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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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 03.12.2024
Quantum Computing Breaks Encryption: How Worried Should CISOs Be?
How close are we to the end of encryption as we know it?
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?
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
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 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 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 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 09.04.2024
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 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 27.02.2024
UN Cybercrime Treaty: Harmful to Research?
What if, in order to try to deter cybercrime, the result is to deter cybersecurity researchers?
Features 08.02.2024
The NCSC’s Artificial Intelligence Warning: What Next for CISOs?
The latest report from the NCSC claims AI will “almost certainly increase the volume and heighten the impact of cyber attacks over the next two years.”
Features 25.01.2024
Ransomware in the UK: A Catastrophic Risk?
The House of Commons and House of Lords released a report on UK national security, warning that the UK is at risk of a catastrophic ransomware attack. Assured Intelligence breaks that down.
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 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 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 […]
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 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 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 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 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 […]
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?
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 01.06.2023
Two to Tango: Are the Private and Public Sector Pulling Their Weight in the Fight Against Cyber Crime?
Celebrated instances of botnet takedowns and cyber crime indictments often rely on major cybersecurity vendors for intelligence and expertise. But can the government bring cyber criminals to justice without the backing of the private sector? Dan Raywood investigates Earlier this year, Assured Intelligence considered global law enforcement’s response efforts to ransomware. We questioned whether there […]
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
Features 25.04.2023
The Online Safety Bill: Clauses, Backdoors and a Great Britain Without WhatsApp
The Online Safety Bill has laudable aims, but experts believe it will make UK businesses a huge target by undermining encryption. Phil Muncaster investigates
Features 30.03.2023
Healthcare Held to Ransom: Not What the Doctor Ordered
Kate O’Flaherty explores why cyber attacks on healthcare organisations are on the rise and makes a diagnosis for a sector under constant attack
Features 14.03.2023
Ransomware Response: It’s Time for the World to Join Hands
Government operations are being created to deal with the ransomware epidemic, but will it be enough to turn the tide?