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Cyber threats against the Office for Budget Responsibility have over doubled in the past 12 months, ahead of Rachel Reeves’ crunch Autumn Budget. On November 26th, Reeves is set to announce a wave of economic policies to fight against the high cost of borrowing in the UK, with hints of income tax and inheritance tax hikes on the horizon. The Office for Budget Responsibility provides an independent analysis of the UK’s public finances, from which the Chancellor of the Exchequ...
Cybersecurity experts are warning that too many organizations are treating resilience as a compliance requirement rather than embedding it into core business strategy, leaving them dangerously exposed to cyber attacks. According to Gartner, resilience is too often viewed as a “tick-box” exercise focused narrowly on metrics or recovery documentation. Instead, experts stress the need for cross-department collaboration, regular testing through simulations, and executive-level involvem...
Absolute Security, a pioneer in enterprise cyber resilience, is expanding into India, a fast-growing technology market expected to top $160 billion by 2030. As part of its entry into the country, the company is growing a dedicated India-focused team and has opened a data center there through an AWS partnership to serve customers in the region. Data sovereignty requirements With Absolute Security, clients can help ensure their businesses are always on, defended against threats These fou...
Cybersecurity teams are taking a cautious approach to artificial intelligence (AI), despite industry hype and pressure from business pioneers to accelerate adoption, according to a new survey from ISC2. While AI is widely promoted as a game-changer for security operations, only a small proportion of practitioners have integrated these tools into their daily workflows, with many remaining hesitant due to concerns over privacy, oversight, and unintended risks. Advanced in industrial se...
Absolute Security, a pioneer in enterprise resilience, announced new Extreme Resilience capabilities available in Rehydrate, an Absolute Resilience Platform module. Rehydrate enables remote restoration of Windows endpoints at enterprise scale with a single click. It delivers full recovery even when the device OS and other security or management tools have crashed, been compromised, or become corrupted. New Extreme Resilience capabilities With these new Extreme Resilience capabilities, Re...
The UK’s AI Safety Institute has been recast as the UK AI Security Institute, bolstering protections against AI risks facing national security and crime, and delivering a key pillar of the government’s Plan for Change. The pivot reflects a focus on serious AI risks with security implications, including malicious cyber-attacks, crimes against fraud and the development of weaponry. Assess the risks by frontier AI AI Security Institute will partner with national units, incl...
Absolute Security, the pioneer in enterprise resilience, announced that the Absolute Resilience Platform has expanded to provide customers with integrated, resilient, and automated patch management, vulnerability scanning and remediation, workflow automation, and remote “one-click” endpoint rehydration. Unified with existing Absolute capabilities, this single-platform approach delivers needed security and risk capabilities, reduces the cost of endpoint management, and improves resil...
Absolute Security, the pioneer in enterprise resilience, has been recognized by renowned industry analyst organization - Forrester among Notable Vendors in its recent report: The Zero Trust Edge Solutions Landscape, Q4 2024. This recent report helps organizations understand the main trends, challenges, and benefits driving ZTE adoption, along with providers that deliver on a range of use cases. Zero Trust edge (ZTE) solutions Authored by Forrester Principal Analyst - Andre Kindness, the repor...
The UK is set to unveil a new skills initiative at the Global Cyber Skills Summit 2024, as the UK, US, and EU convene as part of a “renewed focus” to tackle cyber threats. Cyber Security Minister Feryal Clark confirmed that the UK will launch a regional skills program to fund initiatives such as apprenticeships to build local pipelines of cyber experts across England and Northern Ireland, as well as funding companies developing new forms of cyber security. Cyber skills trainin...
Absolute Security, the pioneer in enterprise cyber resilience, has acquired Syxsense, a recognized innovator in automated endpoint and vulnerability management. Firmware-embedded platform With Syxsense integrated, customers will be able to add automated, vulnerability and patch management capabilities. From the moment devices are powered on, organizations will be able to leverage Absolute’s firmware-embedded platform to ensure that operating systems (OS), applications, and critical secu...
