The Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) has plugged into energy sector organisations and government agencies to help power their cybersecurity capabilities. The nationwide program — which started in November 2018 – aims to improve the energy industry’s cyber threat resilience and responses. Read More …
This is the first blog in a three-part series where we’ll examine how security teams manage incident response processes. Here, we’ll highlight the challenges that security teams face when trying to mitigate incidents and how constraints force many teams into taking a Read More …
The team from France wins the largest and most complex international live-fire cyber defence exercise Locked Shields 2019. Czech and Swedish team take second and third place respectively. “The winning team excelled in availability, usability and providing services for the customer,” Read More …
An attack by bad guys online and on the ground on a big city’s critical infrastructure can straddle jurisdictional lines between local and federal authorities, making coordination among those groups critical but tricky, according to participants in a recent resilience Read More …
All-female classes in cyber-skills are being set up by the GCHQ intelligence service, in an attempt to recruit a wider range of online security experts. Almost 90% of the cyber-skills workforce worldwide is male, says GCHQ’s cyber-defence arm, the National Read More …
Immersive Labs, a cyber security skills platform founded by James Hadley, who used to be a researcher at GCHQ, has raised $8 million in Series A funding. Leading the round is Goldman Sachs, with participation from a number of unnamed Read More …
As law enforcement in the UK and beyond are now expected to tackle the plague of cybersecurity-related fraud, scams, and crimes being committed for the purposes of identity theft and financial gain, they must also now become familiar with the Read More …
After the hackers had stealthily accessed the SCADA system and blew the transformer with a loud bang, the defenceless employees had no option but to remove the control plugs and manually turn the machine back on. “That’s what they had Read More …
The Cadets CyberFirst programme, delivered by Ministry of Defence cadet organisations and the GCHQ National Cyber Security Centre, will equip over 2,000 cadets a year with the skills and expertise to become future leaders in this emerging industry. Over £1 Read More …
The Army’s cyber protection teams are upgrading their training program to include a real-life, round-the-clock, cyberattack on a city port. “There’s a dearth of realistic training venues,” John Nix, director of federal for SANS Institute, told FCW. “There are lots Read More …