The National Cyber Security Strategy has revolutionised the UK’s fight against Cyber threats as an ambitious, deliberately interventionist programme of action. During the last three years, the UK has put in place many of the building blocks to strengthen Cyber Security and resilience, backed by…
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New Trustwave Report Underscores Progressing Global Cybersecurity Threats
Comprehensive Analysis of Data Breach Investigations, Internal Threat Intelligence and Security-Based Telemetry Reveals Cybercriminals are Becoming More Methodical and Adaptive Trustwave released the 2019 Trustwave Global Security Report, which reveals the top security threats, breaches by industry and cybercrime trends from 2018. The report is based…
US Companies Most Confident Among Four Global Regions in Readiness To Face Data-Privacy Regulations.
Despite lack of strong federal laws, US firms appear more prepared than those in Europe, China and South-east Asia to deal with potentially stricter rules around consumer-data gathering and use. This comes amid the increasing importance of data privacy to organisations today—it will be even more important in future, according to…
Digital banking: Brave New world or House of Cards?
Financial companies are increasingly turning to advanced technology to bolster their key services. Automated fund management is becoming a daily reality for many retail investors as advanced financial technology becomes miniaturised – companies like Nutmeg have built their business model on mobile-based automatic investment. With that shift comes a heavy…
Telecom Liechtenstein (FL1) Protects Geneva Airport Against Electronic Eavesdropping
In order to step up its precautions against cyberattacks and to provide its users with the best possible security for their mobile communications, Geneva Airport shall be secured against the electronic eavesdropping of mobile devices from now by FL1 from its base in Liechtenstein. Specifically, so-called IMSI catchers (fake mobile…
Strategic Investment in the Cybersecurity Company Sepio Systems
Energias de Portugal, which ranks among Europe’s major electricity operators, and is one of Portugal’s largest business groups has completed a strategic investment in the Israel- and US-based cybersecurity company Sepio Systems. EDP is a vertically integrated utility company that has electricity, gas and…