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IT risk management

  • May 03, 2024 03 May'24

    Why IAM is central to cyber security

    BeyondTrust’s chief security strategist talks up the importance of identity and access management, and the role of cyber insurance in driving security improvements

  • May 02, 2024 02 May'24

    NCSC updates warning over hacktivist threat to CNI

    The NCSC and CISA have warned about the evolving threat from Russia-backed hacktivist threat actors targeting critical national infrastructure, after a number of American utilities were attacked

  • May 02, 2024 02 May'24

    BBC instructs lawyers over allegations of police surveillance of journalist

    Lawyers for the BBC have written to the Investigatory Powers Tribunal over allegations that the Police Service of Northern Ireland spied on investigative journalist Vincent Kearney

  • May 02, 2024 02 May'24

    How Okta is fending off identity-based attacks

    Okta has been bolstering the security of its own infrastructure and building new tools to scan customer environments for vulnerable identities, among other efforts to fend off identity-based attacks

  • May 01, 2024 01 May'24

    EMEA CISOs must address human factors behind cyber incidents

    The 17th annual Verizon report on data breaches makes for sobering reading for security pros, urging them to do more to address the human factors involved in cyber incidents, and highlighting ongoing issues with zero-day patching

  • May 01, 2024 01 May'24

    Autonomous weapons reduce moral agency and devalue human life

    Military technology experts gathered in Vienna have warned about the detrimental psychological effects of AI-powered weapons, arguing that implementing systems of algorithmic-enabled killing dehumanises both the user and the target

  • April 30, 2024 30 Apr'24

    Global majority united on multilateral regulation of AI weapons

    Foreign ministers and civil society representatives say that multilateralism is key to controlling the proliferation and use of AI-powered autonomous weapons, but that a small number of powerful countries are holding back progress

  • April 30, 2024 30 Apr'24

    Bad bot traffic in Australia grew 23% in 2023

    Traffic from bad bots that perform malicious tasks accounted for 30.2% of Australia’s internet traffic in 2023

  • April 29, 2024 29 Apr'24

    UK’s long-awaited device security law kicks in

    The Product Security and Telecommunications Infrastructure Act has become law across the UK, enforcing basic cyber security standards across connected products sold to the public

  • April 25, 2024 25 Apr'24

    Zero trust is a strategy, not a technology

    Zero-trust security should be seen as a strategy to protect high-value assets and is not tied to a specific technology or product, says the model’s creator John Kindervag