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Business continuity planning

• November 13, 2019 13 Nov'19

  Business leaders fibbing to cover up lax security posture

  Nominet study finds evidence that many businesses tout the robustness of their security posture as a selling point even though their security teams lack confidence in themselves

• November 13, 2019 13 Nov'19

  Attack on Labour shows need for DDoS defence but should alarm few

  After being hit by two DDoS attacks in the space of 24 hours, many commentators are convinced the UK’s Labour Party is the victim of foreign interference in the General Election campaign. It probably isn’t

• November 12, 2019 12 Nov'19

  Nordic SMEs lack the money needed for cyber security

  Businesses and governments in Denmark and Norway are working together to address a cyber security shortfall for SMEs in each country

• November 06, 2019 06 Nov'19

  Global security workforce must more than double to meet demand

  There are about 2.8 million cyber security professionals working today, and the world needs four million more

• October 29, 2019 29 Oct'19

  NordVPN enlists ethical hackers, launches bug bounty programme

  Breached consumer VPN supplier details steps it is taking to shore up its cyber security posture after an unknown actor gained access to one of its servers

• October 23, 2019 23 Oct'19

  Take responsibility for cyber security basics, urges NCSC CEO

  At the launch of its third annual review, NCSC head Ciaran Martin appealed for individuals and businesses to address the fundamentals of cyber security hygiene to help lighten the load

• September 27, 2019 27 Sep'19

  GDPR compliance: Whose job is it and is it really possible?

  Nobody seems to have a good handle on business GDPR compliance, how many businesses are compliant, or indeed what compliance really is, but according to security experts, it very much depends on who you talk to

• September 26, 2019 26 Sep'19

  Overinvestment breeds overconfidence among security pros

  CISOs have made an abundance of security investments in multiple suppliers, but this might not be the right approach

• September 12, 2019 12 Sep'19

  Government seeks views on post-Brexit security alignment

  The government has called for views on its proposals to align the UK’s post-Brexit cyber security policy to that of the European Union

• August 29, 2019 29 Aug'19

  UK firms getting on top of IT downtime costs

  Despite data breach headlines, UK firms are generally improving in their data protection, business continuity, cyber preparedness and understanding of downtime costs, study shows

• August 14, 2019 14 Aug'19

  DCMS funding aims to increase diversity in cyber sector

  A funding round has been announced as part of the Cyber Skills Immediate Impact Fund (CSIIF) with aims of encouraging more diverse talent into the UK’s cyber security sector

• August 14, 2019 14 Aug'19

  Digital domain identified as major security threat by Norway’s intelligence service

  Norway's intelligence services has revealed the extent of the threat posed to the country by cyber attacks

• August 08, 2019 08 Aug'19

  Ransomware a continued threat to business, report warns

  Businesses are increasingly becoming the most popular targets for ransomware, which remains a top cyber threat around the world, especially in the US, a report reveals

• August 06, 2019 06 Aug'19

  Most UK firms lack confidence in disaster recovery

  Only a third of UK firms are confident in their ability to recover from cyber attacks and other disasters, with business continuity still relatively low on the agenda, a study reveals

• August 05, 2019 05 Aug'19

  DDoS on the rise, warns Kaspersky

  Security researchers at Kaspersky are among those warning business that, more than ever, mitigation of distributed denial of service attacks needs to be a key element of cyber defence strategies