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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

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 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.

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 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.

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

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.

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 […]

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

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 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 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

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 […]

Features 18.01.2024

What Not To Do: 23andMe Post-Breach Comms Review

The decision that 23andMe took to blame the victims for a serious data breach has baffled many cybersecurity and PR experts

Features 19.12.2023

Around the Cybersecurity World in 365 Days

There’s no such thing as a quiet year on planet cybersecurity. This year’s headlines are next year’s lessons

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 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 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

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

Blogs & Opinions 12.10.2023

Are Data Protection Standards Slipping in the Cloud Era?

The cloud undoubtedly comes with many positives, but it has also led to businesses storing far more data than they need to

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 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?

Blogs & Opinions 27.07.2023

Government Departments Haemorrhaging Data and Devices Aren’t Being Held Responsible

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 18.07.2023

Leaked Nudes Threat: The Horrifying New Low of a Data Breach

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 […]

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 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.

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 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?

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 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 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

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 19.12.2022

Cyber Insurance Debate: Cybersecurity Pro .vs. Cyber Insurance Pro

ESET’s Jake Moore takes on Assured’s Ed Ventham in a debate on cyber insurance

Features 30.11.2022

The Chronicles of Cyber Insurance: The Responder, The Lawyer and The Broker

What do you get when you mix an incident responder, a lawyer and a cyber broker?

Features 24.08.2022

The First Twenty-four Hours in Cyber Incident Response: Lessons from the Front Line

The first 24 hours post cyber incident are critical: This is the inside scoop.

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