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Healthcare organisations made up 37% of cyber attacks in Q3 according to cyber security insurance firm Beazley Breach Response (BBR) Services. In recent months, the insurance company has seen the number of reported ransomware incidents climb. The number of notifications of ransomware attacks more than doubled in September, when compared with the previous month. In...

Political events over the past few years have caused a lot of people to wake up with a start – there’s nothing like a bit of national outcry to shake you out of your slumber. That moment of trying to come to terms with what happened while you were sleeping is all too familiar to...

It is very tempting when creating a cyber security strategy to fall down a rabbit hole of stolen customer data, fears of reputational damage and planning your PR response should things all go horribly wrong. In doing so, our efforts become focused on pulling up the drawbridge to protect our network from the risk of...

Who’d be a CISO nowadays? Expected to set and oversee information security strategy, and potentially take the fall should a breach occur. You need eyes in the back of your network, trust in your team and the ability to influence the board with sound business arguments, not horror stories. The world’s first CISO is widely...

SCC’s Head of Innovation, Dan Cartter, will speak at the Cyber Security: Business Insight Conference on Wednesday 17th October. The half-day conference, taking place at Bournville College, Longbridge, will host presentations and discussions that examine cyber breaches and their risk to brand reputation and customer trust. The morning will feature the presentation ‘Be on the...

It’s 4:30pm and you’re in the middle of a meeting when you’re interrupted by one of your technical architects. They want to let you know that they think there’s been a security breach so could you come down and help them check it out please? Before you can make your excuses however, they’re back in the room...

Most, if not all data centres, employ strong measures to help protect client information from unseemly access or use by unauthorised persons, either externally or internally. But with a world now firmly in the digital age, and a hacking community more sophisticated and complex, you may be wondering just how secure is your data centre?...

We’ve all heard the word ‘cookie’ banded around, especially in the wake of GDPR, but sadly in the IT world, this one is not made of chocolate chips. Many people are still unfamiliar with the exact meaning of the word cookie and more importantly, the cookie law. Here, SCC explains exactly how cookies work, and...

Legacy technology could be leaving the NHS open to cyber attacks, according to new research. The discovery was made by staff at Check Point Software, who found exploits in widely used fax machines that could allow hackers to spread malware through a malicious image file.  Check Point uncovered that malware could be coded into an...

The advent of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) should bring with it some feelings of reassurance and heightened security. However, some cybercriminals are using it to their advantage in order to exploit unknowing users. According to the Independent, fraudsters have been posing as banks over email and using GDPR as an excuse to extract...

Artificial intelligence (AI) in the global cyber security market is projected to grow at a CAGR of 36% during 2017-2023, reaching $18.1 billion by 2023. The research, conducted by P&S Market Research, suggests that the rising number of cyber frauds and malicious attacks is the major factor driving AI demand in the cyber security market....

A new survey conducted by security and systems management company Tanium indicates that 40% of businesses feel more exposed to cyber attacks than ever before – and there is good reason for it. The truth is it’s easier than ever for someone to become a hacker and with GDPR just around the corner, it is vital...