A new whitepaper from Imperial College London discussing how the NHS can improve cybersecurity has been presented at the House of Lords. In 2017 the NHS experienced a ransomware attack which affected around 16 health service organisations across England and Scotland. The ransomware, developed by the US to exploit the CVE-2019-0708 ...
A new system to quantify terror threat levels has come into effect that aims to encompass all forms of terrorism. The changes to the terror threat levels have come after a review process into counter-terrorism following attacks in 2017. The new system will reflect the threat from all forms of terrorism, ...
The US Department of Defence has released its Digital Modernization Strategy which will inform their information technology reforms. The DOD Digital Modernization Strategy serves as the armed force’s Information Resource Management (IRM) strategic plan as well as presenting IT-related goals that will help secure the National Defence Strategy (NDS) and the ...
The Defence and Security Accelerator (DASA) has announced the appointment of Anita Friend as its new Head. Anita Friend comes from the Home Office where she was responsible for increasing our resilience to Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear and Explosive attacks. Accepting the role she said: “I am really excited to be taking ...