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
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52 results for "Data Breaches"
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?
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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.