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Consumer smart devices: spotlight on cyber security From wearables to home appliances, internet-connected smart devices are rapidly changing the way we live. The average consumer may not be losing much sleep over the prospect of their shiny new digital companion being hacked, but recent UK government propo...

Stay on the back pages - NCSC urges sport to take cyber security seriously The sports sector has been urged to tighten its cyber security after a range of attacks by hackers, including an attempt to sabotage a Premier League transfer deal. The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has published its first ever report on thre...

Are UK organisations getting better at cyber defence in 2020? On Wednesday, the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) published its fifth Cyber Security Breaches Survey for 2020. The objectives of the survey are to study how organisations in the UK perceive and experience cyber security risks and w...

What should you do to combat the new COVID-19 cyber risk? Organisations grappling with a variety of issues raised by the coronavirus should ensure that ‘increased cyber risk’ is on the list of new risks to manage. In response, the UK’s national cyber security centre (the NCSC) published guidance yesterday which...

Is EIOPA trying to democratise cyber breach data? The European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA) has published a short note setting out its strategic priorities regarding the European cyber insurance market. EIOPA sees a functional cyber insurance market as being critical to the digit...

UK not ready to say goodbye to EU cyber certification Cyber certification is seen by many as an important tool in raising security standards and increasing public confidence in the digital, and data, economy. The EU's new Cyber Security Act ('the Act'), which entered into force last June, establishes a cyber...

Security by design – is cyber certification the answer? New cyber rules which come into force today introduce, for the first time, EU-wide rules for cyber certification of products, processes and services and encourage 'security by design'. They also give ENISA, the EU’s main cyber agency, a new name (the EU A...

Taking the pulse: what we can learn from the latest FTSE 350 Cyber Health Check The Government’s latest annual cyber health check gives a mixed report of how the UK’s leading companies are prioritising and managing cyber risk. Cyber does now seem to be a board level issue for most - nearly all of the companies that responded to the ...

Cyber: the risk of ignorance A report published by the government this week revealed the fact that only 16% of boards of FTSE 350 firms claim to fully understand the impact of loss or disruption associated with cyber threats, despite 96% having a cyber security strategy in place. Whi...