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VPS only British company to make British Safety Council shortlist

VPS UK Ltd, is celebrating after being cited as a finalist for an internationally-recognised award for a transformative approach to health and safety for its staff.

The British Safety Council International Safety Awards has selected VPS as the only UK representative on its shortlist for organisations that have significantly transformed an aspect of health, safety or wellbeing, through the use of information. The other five companies include a Chinese construction conglomerate, one of the world's Top 500 companies, and a Canadian multinational.

: THE EDITORIAL TEAM; Industry News; Posted On Thursday, 05 May 2022 12:02

Aqua Security research shows nearly 70% of CISOs believe OSS offers a faster path to security

New CISO research reveals perceptions on cloud native security and substantial progress in understanding benefits of open source in security

Aqua Security has ssued new research that shows that nearly 70% of chief information security officers (CISOs) believe open source security solutions provide a faster way to secure their environments. Likewise, 78% of CISOs believe open source solutions provide them with access to the best and most current innovations in cloud security, and more than 60% actively prefer to work with vendors who build open source projects.

: THE EDITORIAL TEAM; Industry News; Posted On Tuesday, 03 May 2022 11:55

DVLA ‘chatbot’ interactions with motorists surge by nearly 1,000% since the start of Covid pandemic

Robots handled over 5m motorist requests in the last year, despite backlog of over 200,000 applicants with medical conditions

The Driving and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA), the UK government department responsible for issuing driving licenses, collecting road tax, and keeping a database of vehicles, has seen customer interactions with its online chatbot service increase by nearly 1,000 per cent between the financial years, 2019-20 - just before the pandemic hit the UK - to the most recent financial year, FY 2021-22.

: THE EDITORIAL TEAM; Industry News; Posted On Tuesday, 03 May 2022 11:52

Media Alert: White paper on the protection of the water sector, and the culture of security necessary to achieve it

Last month, the US government’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) released two significant warnings. The first of these detailed how APT Cyber Tools were reported to be targeting ICS/SCADA Devices, while the second warned of a specific type of Malware – namely, Pipedream – aimed at Industrial Control Systems.

These kinds of ominous directives from CISA relate directly to a recent Whitepaper from Cerberus Sentinel regarding the Water Sector, and Tackling IT-Security Fundamentals. The water sector has long been a target for hackers hoping to take advantage of the rapid digital transformation it has undertaken, with the water supply of Oldsmar in Florida suffering an attempted compromise from a hacker last year. With specific malwares and APT groups’ being mentioned by Federal agencies as real, credible and potentially nation-state tied threats to ICS, including the water sector, the white paper could not be more timely.