Splinternet: Walled gardens on the path to global cybersecurity
On 19 November, China held a conference celebrating its control over online content via a 'splinternet'. This event acted as a reminder of the increasing extent to which the internet...
Cybersecurity
How criminals are getting creative to exploit ‘a golden age of vulnerability’
From a targeted attack on the European Medicines Agency which stole and illegally released data...
CTO Talk: Q&A with Bugcrowd’s Casey Ellis
Casey Ellis is the CTO, chairman and founder of Bugcrowd, the cybersecurity startup that crowdsources white hat security researchers to...
Cybereason CEO on IPO and the “fall of Microsoft”
The CEO of Cybereason has said an IPO is “the next step” for the US cybersecurity company but is unlikely...
AI ain’t all that: British businesses prioritise cybersecurity and cloud infrastructure
Data is the new oil, or so it's said, and every business wants a piece of it. But only a...
Cyber insurers running scared: Ransomware “as profitable as cocaine”
Cyber insurance firms are moving to cap clients' cover and hike their premiums following a surge of ransomware attacks during the pandemic. While insurers have enjoyed skyrocketing demand for cyber…
Filings buzz in the tech sector: 21% increase in cybersecurity mentions since Q2 of 2020
Mentions of cybersecurity within the filings of companies in the tech sector rose 13% between the first and second quarters of 2021. In total, the frequency of sentences related to…
Is the future of authentication passwordless?
Passwords – we struggle to remember them but we can’t live without them. Or can we? A growing movement towards passwordless authentication – in which biometrics such as fingerprints or…
Asia-Pacific is seeing a hiring boom in tech industry cybersecurity roles
Asia-Pacific was the fastest growing region for cybersecurity hiring among tech industry companies in the three months ending September. The number of roles in Asia-Pacific made up 17.8% of total…
CTO Talk: Q&A with Appgate’s Kurt Glazemakers
Kurt Glazemakers is the CTO of Appgate, a cybersecurity company that focuses on secure access solutions Founded in 2005, Appgate's products and services include zero trust access for software-defined perimeter,…
Cold Wars in the AI Summer: Automation is heating up cyber defence
The relationship between artificial intelligence (AI) and defence is a longstanding one. The first “AI winter” of the 1970s, when interest in the subject evaporated and research work all but…
