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Threat intelligence: know your enemy

February 19, 2026 admin

Security teams today have access to multiple sources of information on threats and threat actors. These come from industry, from law enforcement, and even their own networks and SOCs. The volume of information can sometimes […]

Cyber skills: a crisis of our own making?

September 18, 2025 admin

Is cybersecurity’s skills crisis one of its own making? There are between three and four million vacancies for cybersecurity professionals worldwide, depending on the research you read. Over the years, there has been plenty of […]

Beyond the Titanic: Cybersecurity in Northern Ireland

May 8, 2025 admin

Northern Ireland has moved on dramatically since the Good Friday agreement. And its prosperity has been boosted by significant inward investment, much of it in financial services. But its technology and cybersecurity industry is growing […]

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Introducing Cybersecurity Skills

February 18, 2025 admin

Skills — and skills shortages — are among the most pressing issues facing CISOs and, indeed, everyone who relies on cybersecurity. A shortage of skilled operators threaten to undermine the security of organisations across the […]

Deep fakes, AI and digital trust

August 11, 2023 admin

How do we operate in a world where there is no such thing as absolute truth? And where whether a statement, event or even someone’s identity is a likelihood, probability, or a percentage score? That […]

Closing the skills gap – part 1: Deryck Mitchelson

July 6, 2022 admin

The cybersecurity industry faces a massive skills gap. In the UK, the number of vacancies is put at more than 30,000. Worldwide, experts put the shortfall at over three million. And the global pandemic has […]

Special report: Zero Trust

February 23, 2021 admin

Zero Trust promises a way to deal with the limitations of perimeter security. But how does it work, and how practical is it?

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Security and the pandemic: special series

February 1, 2021 admin

Last autumn, Security Insights produced a four-part series on the pandemic, and the challenge it poses to cyber security. We’ve put links to all the episodes here, plus our interview with Amar Singh, from the […]

2020 Year in Review, with CIISec’s Amanda Finch

December 31, 2020 admin

In our End of Year Review, editor Stephen Pritchard discusses 2020’s key trends in information security with Amanda Finch, chief executive of the Chartered Institute of Information Security, CIISec.

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