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Cyber Essentials 2023 update

This month, the NCSC and its Cyber Essentials delivery partner IASME will update the technical requirements for the 2023 Cyber Essentials scheme. These changes come as part of a regular review of the scheme’s technical controls, ensuring that it continues to help UK organisations guard against the most common cyber threats. Changes come into play on 24th April 2023, and as stated on their website, these modifications will cover a variety of key areas.

ibm x-force threat intelligence index Breakdown

IBM have just released their coveted X-Force Threat Intelligence Index 2023 report, tracking new, existing and evolving threat insights, discovered over the last year. This in-depth, 58-page report explores threat actor’s exploitation of the after-effects of a global pandemic, and the turmoil caused by conflict between Russia and Ukraine, as IBM states “creating exactly the kind of chaos in which cybercriminals thrive. And thrive they did.”.

What is a Security Operations Centre?

Taking an offensive approach to cyber security is now essential in today's digital landscape. With large-scale cyberattacks regularly making mainstream headlines, it is outdated and frankly unwise to assume that your business is safe. Ensuring that you have robust threat detection and incident response capabilities has become a must for organisations of all sizes and industries - leading to many digital-savvy businesses implementing a Security Operations Centre (SOC).

Cyber Security - How will you manage yours?

Across the world, cyberattacks were seen by CEOs as the second biggest risk of doing business overall, only beaten by fiscal crises as potential disruptors. Unfortunately, SME's are the largest group of businesses at risk, and as the risks associated with poor security only increases, so does the need to identify quick areas of improvement.

Five key cyber security considerations for the finance sector

Financial services companies are naturally prime targets for cybercriminals. Not only do they have money and assets under their control, but equally hold highly sensitive and valuable data that can be exfiltrated to either pressure organisations themselves to ransom or defraud the end customer. Unfortunately, cybercrime has become an existential issue for financial institutions that are disproportionately attacked by threat actors.

12 Tips for a Cyber Safe Christmas

As Christmas approaches, many of you will be winding down and preparing for the festivities – unfortunately, cyber criminals notoriously take advantage of the holiday season, coercing their way into our digital spaces and cashing in on the season of giving. With this in mind, here are our cloud and security experts 12 top-tips, to ensure that your business and workforce, stay one step ahead of the hackers.