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FACE TO FACE WITH… BEN RUSSELL, NCA
At the Cyber Crime Unit in the National Crime Agency, Ben Russell leads the UK’s fightback against the digital criminal adversaries. By James Hayes.
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The executive and the IT security teams must do more to reduce the communications gap between them: it starts with recognition of the value each ally brings to the defence campaign. By Jens Monrad, Head of Intelligence EMEA, FireEye.
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Ransomware returns!
Reports of the demise of ransomware have been grossly exaggerated: businesses have to redouble their defences as new variants become ever more devious. By James Hayes.
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Study reveals scale of conflict business leaders are subjected to when technology disruption hits their business.
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Build a ‘human firewall’
With training that turns threat awareness into a learning game, organisations can transform their employees into a first line of defence against routine cyber attacks, explains Louise Pasterfield at Sponge.
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Email-based social engineering attacks on whole workforce are ‘rising concern for organisations’ because they’re among most difficult to control, reports Mimecast cyber security survey.
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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?