In the opening keynote at its annual Cisco Live EMEA event, regional leadership moved to cement the networking giant’s embrace of artificial intelligence (AI) with a raft of technology launches, some of them previously trailed. Marking the supplier’s 40th anniversary, EMEA president Oliver Tuszik spoke about how the organisation began with the idea of connecting…
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While artificial intelligence (AI) poses many risks for networks of all sizes, it also highlights the pitfalls of traditional network management in addressing real-time demands and unanticipated challenges – not to mention risks such as static configurations, manual interventions and reactive troubleshooting have become liabilities in the era of rapid technological advancement. Self-healing networks represent…
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The Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) came into force on 16 January 2023. Following a two-year implementation period, from 17 January 2025, financial organisations must fully comply with the new regulation, which aims to ensure they remain resilient to severe operational digital disruption. The act covers a number of aspects of cyber resiliency, auditability, and…
Cyber security, whether singly or in tandem with generative artificial intelligence (GenAI), dominates enterprise IT investment plans in 2025, according to Informa TechTarget’s Enterprise Strategy Group’s annual spending intentions research. The research, based on responses from 1,351 IT and business professionals worldwide, found that cyber security outpaces all other categories of initiative, with a dramatic…
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The Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) and the SANS Institute have kicked off a search for people aged between 18 and 25 to apply to join the UK Cyber Team, where they will gain hands-on experience, develop their skills and represent the UK in international competitions. Applicants are being invited to test their…
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The British Transport Police (BTP) have made an arrest in an ongoing investigation into a cyber attack on public Wi-Fi services provided at mainline UK railway stations on the evening of Wednesday 25 September. The incident saw passengers at 19 rail stations across the country unable to access Network Rail’s Wi-Fi network, which are provided…
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The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) and its counterpart Five Eyes agencies have accused a China-based company acting as a front for the state of running a massive botnet comprising over 250,000 internet-connected devices, about 8,500 of them located in the UK. The compromised devices include enterprise network and security tools such as routers…
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Security teams will have a busy few days ahead of them after Microsoft patched close to 140 new common vulnerabilities and exposures (CVEs) in its July Patch Tuesday update, including four zero-day exploits – one of them a third-party update via processor giant ARM. The four zero-days are listed, in numerical order, as follows: CVE-2024-35264,…
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Some of the world’s largest suppliers of networking technology have joined together with the Center for Cybersecurity Policy and Law, a Washington DC-based non-profit, to form an industry alliance focused on aligning technology providers, cyber security experts and non-profits to help solve some of the most pressing cyber security problems affecting data and networks today.…
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