Qantas Data Breach: Why Vendor Oversight Must Be a Compliance Priority
A recent Qantas data breach compromising the personal information of 5.7 million customers has highlighted the ongoing cybersecurity risk that thir...
Author: Nicholas Fearn
What Increased Defence Spending Means For The Cybersecurity Sector
As geopolitical tensions continue to rise globally, 2025 has seen a dramatic increase in defence spending not witnessed since the Cold War. In rece...
Why Regulators Are Favouring A Converged Approach To Cyber Resilience
As the digital ecosystem expands exponentially and cybercriminals seek to exploit security holes within it, regulators continue to apply pressure o...
Cybersecurity Is Battling A Mental Health Crisis – Here’s How To Solve It
The cybersecurity industry is experiencing an unprecedented mental health crisis as its teams and specialists work day and night to battle a growin...
Ransomware Attacks Are Becoming More Common and Dangerous: Here’s How to Prevent Them
Ransomware continues to be one of the biggest cybersecurity threats organisations face today. According to recent research from Check Point, this a...
Encryption in Crisis: UK Businesses Face Security Shake-Up Under Proposed Investigatory Powers Act Reform
The UK Government is pursuing changes to the Investigatory Powers Act, its internet snooping regime, that will enable law enforcement and security ...
What The UK’s Ransomware Payment Ban Means For Organisations
The UK government hopes to tackle the rise of ransomware attacks by banning what it claims to be their primary enabler: ransom payments. The propos...
What The EU’s Changes To The Cybersecurity Act Mean For Businesses
The European Union is continuing its efforts to strengthen cyber resilience across the bloc by adopting new amendments to the Cybersecurity Act (CS...
How Organisations Can Mitigate Botnet Attacks
An extensive Chinese-backed botnet campaign that weaponised hundreds of thousands of internet-connected devices globally for various malicious acti...
How Businesses Can Comply With NIS 2 Ahead Of Its October Implementation Deadline
Just over a month remains for European countries and businesses to prepare for the enforcement of the second iteration of the European Union’...
How Businesses Can Prepare For The Implementation of DORA
Financial institutions and IT service providers have just six months to comply with the European Union’s Digital Operational Resilience Act (...
Why Are Cybersecurity Pros Struggling With Compliance?
Regulatory compliance is a growing priority for cybersecurity teams, as they face mounting cybersecurity risks, increase their use of technology, a...
Foreign Interference Is Driving Up Insider Risk
Insider threats are becoming one of the biggest cybersecurity challenges facing today’s CISOs. A recent Securonix study claims that 76% of or...
What the EU AI Act Means for Your Business
Last month saw the European Union’s landmark artificial intelligence regulation enter the law books. The EU AI Act, which overwhelmingly passed the...
How to Tackle the Scourge of Cloud Misconfigurations
An exposed cloud data store containing the personal information of players on Australia’s national football team underscores the growing threat pos...
What Are Living-Off-The-Land Attacks and How Can You Stop Them?
Living-off-the-land (LOTL) hacking techniques aren’t exactly new, but a recent advisory from the US and its Five Eyes allies has highlighted the se...
How to Mitigate Spreadsheet Privacy Risks
A spate of high-profile data leaks in the UK has highlighted the security and privacy risks of using spreadsheets. The incidents were so serious th...
Why a New Legal Ruling Could Intensify GDPR Compliance
December saw one of the biggest changes to European data privacy regulation in recent memory. After a request from German and Lithuanian courts, th...
Privacy 2.0: Understanding Shifts in the Compliance Landscape
The advancement of artificial intelligence (AI), connected devices and other technologies has led to a data explosion. In fact, it’s estimated that...
The NCSC Annual Review 2023 And King’s Speech Reinforce The Importance Of Cybersecurity And Data Privacy
Two of the most significant events in the UK cyber security industry calendar over the past few months were the release of the National Cyber Secur...
What Businesses Can Learn From The SolarWinds Hack And SEC Charges
It’s been three years since American software company SolarWinds fell victim to one of history’s most significant cyber attacks. The in...
NIS Regulations: A New Era of Cybersecurity for England’s Healthcare Sector
When you think of the challenges faced by the National Health Service, things like a lack of funding and staff, long waiting lists, a growing popul...
The Electoral Commission and Police Force Data Breaches Highlight Major Security Holes in Britain’s Public Sector – How Do We Solve Them?
Serious data breaches at the Electoral Commission and multiple UK police forces have highlighted that public sector organisations aren’t immu...
