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Network security management

• January 14, 2026 14 Jan'26

  Nozomi Networks opens APAC headquarters in Singapore

  Industrial cyber security firm Nozomi Networks has opened its Singapore headquarters, doubling its regional headcount, and pledging to remain vendor agnostic while targeting the manufacturing and utility sectors

• January 13, 2026 13 Jan'26

  Microsoft patches 112 CVEs on first Patch Tuesday of 2026

  January brings a larger-than-of-late Patch Tuesday update out of Redmond, but an uptick in disclosures is often expected at this time of year

• January 12, 2026 12 Jan'26

  Business leaders see AI risks and fraud outpacing ransomware, says WEF

  C-suite executives are more concerned with risks arising from AI vulnerabilities and cyber fraud than ransomware, according to the World Economic Forum

• January 12, 2026 12 Jan'26

  Intersec Dubai highlights why AI has become critical in the race against cyber attackers

  Cigna Healthcare’s Jean Wiles warns that healthcare security teams must act faster without sacrificing accuracy or compliance as threats driven by artificial intelligence scale

• January 12, 2026 12 Jan'26

  Singapore and Japan team up on quantum computing

  The two countries will work together to bridge the gap between quantum research and real-world commercialisation, marking Singapore’s first government-to-government pact dedicated to the technology

• December 29, 2025 29 Dec'25

  Top 10 cyber security stories of 2025

  AI dominated all tech conversations this year, but the concerns of cyber security professionals extend far beyond. From remote work to supply chains, quantum to identity, there were plenty of other topics for the industry to chew over in 2025.

• December 24, 2025 24 Dec'25

  Top 10 cyber crime stories of 2025

  In many regards, 2025 proved to be a relatively normal year for the cyber security world as threat actors and security pros continued their long-running cat-and-mouse game, but it was also a stand-out year that saw some of the largest cyber attacks ...

• December 18, 2025 18 Dec'25

  Fortinet vulnerabilities prompt pre-holiday warnings

  Analysts track exploitation of two vulnerabilities disclosed last week by Fortinet

• December 05, 2025 05 Dec'25

  Cloudflare fixes second outage in a month

  A change to web application firewall policies at Cloudflare caused problems across the internet less than three weeks after another major outage at the service, but no cyber attack is suspected

• December 03, 2025 03 Dec'25

  NCSC and BT block a billion dangerous clicks

  A protective service jointly developed by the NCSC and BT has disrupted over a billion potential cyber incidents by stopping members of the public from clicking through to dangerous websites

• December 03, 2025 03 Dec'25

  Post Office avoids £1m fine over botched website upgrade data breach

  The Information Commissioner’s Office considered fining the Post Office £1m for a 2024 data breach that let subpostmasters down again

• December 03, 2025 03 Dec'25

  Women in Cybersecurity Middle East marks five years of impact at Black Hat MEA

  As AI reshapes the regional cyber security landscape, diversity and skills development remain at the heart of building a resilient digital workforce

• December 03, 2025 03 Dec'25

  Black Hat MEA: Saudi Vision 2030 fuels surge in cyber security innovation

  Global cyber firms are racing to support the Kingdom’s mega-projects, but building trusted partnerships remains key, says Exabeam CEO Pete Harteveld

• December 01, 2025 01 Dec'25

  SASE, SD-WAN evolve as enterprises prioritise unified network security

  Research confirms trend that software-defined wide-area network implementations are increasingly tied to security, with the continual rise of cyber security incidents worldwide only accelerating this dynamic

• November 26, 2025 26 Nov'25

  US breach reinforces need to plug third-party security weaknesses

  Cyber breach at US financial sector tech provider highlights the risk of third-party vulnerabilities in finance ecosystems

• November 19, 2025 19 Nov'25

  Cloudflare contrite after worst outage since 2019

  Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince apologises for the firm’s worst outage in years and shares details of how a change to database system permissions caused a cascading effect that brought down some of the web’s biggest names

