions 07.11.2024

CISO ‘How to’ Without the Bull: Third-Party Risk Management

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.

Interviews 29.10.2024

Five Minutes With: A Senior Technical Specialist at Coventry Building Society

Guy Heaton is the senior technical specialist responsible for backup and recovery at Coventry Building Society.

Blogs & Opinions 24.10.2024

Rethinking Mac Safety: Strategies for Enhanced Workplace Protection

There are now 300 identified malware families for macOS.

Features 15.10.2024

Follow the Honey: How Cyber-Deception Can Help CISOs

The NCSC is building “a nation-scale evidence base” for cyber-deception

Interviews 10.10.2024

Five Minutes With: A Global Data Governance Officer

Jakub Lewandowski is a lawyer, and data privacy and security counsel, currently representing Commvault as its global data governance officer.

Features 24.09.2024

AI Autopsy: National Public Data Breach

137 million email addresses were leaked, alongside 272 million social security numbers.

Features 19.09.2024

SaaS Data Breaches Are Surging: How Should Security Teams Respond?

What do SaaS customers need to do to harness the benefits of the cloud without inviting excessive cyber risk?

Features 12.09.2024

DDoS Evolution: What You Need to Know

DDoS attacks rose 112% from 2022 to 2023

Features 05.09.2024

Out of the Shadows: Why it’s Time to Shine a Light on Unmanaged Data

The cost of data breaches is rising. Shadow data is one of the reasons for this.

Features 29.08.2024

Why Cybersecurity Investments Come Too Late

Cybersecurity is often a ‘grudge purchase’ made after a successful cyber attack has damaged a company, rather than before.

Interviews 21.08.2024

Five Minutes With: A CISO

What keeps Cyro Cyber’s CISO up at night? Here’s a spoiler…it’s people!

Features 15.08.2024

That Sinking Feeling: How Can the Maritime Industry Improve Cyber Resilience?

Do shipping companies feel anchored down by cyber risk?

Features 13.08.2024

Mis-sold and Misinformed: The Problem with Cyber Insurance?

A combination of mis-sold policies, coverage small print, and generalist brokers threaten to do more harm than good.

Interviews 06.08.2024

Five Minutes With: A CSO

Chris Denbigh-White is the chief security officer for Next DLP. He gives his hot takes on the cybersecurity industry that stole his heart

Blogs & Opinions 18.07.2024

How CISOs Can Navigate Legal Risk and Accountability

CISOs are often stretched thin, often without the same protections as other executive team members.

Features 11.06.2024

Dropbox Hack: 5 Lessons from the Dropbox Sign Breach

This incident shows breaches can inadvertently compromise the data of individuals who may not have had a Dropbox account

Features 30.05.2024

Building Back Safer: Why Construction Firms Need to Tackle Mounting Cyber Threats

In a sector focused on building physical things, digital threats have often played second fiddle to physical risks on-site.

Interviews 23.05.2024

Five Minutes With: A Chief Security Authority

BT’s Dave Harcourt is optimistic about AI, hates the cybersecurity ‘ivory tower,’ and cherishes the time he spent working with NCSC’s Ian Levy.

Features 21.05.2024

A Hacked MoD and the Growing Threat of China

The (cyber) threat posed by China is well-documented.

Features 07.05.2024

‘;– Have I been Clwned? An Assured AI Voice Cloning Experiment

We used AI to clone the voices of myself and our CEO to launch a targeted phishing attack on an Assured team member!

Features 23.04.2024

Logistics Uncovered: Understanding the Cyber Threat to Physical Supply Chains

After KNP declared bankruptcy following a ransomware attack last year, we investigate the top cyber risks facing the logistics sector.

Blogs & Opinions 11.04.2024

Government Can’t Manage the Deepfake Threat – Execs Need to Shoulder the Responsibility Instead

Any faith in the ability of governments to deal with deepfakes is misplaced

Features 03.04.2024

Patching Problems: Why Vendor Security Updates Are Letting Down Customers

The MOVEit file transfer software impacted tens of millions of end customers

Features 21.03.2024

Why Professional Services Are Being Singled Out by Cyber Threat Actors

Phil Muncaster investigates why an industry that deals in knowledge is particularly exposed to info theft and extortion

Interviews 07.03.2024

Five Minutes With: A Field CISO

Meet Dirk Schrader, field CISO (EMEA) and VP of Security Research at Netwrix.

Features 05.03.2024

Business Email Compromise: How Not to Lose $121m Like Google and Facebook

How BEC is becoming a bigger threat and what you can do about it

Features 13.02.2024

Unpatched Patches: Three Critical Patches that Just Keep Bleeding

Unpatched issues can result in dire consequences, as the worst flaws of recent times show. Kate O’Flaherty considers the podium of recent unpatched flaws and questions why firms are so slow to patch Patching: You can’t live with it, but you definitely can’t live without it. And as many firms have discovered, failing to patch […]

Interviews 23.01.2024

Getting to Know: Lisa Forte

There’s @LisaForteUK. And then there’s Lisa Forte. Most people only know the former, but Eleanor Dallaway met the ‘real Lisa Forte’ for a walls down heart-to-heart.

