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Always-on resilience marks a shift in cybersecurity thinking

Ian Wood, Senior Director Sales Engineering, Northern Europe Commvault, talks through the highlights of the recent Commvault SHIFT event, which included the launch of Cloud Rewind, which gives cloud-first organisations a secret weapon to transform their cyber resilience capabilities, the availability of the Commvault Cloud cyber resilience platform on AWS and an expanded relationship with Google Cloud. Ian also discusses the findings of Commvault’s recent Cyber Recovery Readiness Report, contrasting the approaches of the most cyber-resilient organisations with those which are less well-prepared to deal with a security breach.

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The pill(a)r approach underpinning OpenText’s cybersecurity success

Steven Wood, Director, Solution Consulting (EMEA), OpenText Cybersecurity, discusses the results of the company’s recent Cybersecurity Global Managed Security survey, with AI, automation and integration very much in focus; before explaining how the company’s Pillr acquisition and its focus on key cyber resilience pillars is delivering a first class, composable cybersecurity platform for MSPs and MSSPs alike.

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Skills shortage threatens cybersecurity progress

Alain Sanchez, EMEA CISO, Fortinet, discusses the findings of the company’s recent Global Cybersecurity Skills Gap Report that highlights the critical need for a collaborative, multi-faceted approach to closing the skills gap. Alain explains how, to effectively mitigate risk and combat today’s complex threats, organisations must employ a strategic combination of leveraging the right security technology, upskilling existing security professionals through training and certifications, and fostering a cyber-aware workforce.

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The opportunity of cyber risk management

Gartner’s leading cybersecurity analysts, Michael Kranawetter and Jie Zhang, discuss the findings of two recent research reports – the Hype Cycle for Cyber-Risk Management, 2024 and the Hype Cycle for Security Operations, 2024. They share brilliant insights into some of the key topics and trends highlighted, including AI in cyber risk management, SaaS security posture management, Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM), data security governance and Cybersecurity Program Performance Management (CPPM). Gie and Michael also discuss the increasing importance of aligning cybersecurity strategies with business objectives.

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World Quantum Readiness Day focuses on futureproofing cybersecurity

Dr. Avesta Hojjati, VP of Engineering at DigiCert, explains the thinking behind the creation of the first ever World Quantum Readiness Day – detailing the very real threat that quantum computing could compromise existing cryptographic algorithms used to secure data and the need for organisations to adopt a proactive stance on quantum readiness to safeguard against potential attacks.

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AI and cybersecurity – a marriage made in heaven or hell?

Dennis Xu, VP Analyst, KI Leader, Gartner, discusses the coming together of AI and cybersecurity – in particular the rapid evolution of generative AI and its likely impact on cybersecurity – providing some valuable, actionable insights for navigating the GenAI hype to create real value. Dennis also comments on the need for organisations to reconsider their cyber resilience strategies in the wake of the recent Crowdstrike incident.

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Dealing with downtime costs

James Hodge, GVP & Chief Strategy Advisor at Splunk, discusses the findings of the company’s recent ‘Hidden Costs of Downtime’ report – which identifies not just the financial cost of downtime - $400 billion annually – but also the damage done to shareholder value, brand reputation, innovation velocity and customer trust. The report also identifies a group of resilience leaders, and James shares the strategies which these organisations deploy to minimise downtime occurrences and their impact.

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AI-powered cybersecurity protection

Henrik Davidsson, Head of MSSP Sales EMEA, Check Point Software, explains how the company’s Infinity Platform delivers AI-powered and cloud-delivered threat prevention across the network, cloud and workspace, before outlining the powerful partner proposition – how MSPs and MSSPs can distinguish themselves in the busy cybersecurity marketplace.

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Cynomi brings vCISO to Europe

David Primor, CEO of Cynomi, explains that the company is is now offering its vCISO (virtual chief information security officer) platform for MSPs and MSSPs to European based clients while ensuring data remains in Europe. David outlines the platform’s features, the growing number of compliance frameworks supported (including GDPR, DORA, NIS2, NIST-CSF, ISO-27001 and SOC2) and the company’s plans for the future.

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Faster, simpler and more secure authentication

Jonathan Craymer, FRSA, President & Founder, Shayype Solutions Ltd, discusses the problems with many if not all of the current authentication technologies and solutions available on the market, before explaining how the Shayype authentication engine has been developed to take the one time passcode to the next, secure level. Jonathan believes that users deserve better than the current authentication offerings, and is confident that Shayype should be a key pillar of any organisation’s comprehensive authentication strategy.

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Towards faster, simpler and more secure authentication

Jonathan Craymer, FRSA, President & Founder, Shayype Solutions Ltd, discusses the problems with many if not all of the current authentication technologies and solutions available on the market, before explaining how the Shayype authentication engine has been developed to take the one time passcode to the next, secure level. Jonathan believes that users deserve better than the current authentication offerings, and is confident that Shayype should be a key pillar of any organisation’s comprehensive authentication strategy.

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GenAI looms large on the cybersecurity landscape

James Hodge, GVP & Chief Strategy Advisor at Splunk and a member of TechUK AI Committee, discusses the findings of the recent “State of Security 2024: The Race to Harness AI” global research report – in particular, the impact of GenAI on cybersecurity – both the good and the bad.

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Gap opens up between digital trust leaders and laggards

Mike Nelson, Global VP of Digital Trust at DigiCert, discusses the findings of the company’s 2024 State of Digital Trust Survey, explaining that digital trust leaders enjoy higher revenue, better digital innovation and higher employee productivity, are better prepared for the post-quantum world and well positioned to take advantage of the benefits of IoT. Mike also explains how organisations outside the leaders’ group can set about improving their digital trust posture.

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Full speed ahead!

Zeki Turedi, Field CTO Europe, Crowdstrike, discusses the findings of the 2024 Crowdstrike Global Threat Report, with the big increase in attack velocity perhaps the most significant trend. Zeki also covers security and the cloud, the good and the bad when it comes to AI and explains how a platform approach to cybersecurity can provide the optimum solution in terms of both preventing attacks and mitigating the impact of security incidents.

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