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(ISC)² – the world’s largest nonprofit membership association of certified cybersecurity professionals – has this week announced the founding of its Professional Development Institute (PDI) to combat one of the largest challenges facing the cybersecurity community today – a global shortageof skilled and trained professionals to defend organizations against the evolving onsla...

British intelligence has concluded that security risks posed by using equipment made by Chinese telecom giant Huawei can be managed, the Financial Times reported on Monday. The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) sees ways of limiting risks from using Huawei in future 5G networks, according to two unnamed sources cited by the Financial Times. The firm is the leading manufa...

UK cybersecurity darling Darktrace is at risk of being pulled into the US fraud case against tech billionaire Mike Lynch and his former Autonomy colleague Sushovan Hussain. US court documents show that Federal Bureau of Investigation agents held a voluntary interview with Darktrace’s co-chief executive Nicole Eagan, as first reported by the Sunday Telegraph. The US governmen...

According to a new report published by Graphical Research, titled, "Europe Identity & Access Management (IAM) Market Analysis based on Deployment Model, Solution, Application", predicted to reach USD 4 Billion By 2024. As employees are moving beyond the traditional way of doing business by interacting with customers through multiple channels, it is essential for the enterpri...

The cyber security industry has faced well-documented challenges in recruitment and employment, a problem that has only been exacerbated by continued discussion of the skills gap. But despite these issues, Louise Barker, head of talent at NCC Group, thinks it’s important to celebrate the successes that the industry has achieved in employment and understand what we can do to ...

When Michael Tobin was born, his father William was in prison for running an illegal entreprise — a gang that specialised in crime in a seedy part of East London. At one point, Michael's mother moved with him to Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe, just to get him out of the social circumstances he found himself in as a boy. Today, the former CEO of Telecity is one of Britain's leading e...

The latest KPMG report into the readiness of countries for the adoption of driverless cars (autonomous vehicles) has seen the United Kingdom fall two places to be ranked 7th overall, which is just behind Sweden and Finland. Apparently we’re being hampered by poor infrastructure, particularly 4G mobile coverage and road quality. The 2019 Autonomous Vehicles Readiness Index ra...

British investment group Legal & General Capital will take a 50 percent stake in Kao Data, the company operating the eponymous data center campus in Harlow, Essex, UK. The site is currently home to a single 8.8MW data center; the investment will help fund another three facilities at the site. “We see a market gap, and Kao presents a unique opportunity to build and create a l...

IBM has announced it is liberating its Watson AI services to work across any cloud platform. The news was announced at the opening of IBM's Think event in San Francisco, and could mean a major expansion to the possibilities of what Watson can do, and where it can be deployed. Going forward, IBM Watson services will be integrated with IBM Cloud Private for Data, meaning they ...

Google CEO Sundar Pichai has announced a $13 billion programme to build seven new data centres and a range of new offices across the United States. The spending will entail expansion of the company’s footprint in 14 states, and mean that it has a home in 24 total states, with 13 data centres in the US. In a blog posted late Wednesday, Pichai said: “One year ago this week, I ...