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Blogs & Opinions 17.10.2024

Ensuring NIS2 Compliance With Proactive Cyber Resilience

NIS2 is here. Are you ready?

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!

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 20.02.2024

Exploring DORA: Everything You Need to Know About the Forthcoming Regulation

Phil Muncaster takes a look at the EU’s new blockbuster rules for the IT sector and financial services

Blogs & Opinions 15.02.2024

Key Cyber Policy Updates All Board Members Should Act on in 2024

Board-level responsibility for cybersecurity can be far more extensive than many assume.

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.

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 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 23.11.2023

The Great Cyber Attack Silence

Silence is golden. Except when it comes to cyber attacks…

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 14.11.2023

Understanding the UK Cybersecurity Professional Standard

Advocates for the professional standard envision creating a clear career path through a complex and disjointed cybersecurity industry.

Features 09.11.2023

SolarWinds CISO Charged with Fraud: What it Means for CISOs

SolarWinds CISO Tim Brown has been explicitly named for allegedly failing to inform investors or act on known security vulnerabilities. Callum Booth talks with CISOs to figure out what this means for the future of the CISO role At the end of October, shockwaves rippled through the cybersecurity sector. Following 2020’s notorious Sunburst attack, the […]

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.

Events 26.08.2023

Grab the Mic: Women in Cyber 2023

Assured Intelligence is delighted to announce the launch of a brand-new women in cybersecurity event coming to London this September.

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?

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 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

Blogs & Opinions 08.06.2023

Four Considerations for CISOs Making Security Investment Decisions

Ellen Sundra considers benchmarking, connectivity, scaling and automation.

Features 25.05.2023

On the Hook for Cyber Negligence: CISOs and CEOs Facing Jail Time

Personal cases against executives over cybersecurity issues are on the increase. Is it still safe to be a CISO?

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

Interviews 24.04.2023

Getting to Know: Chris Federspiel

You may never have read an interview as candid, heart-felt and vulnerable as this one. Eleanor Dallaway tells the story of Chis Federspiel, founder of Blackthorn.io

Features 17.04.2023

Five Reasons CEOs Should Be On TikTok…and Five Reasons Why They Shouldn’t

Should CEOs succumb to addictive and trendy TikTok in the hope of captivating an entirely new potential customer base? Callum Booth looks at the pros and cons of CEOs having a presence on TikTok

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 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

Blogs & Opinions 30.01.2023

This is Assured. We are Assured. I am Assured.

A story about a cybersecurity mag editor landing in a cyber insurance broker…

Features 20.01.2023

Crossing the Cybersecurity Poverty Line

In times of economic instability, the cybersecurity poverty line becomes ever thicker. Dan Raywood offers economically viable advice for cash-strapped businesses