Cyber Security news in the UK | Page 6

An overview of news, trends and research in Cyber Security consulting in the UK:

Cybercrime and crisis insurance products to boom in coming years Insurance against a range of risks in the political risk and crisis management space are set to boom in the coming years, after a period of lacklustre profitability growth within the market.
13 September 2016
M&A due diligence on the rise as acquirers seek to offset cyber risk M&A activity remains at all time highs, with PE firms continuing to leverage their dry powder to pick up firms across the globe.
02 September 2016
Cyber threats continue to rise, top risks for seven industries Cyber criminals are becoming more sophisticated even while more and more of the world’s transactions and intellectual property is being created in a digital space.
23 August 2016
Deloitte opens Cyber Intelligence Centre in The Hague Deloitte in the Netherlands has opened a new Cyber Intelligence Centre in The Hague.
29 July 2016
PwC Advisory buys cybersecurity and privacy consultant Everett PwC has acquired Everett, a consultancy specialised in Identity and Access Management solutions.
28 July 2016
A three-tiered approach for a customer centric view on fraud Criminals target financial institutions because that’s where the money is, says Hugo Löwinger, consultant at Innopay.
21 July 2016
Accenture acquires Israel-based cybersecurity firm Maglan Accenture has acquired Israel-based cybersecurity firm Maglan for an undisclosed sum.
04 July 2016
Kelly Bissell snatched from Deloitte to head Accenture Security Accenture has picked up cyber security expert Kelly Bissell from Deloitte. Bissell will take the helm of Accenture’s Accenture Security business as its Global Managing Director.
27 June 2016
Guy Carpenter and Symantec join forces to develop cyber model In a bid to improve the understanding of risks within a rapidly changing environment, with little historic data, Guy Carpenter and Symantec Corporation have joined forces to develop a cyber aggregation model.
27 June 2016
Bad habits of employees are significant cyber security risk Employees’ bad habits are leaving their employers cyber doors wide open to attack, according to a new study.
20 June 2016
BDO Israel acquires Israeli cybersecurity advisory firm SECOZ BDO Israel has acquired Israeli cybersecurity advisory firm SECOZ for an undisclosed sum. Ophir Zilbiger, the current President of SECOZ as well as its founder and former CEO, joins BDO as Partner.
01 June 2016
Symantec hires AlixPartners to support cost savings transformation Cybersecurity giant Symantec has hired business advisory firm AlixPartners to support its leaders with a large operational excellence transformation, aimed to achieve cost savings of $400 million.
05 May 2016
Elixirr strikes partnership with cyber security firm CyberInt Consulting firm Elixirr has agreed a strategic partnership with CyberInt, an Israeli cyber security firm.
25 April 2016
Internal audit function can bolster cybersecurity frontiers A new report by Protiviti finds that cybersecurity is increasingly finding its way through the ranks of internal audit teams.
16 March 2016
Booz Allen Hamilton hired to support 5 billion CSTAT contract The US Department of Defence has awarded Booz Allen Hamilton a five year contract as part of its wider $5 billion Cyber Security and Information Systems technical area task contract.
16 March 2016
Marsh launces Cyber ECHO: insurance for excess Cybercrime High profile cyber breaches have become more and more common, and can be costly events for the companies involved – sometimes running into the hundreds of millions in losses.
24 February 2016
Orange and Atos partner to ramp up smartphone security Atos and Orange have agreed a strategic alliance aimed at jointly delivering secure smartphone services to clients and customers.
19 February 2016
IBM acquires German fraud detection firm IRIS Analytics IBM has acquired IRIS Analytics, a financial fraud detection company.
10 February 2016
Capgemini launches identity as a service cyber security Cyber security remains a key problem for businesses large and small.
20 January 2016
CSC signs digital security contract with UK Atom Bank Atom Bank will be the UK’s first digital only bank, set to launch later this year, which will provide its services through mobiles.
20 January 2016
UK Generation Z wants more emphasis on cyber security Almost half (43%) of UK’s Generation Z want more focus on fighting cybercrime than on real-world crime, research by PA Consulting Group shows.
28 December 2015
Deloitte supports cyber security MSc programme at DMU The threat to companies from cyber-crime is on the increase.
17 December 2015
US Army awards 1 billion deal to Booz Allen Hamilton The threat from physical and cyber-breaches to both governments as well as private businesses and citizens has increased significantly in recent years, with the risk only expected to continue as more
07 December 2015
PwC: UK businesses still fail to take on cyber security Information security remains a key challenge for businesses around the world, as adversaries become more and more sophisticated.
19 November 2015
PwC partners with cloud security firm Skyhigh Networks PwC has agreed an alliance with Skyhigh Networks, a US-based cloud security company.
16 November 2015
Active defense vital for battling cybersecurity threat Against the backdrop of the growing frequency and impact of cybersecurity, and the uphill battle forecasted to unfold at businesses over the coming years, adopting an active cyber-defense stance is b
11 November 2015
Capgemini to launch security centre in South Wales Capgemini will open a new application delivery centre focused on security related issues, in Treforest, South Wales. The £18.
04 November 2015
IBM and AT&T partner up for mobile cloud security AT&T and IBM have come together to provide a joint cloud-based cyber security offering that aims to improve the security level of mobile devices on corporate networks.
04 November 2015
Marsh: Premium for cybercrime Insurance on the rise The cyber security insurance industry is seeing increased demand as more and more high profile cyber-attacks are embroiling companies in controversy and costing them millions of dollars.
27 October 2015
Gartner: The IoT will change cyber security forever The Internet of Things is set to change the face of cyber security at more than 20% of firms by 2017, research by Gartner shows.
29 September 2015
Indian IT security market reaches 1.2 billion next year Investment in security spending across Indian companies is heading towards the $1.11 billion, an 8.3% rise on the year previous when the market was worth $1.02 billion.
15 September 2015
PwC partners with US based cyber security firm Tanium PwC and IT services firm Tanium signed a strategic alliance to combine PwC’s security expertise with Tanium’s technology. The deal sees PwC introduce new Tanium Accelerators to its Cyber Security Practice in a bid to provide its clients
25 August 2015

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