Blogs & Opinions 14.11.2024
Weighing Up Potential Loss and Prevention in the Wake of Crowdstrike and NetworkRail Outages
Conor O’Neill highlights the true cost of a data breach to your company and how businesses can minimise future risks.
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125 results for "Cyber Risk"
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.
Features 31.10.2024
Trouble Squared: What Happens When Nation States and Cyber Criminals Work Together?
Reports claim that the majority of attributable malware-based attacks are now state-sponsored. What does this mean for CISOs?
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 22.10.2024
AI Autopsy: American Water Cyber Attack
On October 3 2024, American Water, the largest water company in the US, discovered it had been hit by a cyber attack
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 08.10.2024
Critical Infrastructure Under Cyber Siege
60% of UK CNI organisations have experienced ransomware over the previous year
Features 03.10.2024
Game Over? Cybersecurity Threats Surge in Online Gaming
Are your employees gamers? And if so, what does that mean for your security posture?
Interviews 01.10.2024
Five Minutes With: A Technical Director
How does one transition from windsurfing instructor to cybersecurity tech director? Dan Bridges knows…
Features 26.09.2024
AI Autopsy: The Long Road to Recovery for the British Library
The British Library has shared a detailed report of the 2023 cyber incident and its aftermath. Assured Intelligence picks out the highlights for our autopsy report
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 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.
Blogs & Opinions 03.09.2024
Cyber Resilience: Identity is at the Heart of Response and Recovery
It’s happened. Your organisation is now one of the 70% hit by a cyber attack. What now?
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.
Blogs & Opinions 27.08.2024
The Role of the Human Factor in the Cybersecurity and Resilience Bill
The CSR Bill’s current focus on regulatory compliance and incident reporting is vital, but it should strongly emphasise the human factor in cybersecurity.
Features 22.08.2024
An AI Autopsy: AT&T’s 2024 Data Breaches
The first in our AI Autopsy series…Features that analyse and dissect recent cyber incidents, providing lessons learnt so cybersecurity professionals can avoid history repeating itself
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.
Blogs & Opinions 08.08.2024
The Six Biggest Cyber Threats of 2024
Reflecting on 2024 so far, the cyber danger zones can be divided into key areas.
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
Features 01.08.2024
Danger: Don’t Get Too Close to (the) Edge (Computing)
The monthly addition of edge service and infrastructure CVEs rose by 22%. So, how can CISOs protect the edge more effectively?
Blogs & Opinions 30.07.2024
Cyber Resilience in Healthcare: Tackling Ransomware with Advanced Cyber Defences
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 Party Promised Change: What Does That Mean for Cyber?
The Labour government promised “change” as its big election manifesto theme. Will that stretch to cyber?
Features 16.07.2024
TikTok and the Threat Posed by Zero-click Attacks
Multiple celebrities and big brands, including Paris Hilton, CNN, and Sony, were hit by the TikTok ‘zero-click’ attack.
Features 04.07.2024
Lives on the Line: Life Threatening Cyber Attacks Raising the Stakes for CISOs
Six NHS trusts in London and countless GP practices in surrounding regions recently suffered major disruption after a ransomware attack
Features 02.07.2024
Can the PSTI Act Resolve the IoT Security Nightmare?
The PSTI Act came into play in April 2024, aiming to improve resilience for notoriously insecure IoT devices
Features 18.06.2024
NVD Meltdown: Three Ways CISOs Can Fill a Growing Gap in their CVE Awareness
With the National Vulnerability Database (NVD) at crisis point, how can CISOs mitigate the risk of vulnerability exposure?
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
Interviews 04.06.2024
Five Minutes With: An Associate Professor and University Reader in Cybersecurity
Dr Jason Nurse names AI as the biggest unsolved problem in cybersecurity. And he believes that good cybersecurity training is the bare minimum for improving cybersecurity posture.
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 14.05.2024
Lessons in Cybersecurity for the Education Sector
Education was the most attacked sector in the UK in the last six months
Features 09.05.2024
Cybersecurity’s Top Three Concerns According to TikTok and Deutsche Telekom
Top security leaders share their three biggest cybersecurity concerns
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!
Blogs & Opinions 02.05.2024
Security Culture: Out With Ephemeral, In With a Lasting Psychological Approach
What exactly is a security culture and how can organisations build and maintain one?
Features 30.04.2024
The Stolen iPhone Epidemic
This five-minute read will be the differentiator if you ever find yourself a victim of iPhone theft.
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.
Features 18.04.2024
Lessons From the xz Utils Supply Chain Attack that Nearly Hacked the World
A Microsoft developer recently discovered one of the most sophisticated software supply chain attacks ever conceived.
Interviews 16.04.2024
Getting to Know: @cybersecmeg
Eleanor Dallaway ticks off another bucket list interviewee: the enigma that is @cybersecuritymeg
Features 12.04.2024
Insurers Are Taking a Hard Line on Ivanti: Should Customers Be Concerned?
The CEO of Coalition turned heads with his candid “We’ve long declined to organisations using vulnerable Ivanti appliances” comment last week.
