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Securing Industry 4.0
To meet their fullest potential, Industry 4.0 programmes must now apply holistic cyber-savvy thinking to all aspects of the industrial processes to be digitally transformed.
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Top managers being increasingly and proactively targeted by social breaches – correlating to a rise of social-engineering attacks with ruthless financial motivation.
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As more office appliances become connected to the Internet of Things (IoT), are we creating potential entry points for future cyber threats to sneak into the workplace? By Corey Nachreiner at WatchGuard Technologies.
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Cyber security’s debt to Alan Turing
The cutting-edge AI-based cyber security systems that will protect business systems and critical national infrastructure in the coming decades has its roots in the pioneering work of Alan Turing: and his belief that diversity of thought process be valued as part of team-based problem-solving is one that resonates still. By Professor Mark Briers & Dr Benjamin Sach, The Alan Turing Institute.
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Cyber insurance: policy decisions
If you want to be insured against losses from cyber attacks, ensure that your organisation can pass an insurer’s security ‘fitness tests’.
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Now Artificial Intelligence can be bolted on to cyber security: many businesses believe it will boost resilience – but can it also improve threat insight when it comes to addressing those insider threats?
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Just how safe is cloud security?
Many organisations not only feel more secure about migrating all of their sensitive data into cloud-based services: some, in fact, believe it’s the safest place.
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Senior-level executives at some of the UK’s biggest companies still do not fully understand the potential impact of a cyber attack according to a report from the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport.
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Chief Information Security Officers – CISOs – surveyed by Nominet cope with high levels of stress that are causing nearly 20% of those polled to turn to medication or alcohol to deal with job pressures. The survey of 408 CISCOs in the UK and US found 91% report that they suffer ‘moderate’ or ‘high stress’, […]
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Commercial organisations could incur $5.2trn in additional costs and lost revenue by 2024 due to cyber attacks, as dependency on complex digitally-enabled business models outpaces the ability to introduce adequate safeguards that protect critical assets.
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More than 59,000 data breach notifications have been reported across the European Economic Area by public and private organisations since the General Data Protection Regulation – GDPR – came into force back on 25th May 2018.
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Senior executives are still often the ‘weakest link’ in the corporate cyber security chain and encourage cyber criminals to target their vulnerabilities to commit serious data breaches. A new report from outsourced infrastructure and data storage specialist The Bunker reveals many senior executives ignore the threat of hackers and cyber criminals, and often conceitedly feel that security policies in their organisations ‘do not apply to their unique position’.