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Chinese Whispers: Combating the growing global cyber threat

July 18, 2018

Vince Warrington, founder of cyber security solutions specialist Protective Intelligence, explains the measures the defence supply chain must take to combat the growing global threat from state-backed malicious cyber actors.  You are unlikely to have ever heard of the Sea Dragon project, an initiative that came out of a Pentagon programme to adapt existing US military technologies to new applications, and is believed to involve ...

Defending the Digital World

July 4, 2018

How do we defend our future selves? It’s a tough question, especially when key national infrastructure and supply chains are increasingly in the private sector and evolving quickly. Many businesses simply aren’t clear what they will be defending in the future, and from whom. James Hatch, Director of Cyber Security at BAE Systems Applied Intelligence, explains ...

Lack of skilled cyber security workers is putting businesses at risk

Homeland June 27, 2018

New research carried out by BAE Systems has revealed that half of mid-sized businesses cite a lack of skilled staff as a top security monitoring concern as the skills gap continues to challenge organisations, large and small. The study commissioned by the Company and conducted via Spiceworks, surveyed 600 IT decision-makers ...

Artificial intelligence instrumental in exposing campaign of cyber attacks

Land June 25, 2018

Artificial intelligence has helped to expose a campaign of cyber attacks carried out by the so-called Thrip group. Symantec’s Targeted Attack Analytics (TAA) technology employed advanced artificial intelligence (AI) to uncover the campaign, which targeted satellite communications, telecoms, geospatial imaging, and defence specialists in the United States and Southeast Asia. The AI ...