Cyber Security Roundup for February 2020

Cyber Security Roundup for February 2020

A roundup of UK focused cyber and information security news stories, blog posts, reports and threat intelligence from the previous calendar month, January 2020.After years of dither and delay the UK government ...
12 days of Christmas Security Predictions:  What lies ahead in 2020

12 days of Christmas Security Predictions: What lies ahead in 2020

Marked by a shortage of cyber security talent and attackers willing to exploit any vulnerability to achieve their aims, this year emphasised the need for organisations to invest in security and understand ...
How Brexit Impacts the Future of Europe’s Cybersecurity Posture

How Brexit Impacts the Future of Europe’s Cybersecurity Posture

The British parliament has been unable to agree the exit package from the European Union. With the possibility of a “no deal” departure looming, EU leaders have granted a six-month extension to ...

How Will Brexit Affect Cybersecurity for UK Organizations?

As a vendor, Tripwire gets asked a lot of questions from customers and potential clients about how developments in the wider world might affect digital security. One of those forces that’s on ...
The UK Government Huawei Dilemma and the Brexit Factor

The UK Government Huawei Dilemma and the Brexit Factor

In the last couple of days, Google announced it will be putting restrictions on Huawei’s access to its Android operating system, massively threatening Huawei's smartphone market. Meanwhile, UK based chip designer ARM ...

International Women’s Day: Brexit, Skills-Gap and #BalanceforBetter in the Cybersecurity Industry

This year’s International Women’s Day 2019 theme of #BalanceforBetter is a positive call-to-action to drive gender balance across the world. This year’s campaign states that “the race is on” for a gender-balanced ...
Is Huawei a Threat to UK National Security?

Is Huawei a Threat to UK National Security?

On 19th July 2018 the UK government, through the GCHQ backed Huawei Cyber Security Evaluation Centre, gave “limited assurance” that Huawei poses no threat to UK National Security. Since then the UK, ...
Cyber Security Roundup for December 2018

Cyber Security Roundup for December 2018

The final Cyber Security Roundup of 2018 concludes reports of major data breaches, serious software vulnerabilities and evolving cyber threats, so pretty much like the previous 11 months of the year.5.3 millions ...
Deal, No Deal: The State of U.K. Cybersecurity Post-Brexit

Deal, No Deal: The State of U.K. Cybersecurity Post-Brexit

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A topic inescapably in the minds of us Brits is what type of relationship will the U.K. maintain with the EU post our departure, which in one transitional form or another is ...
UK at growing risk of major cyber incidents, terrorist attacks, research suggests

UK at growing risk of major cyber incidents, terrorist attacks, research suggests

New data from a report on the UK threat landscape indicates the country’s emergency services are at risk of a major cyber-attack, which could open the door to terrorist attacks as well ...