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Following the announcement yesterday, Thursday 16th of May, about how E-Skills UK has teamed up with organisations to launch cyber security apprenticeships, Etienne Greeff, managing director SecureData comments about the importance of these apprenticeships for UK businesses. “Cybercrime is a very serious issue and can cause UK businesses to lose thousands of pounds each day. The announcement [...]

New Book from ISACA and Ernst & Young LLP Offers How-to Guidance on Combating Advanced Attacks The advanced persistent threat (APT) is waging an all-out attack on enterprises’ intellectual property. Yet most companies continue to try to protect themselves using approaches that are years out of date. That is one of the conclusions in Responding [...]

Royal Holloway, University of London and Oxford University are to develop university research centres to train ‘high-level cyber security experts’. The move, which will be funded with £7.5m in government and research council funding, is part of the UK’s national cyber security programme, and the government’s ongoing efforts to combat the growing cyber threat facing [...]

Recently Check Point has launched its new 600 Appliances, delivering powerful security to protect small businesses against the latest cyber attacks, including viruses, spam, malicious Websites, among others. The 600 Appliances provide an affordable, all-in-one security solution with market leading performance of 1.5 Gbps of firewall throughput, starting at $399. Cyber security is a growing [...]

Taking place in London on 26th-27th June at National Hall Olympia, the 5th Annual Cloud World Forum – www.cloudwf.com – will bring you together with fellow IT decision-makers, giving you the opportunity to do business and learn about the leading trends and topics in the cloud space. Our seminar agenda will be held across 8 [...]

Tuesday 23rd April Opening Keynote: The UK Cyber Security Strategy: Opportunities and challenges for the Cyber Security Sector 10:00 – 10:25 Chloe Smith, Minister for Political and Constitutional Reform, Cabinet Office will give the opening keynote on UK Cyber Security Strategy and the opportunities and challenges for the Cyber Security Sector. Panel discussion: Risk: Fostering [...]

The new solution prevents stealth malware code execution in UEFI-enabled computers   Kaspersky Lab has announced the release of its groundbreaking new product, Kaspersky Anti-Virus for UEFI (KUEFI), an anti-malware solution which can protect the user’s PC before the operating system even starts loading.   UEFI, or “Unified Extensible Firmware Interface”, has been developed by [...]

Date: 18/04/2013 to 19/04/2013 Venue: Charlemagne building, Brussels, Belgium EEMA, Trust in Digital Lifeand the CSP EU FORUM today announce the programme for the Trust in the Digital World and the Cyber Security & Privacy (CSP) EU Forum 2013. Taking place in in Brussels, Belgium, on 18th and 19th April 2013, this independent conference will [...]

FireEye Advanced Threat Report Details Evolving Tactics and Threat Infiltration of Attacks Targeting Enterprises  FireEye, Inc., the leader in stopping today’s new breed of cyber attacks, has announced the release of its 2H 2012 Advanced Threat Report.  The report shows that malware activity has become so pervasive that organisations experience a malicious email file attachment [...]

In light of the research by FireEye suggesting that businesses are hit by malware every three minutes, David Harley provides some further insight and offers his advice on what else businesses can do to protect themselves. “Spear-phishing is a somewhat ambiguous term. Targeted attacks can be a more efficient way of carrying out an attack [...]