Company leaders should be as close to their chief information security officers (CISOs) as their general counsel or finance directors, the head of the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) will argue today. In her first public speaking engagement, NCSC CEO Lindy Cameron, will tell a virtual audience at Queen’s College Belfast this morning that security must be given more attention in the boardroom. “Cybersecurity is still not taken as seriously as it should be, and simply…

The pressures of remote working and caregiving during the pandemic have taken a significant psychological toll on UK employees, leading to risky behavior online which could expose their employer to cyber-threats, according to Forcepoint. The security vendor polled 1000 UK adults to better understand how life under lockdown is affecting the corporate cybersecurity posture. Over half (52%) of respondents reported increased personal pressure over the past year, with younger employees more likely to suffer than…

Facebook has fixed two critical vulnerabilities in its popular WordPress plugin which could have been exploited to enable full site takeover, according to Wordfence. The security company revealed yesterday that it disclosed the bugs to the social network on December 22 last year and January 27 2021. Patches for each were released on January 6 and February 7 2021, respectively. The vulnerabilities affected the plugin formerly known as Official Facebook Pixel, which is said to be…

Over the past 12 months we have seen further growth within the cloud, as many organisations scale or create new digital services in response to the coronavirus pandemic. Improved speed and agility has allowed businesses to pivot where traditional siloed infrastructure may have caused them to stall. As the usage of cloud services expands, standardising and consolidating cloud tooling becomes important for financial management, operational governance, and security and compliance. Visibility into distributed system architectures…

Services and digital product provider Kroll has announced the acquisition of award-winning UK cybersecurity firm Redscan. The deal will see Kroll, which specializes in governance, risk and transparency, extend its Kroll Responder capabilities through the addition of Redscan and its extended detection and response (XDR) enabled security operations center (SOC) platform. Redscan will join Kroll under the leadership of Andrew Beckett, managing director and head of the EMEA cyber-risk practice and Marc Brawner, managing director and…

The COVID-19 pandemic has had a dramatic impact on how public sector organizations operate. Leaders in state and local government and education institutions are on the path to enable their organizations to respond, recover and accelerate innovation at an unforeseen pace. Based on lessons learned in the pandemic, a new 2020 IDC study predicts that most organizations will put a mechanism in place to accelerate their shift to cloud-centric digital infrastructure twice as fast as…