Author: Asad Yaseen

The vast majority (86%) of critical national infrastructure (CNI) organizations in the UK have experienced cyber-attacks on their operational technology (OT) and industrial control systems (ICS) in the past 12 months, according to a new study by Bridewell Consulting. Worryingly, more than nine in 10 (93%) of those that experienced attacks in this period admitted that at least one was successful. The survey of 250 UK IT decision makers in the aviation, chemical, energy, transport…

With the shift to remote learning, schools are facing greater security risks and smaller financial margins, says BlueVoyant. Image: Getty Images/iStockphoto The coronavirus pandemic and lockdown have affected many individuals and organizations around the world. But one sector that’s been hit hard is higher learning. As education has moved from in-classroom teaching to remote learning, colleges and universities have had to set up technologies that open the door to greater security risks. Further, many schools…

Tenable®, Inc. the Cyber Exposure company, today launched Tenable.ep, the industry’s first, all-in-one, risk-based vulnerability management platform designed to scale as dynamic compute requirements change. Tenable.ep combines the company’s industry-leading products — Tenable.io® Vulnerability Management, Tenable.io Web Application Scanning, Tenable.io Container Security and Tenable Lumin – into one platform, enabling customers to see all of their assets and vulnerabilities in a single dashboard alongside key threat, exploit and prioritization metrics. Moreover, Tenable.ep’s single, flexible asset-based…

Cybersecurity is increasingly becoming the responsibility of in-house legal departments within organizations. That’s according to a survey from the Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC), which discovered that this year, for the first time, cybersecurity has overtaken compliance as the most important issue facing businesses, as ranked by company chief legal officers (CLOs). ACC surveyed almost 1000 global CLOs from 21 industries, with just under half stating that responsibility for cybersecurity and data privacy within their…