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IT risk management

• April 25, 2019 25 Apr'19

  UK up for cyber challenge but work to be done, says minister

  Lidington says National Cyber Security Strategy has “revolutionised the UK’s fight against cyber threats”

• April 25, 2019 25 Apr'19

  Cabinet Office addresses 5G security issue

  Cabinet Office uses NCSC conference to lay out government’s approach to the security of 5G networks, as controversy grows around using equipment from Chinese supplier Huawei

• April 25, 2019 25 Apr'19

  NCSC looks to industry to scale Active Cyber Defence

  The national cyber security agency is calling on wider government organisations as well as industry to help scale automated cyber attack blocking systems country-wide

• April 24, 2019 24 Apr'19

  NCSC to scale up intelligence sharing, says GCHQ director

  The GCHQ director has outlined the agency’s cyber security mission in the third decade of the internet age at CyberUK, promising to scale up the sharing of declassified cyber intelligence with industry

• April 24, 2019 24 Apr'19

  PM May approves Huawei for use in 5G networks despite opposition

  The UK’s National Security Council has approved the use of Huawei’s networking equipment in parts of the country’s 5G mobile networks in spite of widespread opposition

• April 23, 2019 23 Apr'19

  Casual collaboration comms pose security risk, survey shows

  UK employees have a worryingly casual attitude to workplace communications, underling the need for employers to take steps to counter related cyber attack vulnerabilities

• April 23, 2019 23 Apr'19

  APAC set for blockchain boom

  Led by China, spending on blockchain technology in Asia-Pacific excluding Japan will surpass $2bn by 2022

• April 18, 2019 18 Apr'19

  State-sponsored hackers are hijacking DNS, researchers warn

  A DNS-hijacking campaign targeting the Middle East and Africa may lead to actors more broadly attacking the global DNS system

• April 17, 2019 17 Apr'19

  Nearly a quarter of tech firms do not security check products

  Nearly a quarter of organisations polled do not run security checks on products, and nearly a third admitted to shipping products with known security vulnerabilities, a survey shows

• April 17, 2019 17 Apr'19

  Wipro admits to potential breach to employee accounts by phishing attack

  Indian IT services company Wipro is investigating a phishing attack, which hit some staff email accounts and launched attacks on customer environments

• April 16, 2019 16 Apr'19

  Singtel and NUS claim quantum breakthrough

  Researchers from Singtel and the National University of Singapore have succeeded in coordinating the paths of photons across a fibre network to drive wider adoption of quantum key distribution

• April 16, 2019 16 Apr'19

  Huawei cyber security chief John Suffolk: It’s not our culture to be aggressive

  John Suffolk, global cyber security and privacy officer at China-based telecoms equipment supplier Huawei, tells Huawei Analyst Summit growth is the best answer to US criticism

• April 16, 2019 16 Apr'19

  Energy industry needs to up cyber defences, warns report 

  Cyber threat actors are advanced and persistent, but firms in the energy industry are using outdated systems and technology to save money, putting them at risk of cyber attacks, warns F-Secure report

• April 15, 2019 15 Apr'19

  How Palo Alto Networks fends off its cyber adversaries

  Palo Alto Networks CIO Naveen Zutshi talks up the company’s approach in keeping threat actors at bay

• April 15, 2019 15 Apr'19

  Facebook takes extraordinary legal steps to contain document leak

  Facebook targets journalists and news organisations for computer searches