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Cloud security

• April 19, 2018 19 Apr'18

  CyLon continues to drive cyber security innovation with next accelerator cohort

  CyLon has selected the next group of innovative cyber security startups for its seventh London accelerator programme

• April 13, 2018 13 Apr'18

  Companies must take a share of cloud security responsibility

  The cloud is seen as highly secure and more and more critical data is being held in public clouds, but organisations need to adapt their internal security processes

• April 11, 2018 11 Apr'18

  Government to set up £13.5m cyber security centre

  Located at the 2012 Olympic Park, the London Cyber Innovation Centre could create up to 2,000 jobs in cyber security

• April 06, 2018 06 Apr'18

  Business increases use of encryption in the cloud

  The use of encryption has seen double-digit growth in the past year due to a number of security-related drivers, a study has revealed

• April 04, 2018 04 Apr'18

  Ransomware puts pressure on incident response

  Cyber attackers switched focus to ransomware attacks in 2017 putting pressure on incident response, while human error was responsible for two-thirds of compromised records, a study shows

• March 28, 2018 28 Mar'18

  AWS ups ante on cloud services for Australian government

  Cloud supplier AWS says government agencies can now assess the prospect of running protected workloads, following an independent cloud security assessment

• March 27, 2018 27 Mar'18

  UK organisations urged to develop cyber security skills

  Managed cloud computing firm Rackspace is calling on UK organisations to do more to develop cyber security skills in the light of research into expertise in cloud security

• March 26, 2018 26 Mar'18

  Dutch SMEs’ cyber security is insufficient

  Nowhere in the Netherlands is digitisation as big as it is in small and medium-sized enterprises, but the sector still has a lot to do in terms of cyber security

• March 23, 2018 23 Mar'18

  Cloud key to cyber defence, says Palo Alto Networks

  Organisations need to make sense of security intelligence and act on it faster to get ahead of attackers, and cloud-based security is one way of making that possible, according to Palo Alto Networks

• March 16, 2018 16 Mar'18

  IT contractors not a risk despite Snowden leaks, GCHQ tells court

  The government argues in the Investigatory Powers Tribunal that contractors with systems administration rights to computers holding GCHQ’s most sensitive intelligence pose no more of a security risk than the agency’s employees

• March 13, 2018 13 Mar'18

  Government ‘unlawfully delegated’ bulk data powers to GCHQ, court hears

  Privacy International urges Britain’s most secret court, the Investigatory Powers Tribunal, to rule that the government illegally collected surveillance data from internet and phone companies until at least September 2017

• March 08, 2018 08 Mar'18

  Mac malware more than doubled in 2017

  Malware targeting Apple Mac computers more than doubled from 2016 to 2017, according to security firm Malwarebytes

• March 07, 2018 07 Mar'18

  Businesses under pressure to allow easier access to cloud

  Businesses are under pressure from employees to use consumer-focused authentication methods for cloud applications, but that could have both positive and negative security implications, warns Gemalto

• March 07, 2018 07 Mar'18

  Developed APAC countries well-poised for the cloud

  With strong policies in data protection and cyber security, Japan, Australia and Singapore are among countries that are most prepared to reap the benefits of the cloud

• February 28, 2018 28 Feb'18

  Firms failing to learn from cyber attacks

  Organisations are failing to learn from cyber attacks, and lax security practices are leaving organisations worldwide open to damaging cyber attacks, a report reveals