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Privacy What if your favorite dating, social media or gaming app revealed your exact coordinates to someone you’d rather keep at a distance? Tony Anscombe 12 Aug 2024  •  , 3 min. read In today’s digital age, geolocation features in many apps offer undeniable convenience. Just before writing this blog, I needed to locate some materials for a DIY project, and using the ‘click and collect’ feature I immediately established the closest store that has…

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Critical Infrastructure In this high-stakes year for democracy, the importance of robust election safeguards and national cybersecurity strategies cannot be understated Tony Anscombe 09 Aug 2024  •  , 3 min. read The mention of election security, especially in a year where the majority of the world is destined to vote, brings to mind images of a voting machine or even some form of subversion of online voting or counting processes. So it was not a…

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Video Unsurprisingly, many discussions focused on the implications of the recent CrowdStrike outage, including the lessons it may have offered for bad actors 09 Aug 2024 This week was that time of the year when thousands of cybersecurity experts descended on Las Vegas to attend Black Hat USA, one of the world’s top cybersecurity conferences. With a large proportion of the world’s population going to the polls this year, one of the keynotes focused on…

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Business Security Cyber insurance is not only a safety net, but it can also be a catalyst for advancing security practices and standards Tony Anscombe 08 Aug 2024  •  , 3 min. read If there was ever any doubt about the relationship between cybersecurity and the cyber insurance industry, then Black Hat USA 2024 dispelled it. A full afternoon on a main stage was dedicated to the cyber insurance industry, allowing them to share their…

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Business Security Having knowledgeable leaders at the helm is crucial for protecting the organization and securing the best possible cyber insurance coverage Tony Anscombe 07 Aug 2024  •  , 4 min. read The board does not understand cybersecurity – that’s not so anymore. Prior to the pandemic, the CISO and cybersecurity team were seen as the geeks in the room down the hall who always said no. Even post-pandemic, while there is appreciation that cybersecurity…

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Video Organizations that leveraged AI and automation in security prevention cut the cost of a data breach by US$2.22 million compared to those that didn’t deploy these technologies, according to IBM 02 Aug 2024 Organizations that leveraged the power of artificial intelligence (AI) and automation in security prevention cut the cost of a data breach by as much as US$2.22 million compared to those that didn’t deploy these technologies, according to IBM’s Cost of a…

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Business Security Many smaller organizations are turning to cyber risk insurance, both to protect against the cost of a cyber incident and to use the extensive post-incident services that insurers provide Tony Anscombe 31 Jul 2024  •  , 4 min. read If we were to stop people on the street and ask for words to describe the people involved in the world of cyber, there would, undoubtedly, be many words used. I am confident they…

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