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Today, award-winning cybersecurity PR agency, Eskenzi PR, turns 28. The agency, founded in 1995 by Yvonne Eskenzi and Neil Stinchcombe, has worked with some of the largest names in the cybersecurity industry and helped many organisations through sales, acquisitions and IPOs. On the anniversary, Eskenzi noted, in a blog published by the agency's website: "One of my colleagues just said to me what does it feel like to have been in business for so long? It’s...

Cybersecurity is a matter of national and international security and should be prioritised as such. This is particularly important when it comes to protecting Critical National Infrastructure (CNI) and the services that UK citizens rely on in their daily lives, as the consequences of disruption to these services has the potential to be devastating. With the world more digitised and interconnected than ever, a significant attack on CNI could lead to physical harm or even...

The MOVEit attack is constantly evolving and this week a new update has occurred. Maximus Inc., a US government services provider is the latest victim of the Clop ransomware gang’s exploitation of a critical vulnerability within Progress Software Corp.’s MOVEit file transfer software. It is estimated that as many as 11 million people have had information stolen. Maximus specialises in providing services for the US healthcare industry, specifically Medicaid, Medicare, health care reform, welfare-to-work and...

Hybrid work models and broadly adopted cloud technology disperse operations extensively; data is moved, stored, and accessed from highly distributed locations. Within such a disseminated environment, cybersecurity hygiene concerns businesses and organisations, especially nowadays, where highly skilled cybercriminals become more active, and their attacks are predicted to intensify further and increase the cost at a 15% annual rate. In today's digital age, every business, no matter its size, faces increasing cybersecurity threats, including the risk...

I don’t typically like awards; let’s be honest, more often than not, they’re pay to play – and most of us see them for what they are!   It begs the question; how come we ended up running an award that literally makes no money and takes a huge amount of time to organise for the heroes that work for me - Beth Smith and Nicole Sigrist?   It’s because there have never been any...

With 12 years of years of patented development and IP innovation, this week, Centripetal announced the launch of CleanINTERNET® CLOUD. The expansion aims to extend protection to enterprise assets anywhere - whether on premises, remote or in the cloud. CleanINTERNET® leverages dynamic threat intelligence from more than 250 threat intelligence providers in real-time, proactively shielding networks from 99% of known threats. Businesses are seeing significant value from the transition of key resources into the cloud....

Registration for this year’s International Cyber Expo (ICE) on the 26th and 27th of September 2023 at London Olympia is now open. The award-winning security event will once again showcase an impressive line-up of talks, demonstrations, and senior-level roundtable discussions led by reputable experts in the field; not least, Chair of the event’s Advisory Council, Ciaran Martin CB, Professor at Oxford University. To register for FREE, visit: https://ice-2023.reg.buzz/eskenzi-press-release-launch Off the back of the inaugural event...

KnowBe4, the provider of the world’s largest security awareness training and simulated phishing platform, today announced the results of its Q1 2023 top-clicked phishing report. The results include the top email subjects clicked on in phishing tests and reflect the shift to IT and online service notifications such as laptop refresh or account suspension notifications that can affect end users’ daily work. Phishing emails continue to be one of the most common methods to effectively perpetuate malicious attacks on organizations around the globe. Cybercriminals...

The European Cybersecurity Blogger Awards 2023 are back for a tenth successive year. This year’s sponsors include KnowBe4, provider of the leading security awareness training and simulated phishing platform, and Keeper Security, the leading provider of cloud-based zero-trust and zero-knowledge cybersecurity software protecting passwords, privileged access, secrets and connections. The awards are committed to celebrating the industry’s best bloggers, vloggers, podcasters and social media influencers.   Nominations are open now and the event will take...

The UK has announced a ban on TikTok on government phones, becoming the latest country to have banned the Chinese-owned video app over raised security concerns. The microscope has been on TikTok in recent months and has come under increased scrutiny due to fear is that user data from the app owned by Beijing-based company ByteDance could end up in the hands of the Chinese government. The ban is in place with immediate effect following...