Almost a third – 32% – of chief information security officers (CISOs) and decision-makers in the UK are considering quitting their current role, and a third of those think they might do so in the next six months, according to research published today by BlackFog, a supplier of anti-data exfiltration and ransomware protection services. […]

The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) provided support for 18 nationally significant ransomware attacks; removed 2.1 million cyber-enabled commodity campaigns; issued 34 million early warning alerts about attacks, compromises, vulnerabilities or open ports; and received 6.5 million reports of suspicious emails in the past 12 months – but in a year of “profound […]

The Data Lab in Scotland is ambitious to change lives, not merely to launch and promote the careers of people with the word “data” in their job titles. Brian Hills took over as CEO of the Scottish government-supported organisation from Gillian Docherty earlier this year. He has spent almost eight years at The Data […]

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In an era when consumers are increasingly conscious of their data privacy rights – a cultural shift that is changing the relationship between them and the organisations with which they interact – trust has become the new currency. As a result, brands are putting privacy high on their agenda in terms of the relationships […]

Ever since the UK left the European Union (EU), there has been talk of reforming the data protection regime currently in existence in the UK, inherited from the EU. GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) became an acronym that caused angst among many in the run-up to its implementation and has continued to be viewed […]

From healthcare and education to finance and policing, artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming increasingly embedded in people’s daily lives. Despite being posited by advocates as a dispassionate and fairer means of making decisions, free from the influence of human prejudice, the rapid development and deployment of AI has prompted concern over how the technology […]

The security community has been poring over an apparently critical vulnerability in the OpenSSL open source cryptography library, which is set to be patched on the afternoon of Tuesday 1 November, but about which few further details have yet been forthcoming. The team behind the OpenSSL project – which underlies the majority of encryption […]

Gartner is warning that inflationary pressure could negatively affect its worldwide spending on public cloud services forecast, which presently suggests spending in this area is set to grow by more than 20% in 2023. The IT market watcher said global end-user spending on public cloud services is set to hit close to $600bn next […]

An officer at the French Gendarmerie’s cyber space command has claimed on social media that a decision by the French Supreme Court over the lawfulness of messages hacked by the police from an encrypted phone network has been “hyped” by defence lawyers. In an unusual public intervention, Matthieu Audibert, a lawyer and officer of […]