On the first of October, London’s deputy mayor for policing and crime Stephen Greenhalgh set up the London Digital Security Centre. The centre is the first specialist centre dedicated to help SMEs against cyber criminals.
The Cyber Security Challenge UK is a government-backed scheme aimed at filling the cyber security skills gap by recruiting young people with cyber talent.
Now in its sixth edition, the challenge has launched Cyphinx, a virtual 3D skyscraper that combines on-access games and competitions reflecting real world skills used by cyber security professionals on a daily basis.
Throughout October 2015, you can join one of the dozens of events, webinars, and other actions that are part of October-European Cyber Security Month (ECSM), which kicked-off on September 30th in Brussels. More than 100 events and activities in 27 countries will help us all protect ourselves from cyber threats through information security advice, competitions, education opportunities and sharing of good practices.
A report by Raytheon Websense reveals new concerns for the healthcare sector as the black market thrives on personal medical data.
No other technology sector changes as rapidly as cyber security – with new threats appearing on a daily basis.
Cyber security is a highly technical field with technologies ranging from anti-malware to encryption to firewalls to logging and analytics tools to application security to access and identity management platforms – and the list goes on
According to a Procorre research UK businesses are increasing their request for cybersecurity experts.The recent high profile hacks against Carphone Warehouse and Ashley Madison clearly showed the vulnerability of many IT security systems and contributed to the investment increase on cybersecurity. Cybersecurity roles account for 14% of UK-Based IT jobs, with 15% of cyber security professionals paid at least £100.000 per annum.
The second General Assembly meeting of WISER project was held in Milan on 9th and 10th september 2015.
The meeting was also an opportunity for the Associate Partners to express their expectations on the risk management framework that WISER is going to deliver.
Genomic research is one of the most exciting areas in science. Set to improve efficiency of treatments and cut costs, genomics will bring us a new age of personalised medicine that focuses on treating patients not just by their current illness, but their specific genetic make-up. However, we are only just beginning to understand the technological implications of this data-intensive research on datacentre infrastructures. And data rules.
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