Cybersecurity is an important issue for IT and business professionals, as cyber attacks continue to plague governments, businesses and other organizations. There are many different types of cyber attacks that organizations fall victim to, including ransomware, phishing, password attacks and DNS spoofing. And knowing how to minimize these attacks is a must. If you […]
Rising energy costs and customers looking to cut costs are both cited as reasons why Amazon Web Services (AWS) recorded its weakest revenue growth rate to-date during the three months to 30 September 2022. The public cloud giant’s third-quarter results show AWS generated $20.5bn in revenue during this period, which is up 27.5% on […]
Meta Platforms may have posted what analysts are calling a particularly disappointing third quarter, with revenues falling 4% to only just under $28bn. But the company’s future is still very clearly building the metaverse to an ecosystem with a billion users by 2030, and addressing this community is not only the ambition of Mark […]
With the ongoing growth in the adoption of containers, we looked at what CISOs needed to do to ensure they were secure in a Security Think Tank column for Computer Weekly in June 2020. Over the past two years, containerisation has continued to spread significantly – Gartner predicted in 2020 that it would be […]
The government has awarded over £1m in grants to 17 UK organisations piloting new techniques to boost digital and media literacy among people deemed more at risk of experiencing online abuse or being tricked into believing falsehoods such as vaccine disinformation, deepfake videos, or hostile propaganda. The awards are part of the government’s online […]
Ian Levy, the longstanding technical director of the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) and Hitchhikers’ Guide to the Galaxy fan, is to step down from his post after a 22-year career in the intelligence services. A graduate of the University of Warwick, from where he also holds a PhD in computer science, Levy […]
IT security professionals rely heavily on telemetry and data logs to identify, tackle and prevent cyber attacks. But the challenge is that there isn’t a simple way for security teams to make sense of large datasets. Typically, they would use a plethora of technologies and software to collect and analyse data. However, this approach […]
The Department for Health and Social Care (DHSC) has kicked off the recruitment process for a national chief information security officer (CISO) to sit within the Digital Policy Unit (DPU) of NHS England’s (NHSE’s) Transformation Directorate. The Leeds-based post comes with a salary of £150,000, which is £5,000 above the national median for such […]
Professional social network LinkedIn has announced plans to roll out a series of enhancements to its platform to protect its community from inauthentic, or even malicious, profiles and activity. Its objective is to help users make more informed decisions about those they choose to interact with when accepting connection requests, learning more about business […]
Santander has urged organisations across the financial sector to come together to tackle the scourge of so-called authorised push payment (APP) fraud, calling for the imposition of consistent rules to prevent the practice, and new measures that could give potential victims a fighting change to “break the spell” of scammers. In the whitepaper Tackling […]