Cybercrime Vs Geopolitics: How Ransomware Is Becoming A Geopolitical Tool
Nation states are ramping up destructive attacks utilising ransomware and wipers. What can be done to manage the risk? In 2017, Russia-linked adver...
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North Korean IT Workers Are Targeting the UK: What Should You Do?
Insider risk was until recently largely considered to be limited to isolated incidents. Dangerous, yes. But usually, the result of negligent employ...
The Governance Gap: Why the EU AI Act Is the Moment Boards Can No Longer Treat Compliance as Someone Else’s Problem
The EU AI Act is already in force, penalties are already active, and most enterprises cannot classify their own AI systems. The governance gap is n...
Why Cyber Resilience Remains a Long Way Off for Many UK Businesses
Cyber resilience has emerged as one of the key areas of focus for the cyber-industry of the past few years. Even the government has cited it in a c...
IO Scoops 11 Badges in G2 Grid Leader Report for Summer 2026
ISMS.online (IO) has been named a Leader in the G2 Grid® Reports for Summer 2026. We achieved eleven badges in the Summer Report! G2, a leading pee...
When The Help Desk Is The Threat
Old social engineering attackers never die; they just evolve and get better. Here’s a story of an attack group audacious enough to keep compr...
Shadow AI Is Already Inside Financial Services, Whether You Like It or Not
What can be done to regain control as the financial industry’s shadow AI issue gets worse? As tools such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT become ubiquitous, sha...
The King’s Speech 2026: How New Laws Will Impact Cybersecurity and Compliance
The state opening of parliament is an occasion filled with the kind of pomp and ceremony Britain still does better than any other country. What it’...
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Healthcare AI Is Moving Fast, But Data Governance Is Struggling To Keep Up
How can healthcare organisations resolve gaps in trust and data governance to realise the full benefits of AI? By Kate O’Flaherty The healthcare s...
If Burnout Were a Security Risk, We’d Already Have Solved It
Cybersecurity and compliance have always been good at one thing: taking uncertainty and forcing it into structure. We take something abstract, thre...
Why the UK’s NIS Update May Mean Extra Work for In-Scope Organisations
The Cyber Security and Resilience Bill (CSRB) continues to make its way through parliament. But the end of a lengthy legislative process is slowly ...
The EU AI Act August 2026 Deadline Has Been Delayed: What it Means for Businesses
The EU AI Act deadline for mandatory compliance for high-risk AI of August 2nd, 2026, has been postponed. Measures in the newly passed EU Digital O...
How Can Security Teams Prepare for a Post-Mythos Future?
The cybersecurity industry may have just had its “ChatGPT moment”. Unveiled in early April, Anthropic’s new Claude Mythos Preview model has apparen...
From NIS2 to the Cyber Resilience Act: The “Product” Side of Governance
Organisations have spent years focusing on securing themselves. But as the Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) looms, the spotlight is shifting to the produ...
Mind The Gap: The Salesforce Incident And The Evolving Nature Of Cloud Risk
After ShinyHunters hacking collective took advantage of “overly permissive” Salesforce guest user configurations to access data from up to 400 orga...
How Agentic AI is Creating a New Class of Risk for Cybersecurity Teams
Artificial systems that can think and make decisions with little human input show both incredible promise – and concern – for cybersecu...
What’s in the New EU AI Act Code of Practice on Transparency of AI-Generated Content?
Many of the final provisions of the EU AI Act are set to come into effect in 2026. On August 2nd, the majority of the EU AI Act will apply to opera...
