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The State of Cybersecurity 2023: The Business Impact of Adversaries

Findings from an independent study of 3,000 leaders responsible for IT/cybersecurity across 14 countries conducted in January and February 2023.

Getting Started With Threat Hunting

In this report, we provide guidance on getting you started with threat hunting and a summary of the tools and frameworks security teams are leveraging to help them stay ahead of the latest cyber threats and rapidly respond to any potential attacks. We’ll also give you the five steps IT professionals should follow to prepare for threat hunting.

Cybersecurity in manufacturing

The story of manufacturing is one of constant technological change and evolution. It is also a story with a sweeping geopolitical arc from the industrial revolution in 19th-century Britain to modern-day China accounting for nearly 30% of the world’s manufacturing.

Cybersecurity for MultiAcademy Trusts in England

Exactly how state education is overseen and delivered in England has gone through significant changes in recent times. For more than 50 years local education authorities (LEAs) had sole responsibility for funding state schools. Sponsored academies were introduced from the early 2000s in an attempt to revitalise schools that were falling short of standards set by the education regulator Ofsted. By 2010 there were 203 such schools, out of a total 33331.

Managed Detection and Response (MDR) Services Buyers Guide

See how the different MDR providers stack up. - Understand the key benefits of implementing a MDR service as part of your cybersecurity strategy. - Get an overview of the key considerations when choosing a MDR service. - Compare the leading vendors including Sophos, Carbon Black, Huntress, Perch, Arctic Wolf, eSentire, Expel, Rapid7, Red Canary, SentinelOne, and CrowdStrike.

Cybersecurity in manufacturing

The past ten years have seen dramatic technological steps forward in manufacturing, not least in the development of AI and big data.

Cybersecurity in the retail sector

Technology touches every part of retail. For a brick-and-mortar retailer, the number one consideration is ensuring point of sale (POS) systems are up and running at all times.

Cybersecurity for UK Housing Providers

Access to housing is a basic human need, yet for some it can be a contentious issue particularly when it comes to the provision of social housing. In the UK, housing is often characterised as being in short supply, at the mercy of landlords, or being out of reach for those who have ambitions to own their first property. The ecosystem of private and publicly owned housing is complex. Housing associations operate in the grey area between public and private ownership…

Cybersecurity for Multi-Academy Trusts in England

Exactly how state education is overseen and delivered in England has gone through significant changes in recent times. For more than 50 years local education authorities (LEAs) had sole responsibility for funding state schools. Sponsored academies were introduced from the early 2000s in an attempt to revitalise schools that were falling short of standards set by the education regulator Ofsted. By 2010 there were 203 such schools, out of a total 33331…

Cybersecurity for Integrated Care Systems in England

Healthcare in England is undergoing major reform and this summer will see the arrival of 42 integrated care systems (ICSs)1 . These are new partnerships between organisations that meet health and care needs across an area, and include hospitals, clinics, nursing homes, carers, GPs and other healthcare trusts. This development represents a major change in how healthcare has been run in England for the past decade…

Industry Secrets: Cyber security for retail

The retail sector is one of the most highly targeted verticals in terms of cyber and social engineering attacks. Millions are lost annually as a result of ransomware attacks as retail employees are duped via increasingly ingenious methods into providing access to critical systems and data. We caught up with Christopher Salgado, CEO, All Points Investigations, and Kostandino Kustas, Cyber Security Consultant, Sophos, to find out how organisations are being targeted and what they can do to protect themselves.

Defending UK Universities and Further Education Colleges

Few would dispute that the last 2 years has been the most difficult period for the education sector since World War 2. With the pandemic shutting students and staff out of universities colleges and schools for months, the sector has had to struggle with the same financial and logistical challenges as every other part of the economy…

Housing Association Cybersecurity

The State of Ransomware in Manufacturing and Production 2021

Defending UK Education: A guide to cybersecurity in 2021

The Finance Sector and Supply Chain Risk: Developing a Proactive Cybersecurity Approach