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Automated Security Tools Are No Substitute for Educated Employees

As in every industry—particularly technology-centric ones—the history of the cyber security industry has been one of task automation. From the early days (some may say Gen I days) of firewalls and pattern-matching antiviruses to modern techniques of machine learning-based malware detection and traffic analysis, the tools available to a security-minded business are constantly growing in complexity, in an arms race with cybercriminals whose malware has been doing the same.

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Privacy By Design is Here to Stay

One of the most seismic events in information security last year was undoubtedly the entry into force of the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), perhaps the most radical shift in data protection thinking since people started to require secret passwords to access a person’s account. The GDPR hysteria has settled down somewhat since May, but it has become clear that the Regulation represents a wider shift in approach to data protection and consumer privacy, and things will not end here.

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SMEs and Cyber Security: A case study

With data breaches of major tech. firms—your Googles and your Facebooks, for example—eating up all of the news coverage throughout the year, it’s easy for owners and employees of smaller to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to grow complacent. ‘They wouldn’t bother to attack little old me’, you might be thinking, but security through obscurity is no security at all.

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Mobile Malware

Europol’s 2018 Internet Organised Crime Threat Assessment reported that ‘[m]obile malware [was] absent in law enforcement reporting, but industry reports [a] growing volume’ of such

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