Classified Ministry of Defence (MoD) documents have reportedly been discovered at a bus stop in southern England, raising concerns over national security. Nearly 50 pages were found by a member of the public behind the bus stop in Kent last Tuesday and shown to the BBC. They are said to contain printed emails and PowerPoint presentations from a senior official at the MoD. These include information on the decision-making process that saw a Type 45 destroyer,…

Former health secretary Matt Hancock is facing further pressure this week after Labour called for an investigation into his alleged use of personal email to conduct official government business. Hancock was forced to resign after CCTV footage leaked last week showed the married Tory MP in a romantic embrace with an advisor in his Whitehall office, breaking social distancing guidelines. Labour deputy leader, Angela Rayner, has now called on the cabinet secretary to launch an…

Digital transformation is at the heart of every industry. There are no longer any industries that are immune to the rapid adoption of this movement. When we think of the construction industry, we may think back to an image of ironworkers sitting over a city and enjoying a lunch break on a construction beam. However, rapid digitalization has transformed the construction industry and will continue to drive change and encourage innovation. The traditional ways of conducting business brings…

Over the years, there have been many news headlines, policy reports, white papers, and corporate newsletters that have highlighted cybersecurity workforce challenges; namely, the global shortage of cybersecurity professionals. Some of the challenges involved in achieving a more desirable cyber workforce include addressing the barriers to entry for marginalized individuals, gender disparities including the gender pay gap, and employer assertions of cyber workforce shortages due to unskilled, or low-skilled, individuals interested in working in the cybersecurity…

By Gary Fischer, VP Americas, XM Cyber Why is cyber-defense such an asymmetrical war? Hackers can launch a barrage of attacks on a single target and keep going until they find one overlooked weakness. Defenders, meanwhile, are often overwhelmed with alerts, unsure what to patch first and have little real visibility into the weaknesses of their ever-changing environments. In a battle between active adversaries who only need to land a single blow to win — and passive defenders…

By Jeremy Thomas, GitGuardian CEO When we started working on GitGuardian’s detection algorithm and got the first detection results, we could not believe it. We were facing a very counterintuitive reality. Secrets were actually hard coded in source code and available for all to see on public GitHub. And not just developers’ personal secrets but also corporate secrets ending up on developers’ personal repositories outside of corporate control. After scanning billions of commits each year…

By Christian Gitersonke, CEO, Health Insurance Answers The Problem Theft of Private Health Information (PHI) has been around almost as long as healthcare in this country. As technology has evolved and safeguards continue to be put in place to protect it, criminals have found ways to exploit the often times inadequate and sloppy protection of our personal health data. Regardless of the technological safeguards in place, one of the greatest exposures we see are employees…