More people than ever now have security jobs in the UK
With lockdowns forcing people to spend more time online than ever, cybersecurity has taken on even greater importance and the industry has grown significantly as a result. According to a report from the UK government, the number of businesses operating in the cybersecurity field grew by 21 percent last year. In total, there are now 1,483 security-focused companies operating in …
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Security threat to critical infrastructure reaches record high
Industrial organizations are speeding up their digital transformation efforts in order to better navigate the Covid-19 pandemic, but have attracted the attention of cybercriminals in the process. A new report from Nozomi Networks Labs found that 2020 was a record-breaking year in terms of the weaponization of the supply chain, as well as the number, sophistication and destructive force of …
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Level up: The importance of security certification for startups when dealing with global enterprises
In today’s fast-paced world, the security threats facing large global enterprises are increasingly complex and ever-changing. As such, global enterprises with thousands of employees need to be stringent with their policies to protect their business and customers. In 2019, the UK’s Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport released statistics showing that almost half of UK businesses suffered a cybersecurity …
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Top five data security principles to follow when moving to the cloud
In the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, digital transformation has become essential for enterprises forced to adapt to new working conditions. Many organizations had already started their digital journey at the beginning of last year, but the global epidemic certainly accelerated things. In fact, research has shown 8 out of ten organizations fast-tracked their journey to digital transformation, compressing the …
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Almost all businesses suffer API-related security issues
In 2020, almost every enterprise suffered an API-related cybersecurity incident, according to a new report from Salt Security. Polling 200 enterprise security officials for the report, Salt found that 91 percent of them experienced API problems – in most cases, either vulnerabilities in production APIs (54 percent), or authentication issues (48 percent). Bots, scraping and DoS attacks were also listed. …
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Compliance and trust: The right perspective on data security and privacy
Data privacy no longer concerns only legal teams. It has become a cross-functional business imperative that everyone from legal, to marketing, to IT must understand and pay attention to. In the two plus years since the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) was introduced, we’ve seen companies continue to suffer data breaches, and non-compliance in legislations leading to massive fines. Together, …
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Businesses are facing security pressure like never before
More than four in five organizations have suffered data loss or a similar cybersecurity incident in the last 12 months, showing the mounting pressure businesses are facing. A new report from BT Security, based on a poll of more than 7,000 business leaders, employees and consumers all over the world, found that among the reasons for the increase in data …
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Mobile devices are now playing a more important security role
Defending the corporate network is no longer the number one priority for Chief Information Security Officers (CISO), a new report from automation platform Ivanti argues. Instead, CISOs are more focused on protecting their employees’ mobile devices. Polling 400 CISOs in EMEA for the report, Ivanti found that almost all (87 percent) see mobile devices as the focal point of their …
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Online fraud should be seen as a ‘national security issue’
Fraud in the UK has become an epidemic and is damaging businesses, the country’s image and the public purse, the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) has claimed. The think tank says the country loses approximately $260 billion each year to fraud, the crime UK citizens are most likely to fall victim to. Fraud against the public sector results in up …
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SMEs may need to rethink their security strategies
Cybercriminals rarely scale their attacks relative to the size of the company they are targeting, instead using the same tools and tactics regardless of who they’re up against. And according to a new report from Cynet, considering the fact that large enterprises have more resources to combat these threats, that means that small and medium-sized businesses (SMB) are at more …
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