Vulnerability Management

There’s something big brewing in the world of security operations, but what exactly is it? We’re regularly inundated with various descriptions of useful tools and capabilities – think Security Orchestration, Automation and Response (SOAR), Threat Intelligence Platforms (TIPs), Security Incident Response (SIR), threat hunting and…

Cyber security professionals are currently busy sharing their predictions for the coming year, writes Jonathan Couch, who’s not a big fan of these types of predictions. That’s because what actually happens in any given year tends to be more of the same with one or…

Industrial Control Systems (ICS) are a specialised set of physical and cyber systems that drive production for critical infrastructure industries such as power generation and distribution, oil production and refining, chemical manufacturing and more, observes Mark Carrigan. ICS include field instruments (sensors and actuators), Distributed…

With cyber crime on the increase, payment card security is increasingly a focus for companies and consumers alike. The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) is there to help businesses accepting card payments to protect their payment systems from breaches and theft of…

PwC’s UK Risk Assurance practice is on track to recruit more than 1,000 technology specialists over the next four years in order to meet increasing client demand for digital, regulatory and cyber security services. The new recruits will work across all industry sectors in London…

Managing vulnerabilities is a significant challenge for many organisations, with the main difficulties manifest in two key areas, writes Brian Chappell. The first is that the list isn’t static. It seems that new vulnerabilities are discovered almost daily, adding to our list (assuming we’re scanning regularly, of…