Intellectual Property

Drone incidents are on the rise. Recent high-profile events have begun to show the potential damage and threat that drones can pose to Governments and commercial organisations as well as by dint of the targeting of individuals. This isn’t unexpected. Security experts have long been…

A free cyber audit tool has been released to its customers by a global technology leader in integrated access control, intruder alarms management and perimeter protection in what it believes is an ‘industry first’. Gallagher Security has unveiled its Security Health Check (SHC) tool to help…

Adversarial social media activity was a relevant factor in 27% of significant incidents suffered by global businesses in the last 12 months, according to data from the latest Global Fraud and Risk Report released by Kroll (the specialist in risk mitigation, investigations, compliance, cyber resilience,…

The Door Hardware & Access Control Group, a business unit of ASSA ABLOY Opening Solutions UK & Ireland, has released a new White Paper highlighting the “misleading” key copy protection claims being made by many cylinder lock suppliers. Entitled ‘Dispelling the Myth: Misleading Claims Around…

Threats come and go, but one thing remains the same: the ability of cyber criminals to adapt to circumstances. A brief decline of interest in ransomware as criminals focused their attention on cryptojacking during the previous year appears to have come to an end and…

Bitglass has just released ‘Guardians of the Cloud’, its 2019 Cloud Security Report. As organisations migrate more of their data and operations to the cloud, they must maintain a robust cyber security posture. To uncover how well they’re accomplishing this, Bitglass has partnered with a…

Carbon Black, the cloud-native endpoint protection specialist, has issued a threat report outlining how a well-known cryptomining campaign has been enhanced to steal system access information for possible sale on The Dark Web. Dubbed ‘Access Mining’ by Carbon Black researchers, this particular attack stands to…

Lloyd’s-accredited insurance broker G&M International has just announced the addition of Intellectual Property (IP) insurance to its growing product portfolio. The new IP-focused cover has been designed to protect clients’ intangible assets (ie ideas, designs, logos, patents and more) from potential infringement caused by competitors. A…

Axis Communications, the specialist in network video technology, has published its latest whitepaper entitled ‘Smart Buildings & Smart Cities Security’. Authored in association with Unified Security and Virtually Informed, the document is the third in a series looking at specific aspects of security and provides…

The subject of ‘The Insider Threat’ is fast rising up on the corporate agenda. While you might think a company’s own employees would be less likely to pose security risks than external attackers, a recent analysis by Computing has found that this type of threat…