Blogs & Opinions 04.01.2024

Advanced Threat Intelligence: Transforming Cybersecurity Effectiveness

Evolving cyber threats requires evolving threat intelligence. Here’s how to do it.

Features 02.01.2024

Voice Cloning: The (£27m) Cost of a Stolen Voice

When an AI-enabled voice cloning cyber attack fools a branch manager into transferring £27m out of the business, it’s time to pay attention to the new cyber weapon

Blogs & Opinions 28.12.2023

Why Convergence is Gold For Networking and Security

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

Shadow AI and the AI Apps That Are a CISO’s Nightmare

Forty per cent of enterprise apps involve uploading content, code, files, or spreadsheets for AI assistance. This raises huge data leakage questions.

Features 07.12.2023

When Aggregation Sites Are Targeted: The Booking.com Ripple Effect

Who’s legally liable when aggregation site customers are targeted by hackers?

Blogs & Opinions 05.12.2023

ChatGPT Turns One: A Story of Trust, Sensitive Data and Skills

One year older, but is it one year wiser?

Features 30.11.2023

The British Library Attack: Are Ransomware Actors Inflating the Severity of Attacks?

Is there any such thing as ransomware that’s ‘not so bad’?

Features 21.11.2023

The 2023 Sony Breaches: 5 Important Takeaways

Sony’s reputation has taken a bashing over the last few months after it was hit by two high-profile breaches.

Features 16.11.2023

Harpooning the Whale: Why BEC is the Scourge of the Time-Poor C-Suite

Fraudsters continue to adapt their business email compromise techniques to make a fortune

Blogs & Opinions 03.11.2023

Insider Threats: A Proactive Protection Strategy

Keep your friends close, and your insiders closer…

Features 26.10.2023

Five-Minute Snapshot: What You Need to Know About the SecureWorks State of the Threat Report

Top trends include ransomware, nation-state attacks and business email compromise

Blogs & Opinions 24.10.2023

Why Cybersecurity Needs to be Part of ESG

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.

Features 17.10.2023

The 7 Worst Hacking Groups in the World

Assured Intelligence introduces seven hacking groups that have risen to infamy, running amok in global networks and leaving a trail of disruption

Features 05.10.2023

Home-Grown Trouble: Five of the Biggest Insider Threats of 2023

Edward Snowden put the term ‘insider threat’ firmly on the map in 2013. A decade later, insiders are still running amok…

Blogs & Opinions 03.10.2023

Chinese Espionage is Back on Track: What Businesses Need to Know

The stakes just got higher in the world of cyber espionage.

Features 14.09.2023

The Five Worst Cybersecurity Holes of 2023

Patching security holes is an exhausting but essential part of risk management. Assured Intelligence looks at some of 2023’s biggest security flaws

Features 07.09.2023

Retail Sector Cyber Attacks: Shopping for Security

The retail sector has made headlines due to many high-profile (and costly) data breaches. What can retailers do to stay clear of the front pages?

Features 31.08.2023

Supply Chain Risk: Log4j, SolarWinds, What’s Next?

Supply chain risk is responsible for a lot of those big-ticket cyber headlines. What can you do about it?

Features 22.08.2023

Ransomware Trends: What Every Exec Needs to Know

How can execs protect their business from becoming a victim of ransomware?

Features 10.08.2023

SOS: Data Centres Are Running Out of Power

There’s no denying that data centres have a power problem. The more uncertain question is, how do we fix it?

Blogs & Opinions 08.08.2023

Is your Board Paying Cybersecurity Lip Service?

Cyber risk is increasingly prevalent as a Boardroom topic, but just talking about it isn’t enough…

Blogs & Opinions 01.08.2023

What Risk Officers Need to Know about How Generative AI is Transforming Financial Services

Generative AI is transforming financial services, and Olivier Bessi is considering the opportunities and the risks that this evolution entails

Features 25.07.2023

Investing in Cybersecurity: Are Execs Protecting Their Bonus Rather Than Their Organisation?

It’s time to call a spade a spade. What’s really behind an executive’s cybersecurity investment decisions?

Features 20.07.2023

The Bigger Picture: Why Cyber Risk Aggregation Matters

Aggregate cyber risk should inform executive cyber strategy and help insurers to price cyber policies more accurately. Here’s how…

Features 11.07.2023

What You Really Need to Know About Verizon’s 2023 Data Breach Investigations Report: A Five-Minute Read

If you don’t have time to read all 89 pages of the Verizon’s DBIR, Assured Intelligence has pulled out the highlights in a five-minute read

Features 04.07.2023

Know Your Enemy: The Nation-States Provoking a Hundred Cyber Battles

How can organisations bolster their cybersecurity against nation-state threats?

Features 29.06.2023

Closed for Business: The Organisations That Suffered Fatal Cyber Attacks that Shut Their Doors For Good

Assured Intelligence has taken a look at some of the companies that have gone out of business due to a cyber-attack to bring you the low-down on what happened in each case.

