The Foreign Secretary has called for an end to cyber attacks by hostile actors who are using the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic as an opportunity to carry out malicious cyber activity, including targeting medical facilities around the world. This follows a joint advisory by the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) and ...
James Stickland, CEO of authentication platform, Veridium, examines the security risks posed by video conferencing tools such as Zoom and considers what steps must be taken to make them more secure. Business tool Zoom has seen a 20 fold increase in users recently, as COVID-19 forces millions to work from home. ...
Official DPRTE 2020 partner, the Defence and Security Accelerator (DASA), has awarded 13 contracts worth a total of £2.3 million to develop improved Electro-Optics and Infrared (EOIR) sensor capability. The Advanced Vision 2020 and Beyond competition, run on behalf of the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl), sought innovation and novel approaches ...
The mental health campaign Heads Together, working in partnership with the Ministry of Defence, has launched a new platform with online tools to help defence personnel to take a more proactive approach to their mental health and mental fitness. HeadFIT, designed specifically for the Defence community, provides 24/7 access to self-help ...