The increase in ever-more complex data breaches and ransomware attacks is seeing the CISO bring the subject of the cybersecurity to the boardroom. It’s a proactive stance to provide adequate defences, rather a reactive move to counter a detected breach.

However, this all comes at a cost, and with The Economist suggesting that a global recession in 2023 is inevitable, justifying any big investments is going to be even harder.

On 10th November we co-hosted Gear Up – Driving Security Transformation, with industry-leading solution providers CrowdStrike, eSentire and Netskope.

Hosted at the London Rally School near Bicester, we were joined by 30 Infosec professionals looking to drive forward their IT security transformation.

Fighting modern adversaries requires having a modern security operations center (SOC), especially as organizations move to the cloud. To protect their estates against tomorrow’s threats, security professionals have often turned to more data sources and adding more security monitoring tools in their operations, both in the pursuit of maximizing their attack surface visibility and reducing time to detect and respond to threats.

On 13th October activereach co-hosted with Cymulate, a leader in Extended Security Posture Management (XSPM) and Gartner Cool Vendor, a virtual wine tasting and industry roundtable.

Hosted online, over 25 Infosec professionals from various industries joined us to sample fantastic wines as well as discover why CIOs and CISOs should not make cybersecurity assumptions and need to constantly re-evaluate which elements of their cybersecurity solution stack they should keep, replace, or eliminate.

We’ve seen major shifts in the digital landscape that have far reaching implications on organizations around the world. These include the widespread adoption of hybrid work, the accelerated migration from on-premise to cloud resources, and the exponential increase of data in the cloud.

While organizations gain many benefits from leveraging new cloud technologies, there are several challenges that arise with new ways of doing business, including the increasing complexity of an ever-expanding attack surface, the rising number of attacks targeting web and cloud apps, and protecting users, devices, and data regardless of where they reside.

Supply chain disruptions have had a devastating impact on the global economy. Suppliers and consumers feel the sting from rampant inflation to product shortages and factory closures.

One leading cause of supply chain disruption – a dramatic increase in cyberattacks – is a significant concern for CXOs and IT executives.

We constantly see cybersecurity (and lack of) in the news, so it got me thinking about my favourite 10 films about cybersecurity, which was also inspired by this article. This list is by no means exhaustive and is purely based on my own personal opinions as a 20 year veteran in the tech industry and almost twice as long as a computer geek.

The unsung hero of our connected world is the Application Programming Interface (API). They are the connective tissue that enable developers to explore new services, integrating them into new, great solutions faster. The power, flexibility and widespread use of APIs makes it essential that the way users interact with them is secured.