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UK joins international allies in issuing cyber defence advice for organisations

Homeland September 21, 2020

The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has recently released guidance with international allies aimed at helping organisations stay safe from malicious cyber actors. The joint cyber security advisory Technical Approaches to Uncovering and Remediating Malicious Activity has been published in conjunction with the US’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the Australian ...

What is Defence in Depth?

December 23, 2019

The term ‘Defence in depth’ is a cyber security buzz word adopted from a military term, but understanding what it means and using it could be the best option in the battle against hackers, advises Katherine Abercrombie, security consultant at Context Information Security.   Defence in depth is one of many marketing terms ...

Cyber security’s big threat? Finding the talent

Homeland December 17, 2019

Writing for Defence Online, Melanie Jones, Product Director for cyber security portfolios at Global Knowledge looks at the threat posed by cyber skills shortage. Recent cyber security surveys from Cybersecurity Insiders and IBM agree that the main security-related concerns for businesses are data loss and leakage, and the effect they have on an organisation’s bottom line and reputation.  The organisations that ...

Keeping data secure in the oil and gas industry 

November 29, 2019

Writing for Defence Online, Jerry Askar, Managing Director Middle East, Levant & Africa, Certes Networks, examines the importance of protecting the data networks of the utilities sector. As automation continues to evolve, the utilities sector is finding that encryption of their network data is a critical to safeguard against cyber-attacks.  And, as organisations ...