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Are you data breach fatigued?

Data breaches are nothing new – quite the contrary – in fact their very frequency makes it likely that we’re fatigued to the point of indifference by the number of leaks which are surfacing.

• 20 Sep 2017

It looks like no-one cares about data protection regulations

It doesn’t matter if they were given more than two years to get ready, with six months to go until the EU GDPR deadline, it’s going to be a sprint finish for a worryingly large number of companies.

• 20 Sep 2017

EU-US Privacy Shield faces its moment of truth

While you were tucking into your ham sarnie European Commission Věra Jourová touched down in the US to start the first annual review of the EU-US Privacy Shield.

• 18 Sep 2017

Nominum Closes the Loop with ‘Security as a Service’ – A Network-based Paradigm

Download this paper from Strategy Analytics to find out how forward-thinking CSPs are offering cloud-based security services to keep destructive threats off their networks and safeguard businesses from the financial and operational damages that can result from malicious attacks.

• 13 Sep 2017

Two reasons why autonomous vehicles won’t work for a while

For some, the success of the self-driving car could be the point where we’ve made it. But perhaps that is much further away than we thought, and the stakeholders would have you believe.

• 12 Sep 2017

US telcos put aside differences to tackle authentication

The big four operators in the US have shown that they can actually get along by creating the Mobile Authentication Taskforce, with the objective of creating a mobile authentication solution for enterprises and customers in 2018.

• 11 Sep 2017

The Telecoms.com Podcast: Dirty data

Scott and Jamie are joined by Ray from Light Reading and the team start by reflecting on the amount of moaning the impending UK 5G auctions have caused. They then ponder how little control we have over our digital live and ask whether there should be a limit on the power of the dominant digital utilities. Lastly Ray derides dirty data, which is bad, naughty and needs to be thoroughly spanked to teach it a lesson, prompting one of Scott’s paranoid AI tangents.

• 11 Sep 2017

What we learnt at CloudSec: life, death and Twitter

Before you get too excited about the down and dirty world of cloud security, we should warn you this is more of a light-hearted report on the quirky things we picked up at CloudSec.

• 07 Sep 2017

Be honest about digital transformation; it’s a risky business – BT Security CEO

The risks are big, but the opportunities are even bigger; that’s why only the bravest are making the most of the digital economy to date.

• 05 Sep 2017

Breaking the bottleneck of counter fraud management

There is a real, looming threat that fraud management is becoming a bottleneck, impeding CSPs’ ability to offer and expand services until fraud data can be interpreted and managed.

• 29 Aug 2017

10% of FTSE 350 firms lack cyber security plan, but are you surprised

A recent report from the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport claims 10% of the UK’s 350 largest firms do not have a response plan in place for a cyber security incident.

• 22 Aug 2017

AWS beefs up security with a new bouncer named Macie

AWS has launched a new machine learning-based security service, which it claims will help customers identify anomalies inside their network.

• 15 Aug 2017

UK has a go at new data protection laws and it’s not a bad effort

The UK has unveiled details for its new Data Protection Bill, and while it is largely in line with European Union rules, there is also some substance to it (for once).

• 08 Aug 2017

EPIC questions Google’s security credentials

The Electronic Privacy Information Centre (EPIC) has filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) asking the body to investigate Google’s tracking algorithms.

• 01 Aug 2017

Data Revelations – Nominum Data Science Security Report

From the front lines of the war on cybercrime, Nominum discovers new trends in ransomware, phishing, IoT-related threats and more. We analyzed 15.3 trillion DNS queries to produce this 46-page report that delves into the mind of a cybercriminal.

• 26 Jul 2017

SK Telecom takes up the quantum security challenge

SK Telecom believes it has cracked the security conundrum for the ever expanding IoT world with a prototype ultra-small quantum random number generator (QRNG) chip.

• 25 Jul 2017

TSB eyes up the future of mobile banking with iris authentication

British bank TSB has made a bold step forward by introducing iris recognition to its mobile banking app as an authentication feature.

• 20 Jul 2017

Australia has a go at removing citizens’ security

The Australian Government is developing its own anti-encryption legislation, modelled on the UK’s Snoopers Charter, a set of rules deemed unfit by the European Court of Justice.

• 14 Jul 2017

Verizon and Amazon data security story full of holes

Verizon is doing its best impression of Swiss cheese, as one of its partners left sensitive information on up to 14 million customers on an unsecured Amazon database for a week after being notified.

• 13 Jul 2017

UN report reveals global cybersecurity holes

We have all suspected the world is not ready for the connected era, though the International Telecommunication Union’s (ITU) Global Cybersecurity Index (GCI) has confirmed it.

• 07 Jul 2017