Features 15.06.2023

Unlocking the Truth: An Inside Look at the ION Ransomware Attack

The ransomware attack on ION is a stark reminder of the increasing cyber threats that financial institutions face.

Blogs & Opinions 08.06.2023

Four Considerations for CISOs Making Security Investment Decisions

Ellen Sundra considers benchmarking, connectivity, scaling and automation.

Features 23.05.2023

Damage Control: How to Rebuild Your Reputation After a Cyber Attack

Clear, concise and transparent communication can help limit the damage to a firm’s reputation following a cyber-attack, but it’s not easy to get right

Blogs & Opinions 18.05.2023

Easy as 1, 2, 3: How the Education Sector Can Combat Cyber Threats

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.

Features 16.05.2023

Turning the Lights on an Energy Sector Under Cyber Attack

There are three categories of hackers particularly interested in targeting the energy sector. Who are they? And what can be done to protect energy?

Blogs & Opinions 12.05.2023

Four Things CEOs Need to Know About DORA

DORA aims to ensure that the financial services industry can withstand and respond to digital risks. Here’s the low-down on the regulation

Features 04.05.2023

The Pentagon Leaks: An Insider Horror Story

Does your organisation have a ‘Pentagon leaker’? It’s time to find out

Blogs & Opinions 19.04.2023

ChatGPT for the Legal Industry: Friend or Foe?

The legal sector has much to gain from using ChatGPT but also much to lose. Lawrence Perret-Hall weighs up the advantages and disadvantages

Interviews 04.04.2023

A Cyber Insurance Broker Grilling

Insurance exasperating ransomware? An immature sector? Savings instead of insurance? Dan Raywood grills Assured’s head cyber broker, Ed Ventham, about the state of cyber insurance

Blogs & Opinions 31.03.2023

Microsoft Active Directory: What Is It and Why Is It a Gateway to So Many Successful Cyber Attacks?

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

Features 28.03.2023

Lost in Cyber Translation

Gordon Smith challenges the inappropriate rhetoric of the cybersecurity industry

Blogs & Opinions 22.03.2023

Why Being Cyber Insurable is a Company Effort

Cyber insurance is no longer niche, and is a topic that needs to find its way into the boardroom, says Andy Harris

Features 17.03.2023

Banking on Vulnerability: Why Financial Institutions are Facing Increasing Cyber Attacks

Cyber attackers are increasingly banking on poor cybersecurity practices in financial institutions, raking in profits thanks to legacy practices and tech.

Features 07.03.2023

Unpicking the Great CISO Resignation

CISO turnover is high, and a tenure rarely exceeds two years. But why? Dan Raywood investigates the concerning trend of the great CISO resignation

Features 03.03.2023

Five Audacious and Outrageous Cybersecurity Predictions for 2023

Kate O’Flaherty compiles five outrageous cybersecurity predictions for 2023 made by experts with their tongues firmly in their cheeks

Assured Reacts 28.02.2023

Assured Reacts: CSO Online Compiles Seven Reasons to Avoid Cyber Insurance. We Dispel Each and Every One.

We share seven counter-arguments to the points reported in CSO Online’s article, ‘7 reasons to avoid investing in cyber insurance’

Blogs & Opinions 27.02.2023

Why the WEF Cybersecurity Report Should be Taken into Boardrooms

Brian Honan details why the WEF Global Cybersecurity Outlook is an infosec leader’s best friend

Features 23.02.2023

Building on Solid Foundations: Cybersecurity in Architecture

Why are architects and the companies they work with in construction and engineering among those least prepared for a cybersecurity attack?

Features 16.02.2023

Why the Legal Sector is Under Cyber Siege

Large quantities of sensitive data coupled with chronic under-investment in security have made the legal sector a prime target for cyber criminals.

Features 15.02.2023

Royal Mail Ransomware Attack: Delivering a Questionable Incident Response

Many have been quick to reprehend Royal Mail for its handling of the recent cyber attack. Gordon Smith analyses the response to deliver a verdict on Royal Mail’s operation

Features 10.02.2023

Living in ‘Forgot Password’ Hell? Here’s How to Escape

Alex Meehan looks at ways to crack the password conundrum

Features 07.02.2023

Post-Breach, Red-Faced CEOs: You’re Fired

Cyber incidents can define a CEO’s career, as can a blush-worthy security faux pas.

Features 07.02.2023

Cyber Risk Real Talk: How to Identify and Address Your Unique Risk

It’s hardly setting the world alight by announcing that determining cyber risk is crucial to a successful cybersecurity response. Kathryn Pick helps to identify how an organisation goes about identifying where that risk lies

Features 01.01.2023

CEO Burn-out: Half a Minute From Death

Burn-out is often a CEO’s dirty little secret. Eleanor Dallaway investigates

Features 24.10.2022

Panic in the Board Room! Should CEOs be Held Accountable for Cyber Attacks?

When the cyber proverbial hits the fan, is it the CEO who is accountable?

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