We are delighted to announce that The Shearwater Group plc Company have entered into a share purchase agreement to acquire certain business and assets of Secarma Limited, a leading provider of cyber security testing services and solutions, with the business to be rebranded Pentest on acquisition. David Williams, Chairman of Shearwater, said: “Over the past…
Data is widely recognised as the new oil and Insider Threat is widely recognised as the biggest threat to this asset; often referred to as the enterprise crown jewels. The loss of enterprise data has many ramifications, from financial penalties for non-compliance to a potential loss of competitiveness when an organisations secret sauce is made…
Internet-connected consumer devices can provide economic and social benefits. Weaknesses in the cyber security of these devices can undermine the privacy and safety of individual users, and can be used for large scale cyber-attacks. Insecure devices can compromise consumers ‘privacy and security or be hijacked and used to disrupt others’ use of the internet. In…
Brookcourt’s Cyber Threat Intelligence partner, Recorded Future talks about Recording data for cyberdefence in the Cyber Security 12pp special from The Sunday Times. Article below: Deliver threat intelligence that’s meaningful and accessible for all security professionals. Remove the barriers to adoption. Integrate threat intelligence into existing cybersecurity workflows. Cultivate the company’s ecosystem of partners. These…
Modern IT architecture is rapidly evolving, with the cloud and a range of connected devices becoming the new anchors for enterprise data. Organisations are recognising that moving to Office 365 enables rapid collaboration, while the likes of Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure can help their IT infrastructure become more responsive and flexible to…
Shearwater Group plc is pleased to announce that it has appointed Marcus Willett CB OBE as a Member of the Group’s Advisory Panel to work alongside Lord Reid of Cardowan, the Advisory Panel’s Chairman. In a 33-year career in GCHQ, Marcus rose to become the deputy head of the organisation responsible for all intelligence operations….
In 1943, Abraham Maslow’s paper “A Theory of Human Motivation” first introduced a hierarchy of human psychological needs. In Maslow’s concept (often illustrated as a pyramid), everyone’s psychological needs are built from the ground up. At the bottom of the hierarchy are concrete, fundamental elements of our psyche – things we require for survival. More…
Recent high-profile data breaches involving the likes of British Airways, Equifax and Facebook have highlighted the very real threat to businesses from cyber-attackers and other parties with designs on the data they hold. But a statistic from the government’s Cyber Security Breaches Survey 2018 might have more impact for smaller firms, with 43% of all…
Much of the daily work in cybersecurity lends itself to analogies with fighting fires — vulnerability management, perhaps the most so. Just like with firefighting, vulnerability management is almost always a race against the clock. They both concern problem solving within living systems, meaning that the elements of the system are not static, but interconnected and…
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