Infrastructure

Leading academics at Cranfield University have made comment on the present situation in Iran where tensions are rising in the Gulf region following the drone strike ordered by President Trump that killed General Qasem Soleimani. Iran has responded by vowing revenge and announcing it will…

The US Department of Justice (DoJ) has formally charged the leader of an organised cyber criminal group for their involvement in a malicious campaign affecting Government, infrastructure, business and the public globally. UK and US-based investigations by the National Crime Agency (NCA), the FBI and the…

The global Chartered body for safety and health-focused professionals has urged the UK Government to provide assurance and certainty on the future of the UK’s Health and Safety system. Following the General Election on 12 December, the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH) is…

Over two-thirds (67%) of British companies feel that cyber security concerns prevent them from adopting new technology to grow their business faster. That’s according to a new report from EY based on a survey of 175 C-Suite executives at UK-based organisations. Cloud computing and the…

One of the most significant limitations to economic growth and the achievement of development goals in any country, city or area is the shortcoming of its infrastructure. In short, the fundamental facilities and systems that serve to enable it to function. With this very much…

According to new research conducted by Deloitte, more than eight-in-ten organisations globally (83%) have experienced a third party incident – such as a supplier losing data after falling victim to a cyber attack – in the past three years. The figure rises to 90% of…

Recent, high-profile network outages have shown how the convergence of people, processes and systems, accelerated by the introduction of new technologies, has created the potential for systemic failures to proliferate across the telecommunications ecosystem, impacting multiple communications providers at the same time. Against this backdrop…

Technology is only one part of the cyber security puzzle. People contribute significantly to risk, as well as to an organisation’s ability to protect itself against myriad threats. This is precisely why the ‘human factor’ will be a key focus at Infosecurity Europe 2019, which…

Mitie’s Professional Services business has launched a new risk consultancy. Involving a team of seasoned professionals with more than 100 years of experience, the Threat Mitigation offer will be led by Ian Carter, former New Scotland Yard chief police officer and Ken Allison MBE, a…

Gartner, one of the world’s leading IT research and advisory companies, estimates that as many as 5.6 billion Internet of Things (IoT) devices owned by enterprises and Governments will make use of edge computing for data collection and processing in 2020, while by 2019, as…