• November 19, 2025 19 Nov'25

  Cisco: Network architectures must be rebuilt for agentic AI

  Rising traffic volumes, AI-powered security threats and the move to agentic workflows will require organisations to modernise their network infrastructure

• November 18, 2025 18 Nov'25

  Microsoft unveils AI agents to automate security operations

  Tech giant bakes AI agents into its security products to democratise advanced security capabilities, automate repetitive tasks and provide context-aware intelligence for cyber defenders

• November 18, 2025 18 Nov'25

  Cloudflare outage disrupts public web services

  An outage at web traffic management specialist Cloudflare has caused disruption across the internet

• November 11, 2025 11 Nov'25

  Google: Don’t get distracted by AI, focus on real cyber threats

  While hackers are using artificial intelligence to optimise attacks, many of the most damaging breaches still rely on old-school methods, says a top security analyst from Google

• November 07, 2025 07 Nov'25

  City of London deploys SASE to future-proof public infrastructure

  Managed services provider to deliver an end-to-end networking connectivity offering, encompassing what is said to be a UK-first enterprise secure access service edge roll-out for public services

• November 07, 2025 07 Nov'25

  How Palo Alto Networks is leveraging AI

  Palo Alto Networks CIO Meerah Rajavel explains how the company is using AI to sieve through 90 billion security events a day, and why security and user experience are two sides of the same coin

• November 06, 2025 06 Nov'25

  Cisco beefs up secure AI enterprise network architecture

  IT and networking giant builds on enterprise network architecture with systems designed to simplify operations across campus and branch deployments such as network configuration

• November 04, 2025 04 Nov'25

  G42 and Cisco expand strategic partnership to drive AI innovation and infrastructure growth

  The UAE-based tech group and global networking giant will co-develop secure AI infrastructure and cyber security solutions to support high-performance computing and datacentre growth

• October 31, 2025 31 Oct'25

  Cyber agencies co-sign Exchange Server security guide

  US and allied cyber agencies team up to try to nudge users to pay more attention to securing Microsoft Exchange Server

• October 29, 2025 29 Oct'25

  Rapid7: Cyber defences stuck in the 1980s as threats mount

  The company’s chief product officer notes that many defence tactics are still stuck in the past, urging organisations to adopt AI-driven security platforms to improve threat detection and response

• October 28, 2025 28 Oct'25

  Cisco and Splunk plot multi-year data fabric journey

  Company leaders talk up their vision for the Cisco Data Fabric that will allow enterprises to gain insights about their IT infrastructure and security posture from machine data wherever it resides, from the network edge to the cloud

• October 27, 2025 27 Oct'25

  BDO Unibank taps Zscaler to secure cloud migration

  Zscaler’s deal with the Philippine bank comes as it is expanding its platform’s capabilities and footprint across Asia

• October 24, 2025 24 Oct'25

  UK ramps up ransomware fightback with supply chain security guide

  Multinational guidance, developed by the UK and Singapore, is designed to help organisations reinforce their supply chain against ransomware attacks

• October 22, 2025 22 Oct'25

  Inspired by the EU: Sweden eyes open standard for encrypted chat services

  What if your messaging and collaboration app could talk to all the others? Swedish government agencies are investigating the possibility

• October 21, 2025 21 Oct'25

  New cyber resilience centre to help SMEs fend off cyber threats

  Spearheaded by the Singapore Business Federation, the cyber resilience centre will equip SMEs in the city-state with cyber security capabilities to mitigate and recover from cyber attacks

• October 20, 2025 20 Oct'25

  France’s Atos eyes UK public sector with investment in secure UK infrastructure

  French IT services supplier invests in highly secure and accredited UK-based infrastructure

• October 16, 2025 16 Oct'25

  Securing the AI era: Huawei’s cyber security strategy for the GCC

  At Gitex 2025, Sultan Mahmood, chief security officer for Huawei Gulf North, outlined how the company supports GCC digital sovereignty, AI security, and enterprise cyber resilience