Over half (54%) of Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) feel their security team is unprepared for evolving AI-powered threats, according to research from Absolute Security. The findings were uncovered in the Absolute Security United Kingdom CISO Cyber Resilience Report 2024 which surveyed 250 UK CISOs at enterprise organizations, via an independent polling agency Censuswide, to assess the state of cyber resilience, AI, and the cyber threat landscape in the UK. NCSC findings According...
Key figures from the cyber security industry have issued a stark warning about the threat posed by AI-enabled ransomware attacks. Infosecurity Europe Over 50 security pioneers and senior executives gathered at a specialist security workshop, organized by Absolute Security at the European conference - Infosecurity Europe. The event saw security pioneers debate the risks posed by generative AI, growing volumes of ransomware and cyber attacks, and the risks posed to businesses. Cyber resilience...
Over one-third (35 percent) of Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) admit to ignoring the National Cyber Security Center’s (NCSC’s) cybersecurity guidance. This finding and others were revealed in a new survey and report from Absolute Security, a global pioneer in enterprise cyber resilience. Cyber Resilience Report 2024 This finding was despite 48 percent of respondents revealing that their organization was hit by a ransomware attack over the past year. The NCSC has issued...
New Government regulations mandate that all internet-connected smart devices, spanning from phones to TVs to smart doorbells, adhere to minimum-security standards by law. Groundbreaking legislation is in effect in the UK, aimed at shielding consumers and businesses from cyber threats. Cyber laws This initiative, spearheaded by the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology, the National Cyber Security Centre, and the Office for Product Safety and Standards, along with the efforts of Ju...
Absolute Software, the pioneer in enterprise cyber resilience, is available to assist organizations impacted by Ivanti Connect Secure and Ivanti Policy Secure Zero Days and other vulnerabilities. 90-day support Help includes free Absolute Secure Endpoint and Absolute Secure Access product licenses and support for 90 days, along with the expertise needed to quickly deploy and scale replacement solutions across endpoints. Absolute solutions are not impacted by the Zero Days and other vulnerabil...
Absolute Software, the provider of self-healing, intelligent security solutions announced the launch of Absolute Application Health. This new feature empowers digital enterprises to strengthen cyber resilience and boost end-user productivity with the industry’s most advanced application health monitoring capabilities. Health monitoring With this latest innovation to the company’s Secure Endpoint product line, customers can monitor the health of more than 2,000 commonly used Window...
Absolute Software™, the only provider of intelligent, self-healing security solutions, has announced that it has been recognized as a pioneer in the Fall 2023 Grid® Reports for Endpoint Management and Zero Trust Networking published by G2, the world's largest and most trusted software marketplace. The latest reports also revealed that an overwhelming majority of Secure Endpoint users (97%) and Secure Access users (99%) rate Absolute with four or five stars. Absolute Secure Endpoint...
Absolute Software, the only provider of intelligent, self-healing security solutions, announced that it has been recognized for the second year in a row as a Representative Vendor in the 2023 Gartner Market Guide for Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA). In the report, Gartner emphasized growing demand in the market and ZTNA’s future direction. The report stated, “The ZTNA market has continued to mature and grow rapidly. Gartner’s Forecast: Enterprise Network Equipment by Market S...
The National Cyber Security Center (NCSC) and Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) have ramped up their focus on the UK’s digital resiliency to better protect against the rising tide of cyber-attacks. A top priority for the organizations is to improve the UK’s response to cyber incidents, with the ICO incentivizing impacted businesses to engage with the NCSC to encourage transparency and recovery against threats. NCSC and ICO’s resiliency roadmap The NCSC and ICO&rs...
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has issued a warning about the risks posed by smart devices harvesting personal data. The ICO also announced a crackdown on connected devices, announcing plans for new rules and action to be taken against manufacturers who fail in their data security obligations. Audit of connected devices The warning comes in response to a new report from Which? that conducted a detailed audit of connected devices, revealing that almost all required location...