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 09.04.2024
Securing a Record-Breaking Election Year: Easier Said than Cyber Done
More than two billion people, including UK and US citizens, are set to head to the polls this year, which invites plenty of speculation about the security of the voting process.
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
Blogs & Opinions 19.03.2024
Getting Into the Psyche of a Ransomware Hacker in 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 […]
Features 14.03.2024
Gone in (less than) 60 Seconds: How My Mercedes was Hacked and Stolen While My Family Slept
A month ago, my car was hacked and stolen in the middle of the night. So, for the first (and hopefully last) time, I’m the subject of my own article. First things first: If specifying the make of my car in the title comes across as crass, that is not my intent. I did it […]
Features 12.03.2024
Software Security Liability Regimes: The Good, The Bad and the Buggy
Untangling the nuances of liability regimes for software makers that rush code to market.
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 01.02.2024
Five Technologies Threatening Cybersecurity in 2024
Take it with more than a pinch of salt, artificial intelligence should be at the top of every CISO’s watchlist for 2024
Blogs & Opinions 30.01.2024
Pen Testing v Ethical Hacking: Which is Better?
Which is more effective in improving a company’s cybersecurity posture?
Blogs & Opinions 11.01.2024
Three Things CISOs Can Do to Drive Accountability
There are three ways that CISOs can use security data lakes to drive accountability.
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 21.12.2023
When Cyber Attacks Threaten Lives: A Candid Assessment of The Reality of OT Threats
Assured Intelligence talks to hacktivist group GhostSec to get its perspective on industrial control system threats
Features 14.12.2023
The Allen & Overy Ransomware Incident: What You Need to Know
Six lessons that all businesses should take from the Allen & Overy ransomware incident
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
Features 07.11.2023
Black Friday: How Retailers Can Get Through the Cyber Turbulence Unscathed
The high-stakes, high-traffic days of Black Friday and Cyber Monday promise skyrocketing sales but also lurking cyber attacks
Blogs & Opinions 03.11.2023
Insider Threats: A Proactive Protection Strategy
Keep your friends close, and your insiders closer…
Features 31.10.2023
How to Create the Perfect Incident Response Strategy in Eight Steps
It’s time to get your incident response ducks in a row…
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
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 10.10.2023
Unlocking the Mind: The Psychology of Password Creation
Is a successful password strategy the tech equivalent of the Holy Grail?
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 26.09.2023
PSNI Breaches: The Real Cost of Security Failure
Given Northern Ireland’s deeply troubled political climate, the stakes are high in the aftermath of the PSNI breaches
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 12.09.2023
Save Britannia: Cyber Risk for Critical National Infrastructure
The UK government is warning about rising cyber risk levels. Should we be worried?
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 03.08.2023
Do You Need to Worry About Spyware?
If you don’t know where you stand with the spyware threat, read on…
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?
Blogs & Opinions 21.07.2023
A Cyber Dummy’s Guide to the Galaxy
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 […]
Features 13.07.2023
Five Cyber Scams That Could Fool Even the Savviest Victim
There are five categories of cyber scams that can fool even the shrewdest of people. Here’s how not to get caught out.
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 06.07.2023
Stormy Seas: Cybersecurity Challenges in the Logistics Sector
From Americold to SolarWinds, logistics companies have been, and continue to be, vulnerable to cyber attacks. Eugene Yiga investigates
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 12.06.2023
Bug Bounty Programme or Penetration Testing: Which is Right For You?
What are the merits of penetration testing versus bug bounty programmes, and which approach enhances overall security most effectively?
Blogs & Opinions 08.06.2023
Four Considerations for CISOs Making Security Investment Decisions
Ellen Sundra considers benchmarking, connectivity, scaling and automation.
Interviews 06.06.2023
Getting to Know: Professor Alan Woodward
Professor Alan Woodward’s CV is impressive, to say the least. Equally as impressive as his straight-talking, no-nonsense and highly articulate way of communicating cyber risk. Ladies and Gents, meet Professor Alan Woodward
Features 30.05.2023
Anatomy of a Stealthy Cyber Attack: 10 Steps to Take in the Aftermath of a Data Breach
Attack prevention is a much-talked about area of security, but what happens after a breach takes place?
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 09.05.2023
Which Jobs Are Safe from Artificial Intelligence? Spoiler: Not Many
Will robots and algorithms replace our jobs? Or are we simply overreacting to the latest tech trend?
Features 04.05.2023
The Pentagon Leaks: An Insider Horror Story
Does your organisation have a ‘Pentagon leaker’? It’s time to find out
Features 02.05.2023
Five Things the Royal Mail Ransom Transcript Leak Taught Us About Ransom Negotiations
The exposure of the leaked ransom negotiation logs may suggest a failed negotiation, but on closer inspection, many consider it a well-played hand by Royal Mail
Features 28.04.2023
Halt and Catch Fire: Why Pausing AI Development Could be a Cybersecurity Disaster
Calls to stop the training of artificial intelligence models could backfire big time. Hear from cybersecurity experts about why.