• October 16, 2025 16 Oct'25

  F5 admits nation-state actor stole BIG-IP source code

  F5 discloses that a nation-state actor has stolen source code and unpatched vulnerability data for its widely used BIG-IP products, raising supply chain security concerns across the industry

• October 07, 2025 07 Oct'25

  Nato chooses Oracle to secure battlefield communications

  Nato has chosen Oracle and Druid to secure private 5G networks for cyber defence, war gaming and research, using Oracle Cloud and edge technology

• October 01, 2025 01 Oct'25

  Cato extends zero trust access to SASE platform

  Capability launched for secure access service edge platform extends zero trust network access to unmanaged devices including personal, contractor and BYOD endpoints

• September 29, 2025 29 Sep'25

  UK and US urge Cisco users to ditch end-of-life security appliances

  An ongoing campaign of cyber attacks is targeting users of end-of-life Cisco security appliance kit

• September 26, 2025 26 Sep'25

  Over half of India-based companies suffer security breaches

  Business supply chains, which include Indian companies, are at risk of attack as more than half of suppliers were breached last year

• September 25, 2025 25 Sep'25

  Netherlands establishes cyber resilience network to strengthen public-private digital defence

  Network will connect organisations in a cyber crime defence initiative that goes way beyond information sharing

• September 19, 2025 19 Sep'25

  UK needs better defences to protect undersea internet cables from Russian sabotage

  A cross-party group of MPs and peers has called for the UK to step up defences to protect undersea cables from Russian sabotage risks

• September 10, 2025 10 Sep'25

  Splunk.conf: Cisco and Splunk expand agentic SOC vision

  The arrival of agentic AI in the security operations centre heralds an era of simplification for security professionals, Splunk claims

• September 03, 2025 03 Sep'25

  Fastly CEO plots course through AI and security

  Chief exec Kip Compton explains how Fastly’s unified platform is solving the web’s biggest challenges, from content scrapping by AI bots to distributed denial-of-service attacks

• August 26, 2025 26 Aug'25

  Three new Citrix NetScaler zero-days under active exploitation

  Citrix patches three new vulnerabilities in its NetScaler lines warning of active zero-day exploitation by an undisclosed threat actor

• August 26, 2025 26 Aug'25

  Okta makes AI identity play with Axiom acquisition

  Okta says Axiom Security’s technology will reinforce its own offerings in privileged access management, especially when it comes to the growing number of non-human identities

• August 21, 2025 21 Aug'25

  Moscow exploiting seven-year-old Cisco flaw, says FBI

  US authorities warn of an uptick in state-sponsored exploitation of a seven-year-old vulnerability in Cisco's operating system software

• August 20, 2025 20 Aug'25

  Warlock claims more victims as cyber attacks hit Colt and Orange

  Ransomware gang Warlock is adding more victims to its data leak site as the impact of a spreading wave of cyber attacks continues to be felt

• August 19, 2025 19 Aug'25

  Google spins up agentic SOC to speed up incident management

  Google Cloud elaborates on its vision for securing artificial intelligence unveiling new protections and capabilities across its product suite

• August 18, 2025 18 Aug'25

  L’Oréal to promote cyber resilience for Britain’s beauty salons

  L’Oréal UK and Ireland will work with law enforcement, cyber educators and students, and other large organisations to help thousands of small salons across the UK improve their cyber resilience practice

• August 14, 2025 14 Aug'25

  Professional services firms stuck in network security IT doom loop

  Survey reveals a widening disconnect in the professional services sector where, despite near-universal adoption of SaaS and cloud strategies, core network and security services are failing to keep up through the likes of SASE

• August 12, 2025 12 Aug'25

  Eight critical RCE flaws make Microsoft’s latest Patch Tuesday list

  Microsoft rolls out fixes for over 100 CVEs in its August Patch Tuesday update