Data breaches currently cost UK organizations an average of £3.4 million, but AI can be used to significantly reduce, according to a new IBM Security Report. This comes as IBM’s annual Cost of a Data Breach Report, which analyzed real-world data breaches from 553 global organizations between March 2022-March 2023, showed a decrease in the total average of a data breach in the UK from £3.8m in 2022 to £3.4m in 2023. Businesses impacted by data breach Tech businesses and...
Absolute Software the only provider of self-healing, intelligent security solutions announced that Forrester, an industry pioneer analyst firm, has recognized Absolute in its recent report, The Zero Trust Platforms Landscape, Q2 2023. Use of zero trust platform The publication advises readers on what Zero Trust platforms are, the business value they deliver, and the dynamics and vendors driving the market. The report also highlights how organizations can discover how to 'use Zero Trust platfo...
Absolute Software, the only provider of self-healing, intelligent security solutions, has expanded its differentiated Security Service Edge (SSE) solution with the launch of the Absolute Secure Web Gateway Service. Optimized for hybrid and mobile work models, this new extended offering builds on existing capabilities available in Absolute Secure Access including Absolute ZTNA and Absolute Insights™ for Network and empowers organizations to strengthen security, boost productivity, and...
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has revealed that around 90 organizations have suffered personal data breaches following the recent Capita cyber-attack that happened in March earlier this year. Pension funds such as The Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS), the UK's main pension fund for universities, is among the victims whose data has been compromised as a result of this attack. The outsourcing giant is said to have left a pool of data unsecured online and hu...
Absolute Software, the only provider of self-healing, intelligent security solutions, has revealed new research highlighting that 25-30 percent of enterprise devices have unhealthy security controls. The findings in Absolute’s ‘2023 Resilience Index’ contract the long-held belief that having more security solutions directly equates to more protection. The report leverages the analysis of over 14 million anonymized customer devices to benchmark for organizations looking to str...
Absolute Software, the only provider of self-healing, intelligent security solutions, announces the continued expansion of the Absolute Application Resilience™ ecosystem with the company’s latest product release. Joint customers can now leverage Absolute’s patented Persistence® technology, and unbreakable device connection, to strengthen the health and resiliency of more than 70 mission-critical security and business tools - including eClinicalWorks, Forescout® SecureC...
Key figures from the cyber security industry will gather to address the Parliament to discuss the UK’s readiness to defend itself against the growing threat posed by ransomware. Cyber – The Next Threat The event, entitled Cyber – The Next Threat is organized by the Parliament Street think tank and chaired by former Business Minister - Dean Russell MP and will take place on 13th March 2023. The expert panel includes cyber security veteran Nicko van Someren, CTO, of Abso...
Absolute Software, the only provider of self-healing, intelligent security solutions announced that it has been named a Leader in the Winter 2023 Grid® Reports for Endpoint Management and Zero Trust Networking published by G2, the largest and most trusted software marketplace. Absolute Secure Endpoint For 12 consecutive quarters, Absolute Secure Endpoint has ranked in the highest quadrant for Endpoint Management solution providers based on user ratings from verified G2 users and high level...
8 percent of UK schools admitted to suffering from a cyber incident according to an audit from the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), amidst news of 14 UK schools falling victim to a major cyber-attack. The audit consisted of 805 schools between the 3rd and the 31st of May 2022, with participating schools from all areas of the UK. It was revealed that just over half of schools, 53 percent, felt they were prepared for a cyber incident, up from 49 percent in a 2019 survey. Cybersecurity ...
Absolute Software, a provider of self-healing, intelligent security solutions announced that it has earned a Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) Ready designation suitable for a FedRAMP JAB Authorization. The designation is granted at the Moderate Impact level for Absolute’s Secure Endpoint product suite. In achieving this designation, Absolute is enabling federal agencies to strengthen cyber resiliency and maintain complete visibility and control across their devi...
