NEW YORK - Verizon Business will host a media event on Wednesday, October 18, 2023, to celebrate20 years of cybersecurity consulting services and to commemorate Cybersecurity Awareness Month. Of particular interest is a panel discussion led by industry experts, Chris Novak, Managing Director of Verizon Cyber Security Consulting; Sean Atkinson, Chief Information Security Officer at the Center for Internet Security; and Krista Valenzuela, Cyber Threat Outreach and Partnerships, NJCCIC

Ransomware delayed Camden County, N.J., police investigations in March and April. A cyber attack disrupting Oakland, Calif., government in February, prevented residents from filing police reports

Cyber actors have demonstrated their continued willingness to conduct malicious cyber activity against critical infrastructure by exploiting Internet-accessible and vulnerable Operational Technology (OT) assets. To counter this threat, NSA has released a repository for OT Intrusion Detection Signatures and Analytics to the NSA Cyber GitHub.

In this guest post, Owen Sayers, an enterprise security architect with Secon Solutions, who has 25 years experience working within the UKs internet security framework, sets out the areas where he thinks the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) should focus its investigation into the hold that AWS and Microsoft have on the UKs cloud spend As expected, the report published by Ofcom has resulted in the referral of the clear dominance of Microsoft and Amazon Web Services (AWS) in the UKs public cloud market to the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA). Whilst it is right and proper that the CMA should determine its own scope for investigation, a number of areas already examined by Ofcom will undoubtedly be included. There are, however, other areas that the CMA would be wise to include if they wish to build a full and fair view of the public cloud landscape in the UK today, and how it has been historically influenced or shaped to become what we now see.