VC trends point to increased focus on cybersecurity compliance
Venture capital and mid-market private equity firms are focusing on the growing regulatory challenges from cybersecurity and AI, giving indicators about the future direction of the market. According to research for Ocorian, around three out of four (75%) believe cybersecurity compliance issues around data protection will pose the greatest technology-related challenge to their firm over […]
2025: Hypervolumetric attacks surge, non-profits most attacked industry, says Cloudflare
Global internet traffic ballooned by 19% year-over-year in 2025, accompanied by substantial changes and advanced capabilities introduced to AI. At the same time, there were major milestones in security: post-quantum encryption now secures 52% of all human traffic. However, this growth also brought challenges, with a dramatic escalation in cyber warfare leading to more than […]
NETWORK SECURITY MONTH: Securing East–West traffic in an era of cloud sprawl and microservices
As organisations attending the Cyber Secure Forum embrace cloud computing, containerisation and microservices architectures, the shape of the enterprise network has fundamentally changed. Traffic that once flowed clearly north–south (in and out of the perimeter) is now overwhelmingly east–west, moving laterally between workloads, services and applications inside the environment. While this shift has delivered agility […]