The G-Cloud deadline: are you working towards it? The G-Cloud is a UK Government programme that eases procurement processes for public sector organisations that seek to purchase information-technology services from the private sector. The G-Cloud consists of a series of framework agreements with private sector suppliers from which public sector bodies can buy services, without […]
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2-sec are thrilled to announce that we have been accepted on to the Crown Commercial Service (CCS). The Crown Commercial Service (CCS) has brought together Government’s central commercial capability into a single organisation, amalgamating Government Procurement Service with other commercial teams from the Cabinet Office and central government departments. The CCS goal is to become
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Actually that headline is a little misleading In fact, the initial offer was 917 million records for 50 Russian Roubles, which is about 52 UK Pence / 75 US Cents. But, as highly ethical researchers at Hold Security have a policy to never contribute financially to a hacker’s cause, simply providing the hacker with a
Credentials! Get yer Stolen Login Credentials! Billion for a Pound! Read More »
£1,500 Cyber Security Voucher available for Scottish businesses This scheme aims to support companies to improve their knowledge, understanding and strategy towards handling cyber security and protecting valuable information for the company. An award of up to £1,500 is available to businesses in Scotland to help them check their current systems meet the Cyber Essentials UK Government Standard.
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Not Another Top X List The ol’ interweb is permanently awash these days with “Top X This” and “Y Most Something Else” lists, so why should this blog be any different? Well partly because we’re professionals and not clickbait, but, as anyone who has read a few of my blogs for 2-sec will likely know
Imagine you’re the CEO of a publicly listed company. In the middle of the night you get a call from your COO – they say there has been a major data breach, and an unknown (but significant) amount of customer data has been stolen… After the initial wave of panic passes, your technical teams start to
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The Old Title Holders Way back in June 2015 a breach of the US Office of Personnel Management (OPM) was being described as “among the largest breaches of government data in the history of the US”. At the time it was estimated that records of around 18 million people had been targeted, although that estimate
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How big do you think the gap is between a typical CISO and their CEO? Is that gap shrinking (as cyber security becomes more of an accepted and everyday business concept), or is it growing wider as scaremongers rush with overly-technical business cases and presentations that alienate board members? Last month I met a Chief Information Security Officer
What image do you think of when you think of cyber criminals? Do you picture the usual ‘stock image’ of a hooded figure, alone and surrounded by code, with his face hidden from view? Or how about an image like the one used above? The hooded-hacker image shows the stereotypical cyber criminal, operating alone and probably how the general
