Leading academic institution successfully blocks ransomware and BEC attacks amidst a barrage of hostile emails
London: The University of Westminster has been targeted with nearly 20,000 malicious emails every month since October 2020, including phishing, business email compromise (BEC) and ransomware attacks, according to official figures.
Nick Mercer joins the team at TDSi’s Poole-based Headquarters to oversee the continued expansion of the company’s digital marketing and to support partners and customers
Poole: TDSi has appointed Nick Mercer as Marketing Manager. Based at the company’s global headquarters in Poole, Dorset, Nick will oversee the overall marketing functions along with enhancing the accessibility of information, enabling customers and partners to enjoy the full benefits of TDSi’s expanding portfolio of integrated security solutions and products.
New Deterministic Protection Platform (DPP) by Virsec Maps Exactly What an Organization’s Software is Supposed to Do and Immediately Stops What it Should Not
San Jose, Calif.: Virsec has announced its Deterministic Protection Platform (DPP), ensuring better protection against all known and unknown threats to software workloads, and reducing threat actor dwell time from minutes to milliseconds, with true protection and runtime observability. Combining the broadest attack coverage and highest accuracy in the industry, DPP by Virsec protects server workloads across the entire runtime stack, eliminating false positives, when deployed on bare metal, virtual machines (VMs), containers, or in the cloud.
By Jason Wakefield, Sales Director, Todd Research
Many event managers and venue owners believe that simply deploying the correct security equipment will keep their staff and visitors safe. However, unfortunately that is not always enough. Operators of X-ray scanners need to know how to properly use a machine, and they must be able to recognise the difference between images of an electronic Christmas card and a potential threat – a skill that requires training. Todd Research, a leader in X-ray scanners, has therefore been offering operator tutorials for several years and, in response to customer demand, it recently added online courses to its services.
To expose official corruption in Nigeria, re-orientate the psyche of Nigerians and usher in the Nigerian renaissance
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