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Digital Single Market: New EU rules allow Europeans to shop online without borders
NEC joins Cyber Threat Alliance (CTA) for sharing cyber threat information
NEC Corporation announced its membership in the Cyber Threat Alliance (CTA), a U.S.-based nonprofit organization that facilitates the sharing of cyber threat information among member companies in order to improve products and services and elevate security for customers
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BlackBerry to acquire Cylance and add premier AI and cybersecurity capabilities
Next-generation machine learning to complement entire BlackBerry technology portfolio moreProducts
JASK expands platform beyond SIEM to transform how SOC operators visualize cyber attacks
JASK ASOC platform sets new standard for security operations effectiveness with enhanced JASK Navigator investigation console and analyst-driven workflows more
Ziften enters Australia New Zealand market; Launches “Fast Start” program for Microsoft Windows Defender ATP resellers
Greg Kieser named ANZ country manager, Ziften partners with Insentra, and delivers new, expedited process for on-boarding Microsoft channel partners in the region more
Cisco and INTERPOL collaborate to combat cybercrime
Cisco, the worldwide technology leader, and INTERPOL, the world’s largest international police organization, have announced an agreement to share threat intelligence as the first step in jointly fighting cybercrime
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Directive on Security of Network and Information systems, the first EU-wide legislation on cybersecurity
9 May was the deadline for the Member States to transpose into national laws the Directive on Security of Network and Information Systems (NIS Directive) that entered into force in August 2016. The NIS Directive is the first EU-wide legislation on cybersecurity
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The Mind of the Hacker - Insights from GCHQ, MI6 and Israeli Intelligence
It used to be the trickery of the disinterested joker – bright youngsters pulling the data strings just to see what would happen. Then came criminals, adapting old con-trickery and thieving skills to the new cyber environment. Then it escalated to international gangs and now we are faced with political interest and rival shaping a post-truth world. Where are we heading? What is already happening? Vital questions must be addressed in this opening session before we turn to the technologies, solutions and strategies for securing the Cloud and Internet of Things. Brian Lord, OBE – former GCHQ Deputy Director for Intelligence and Cyber Operations – begins by describing the big picture, how it is evolving and where we could be heading. How is the balance of knowledge and power changing? And how will this affect our industry, business and society?
New technology approaches to today’s threat environment
Too often the bad guys are winning. Every day we learn about more cyber attacks – that is to say, more successful examples where hackers manage to penetrate vital business or government systems, steal data, steal money, steal intellectual property, and insert secret back doors for continuous surveillance, espionage, and sabotage
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Cisco 2019 Data Privacy Benchmark Study shows organizations gaining business benefits from data privacy investments
Length of sales delays from customer privacy concerns reduced by 50 percent. GDPR-ready organizations see lowest risk of data breach more
ITU releases 2018 global and regional ICT estimates
For the first time, more than half of the world's population is using the Internet more
Cisco predicts more IP traffic in the next five years than in the history of the Internet
The Internet is made up of thousands of public and private networks around the world. And since it came to life in 1984, more than 4.7 zettabytes of IP traffic have flowed across it. That’s the same as all the movies ever made crossing global IP networks in less than a minute
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