Majority of UK businesses expect a cyberattack within a year
70% of UK business leaders expect to suffer a cybersecurity incident in the next 12 months, but only 35% of organisations feel well prepared to deal with one. That’s according to new research from Cloudflare, which polled over 4,000 business and technology leaders across Europe and 430 in the UK, finding that almost half (48%) of […]
Executive leaders ‘struggling to prioritise sustainable IT initiatives’
Some of the most cost-effective sustainable IT initiatives currently have less than a 30% adoption rate by organisations, according to a new survey by Gartner. The survey was conducted in the fourth quarter of 2023 to assess the actions and impact of IT to reduce greenhouse gas emissions within IT and the enterprise. In total, […]
Sustainability monitoring high on CIO agenda for cloud environments
Fifty percent of organisations will adopt sustainability-enabled monitoring by 2026, to manage energy consumption and carbon footprint metrics for their hybrid cloud environments, according to a poll of CIOs conducted by Gartner. This is in response to pressure from investors, customers, regulators and governments, which is forcing organizations to adopt carbon neutrality and net zero […]
Questions raised as to whether US government agencies can implement zero trust policies in short-term
75% of U.S. federal agencies will fail to implement zero trust security policies by 2026 due to funding and expertise shortfalls. That’s according to Gartner, which defines zero trust as a security paradigm that starts from the baseline of trusting no end user, and explicitly identifies users and grants them the precise level of access […]
Financial sector subject to cyber attack ‘death by a million cuts’
BlackBerry’s Global Threat Intelligence Report states that threat actors focusing efforts on targeting high-value data held by the global financial sector, with one million attacks logged over the 120 day period. This “death by a million cuts” is revealed to be using mainly commodity malware, which indicates a large number of independent actors targeting the […]
30% of increasing demand for APIs will come from AI and LLM
More than 30% of the increase in demand for application programming interfaces (APIs) will come from AI and tools using large language models (LLMs) by 2026, according to Gartner. “With technology service providers (TSPs) leading the charge in GenAI adoption, the fallout will be widespread,” said Adrian Lee, VP Analyst at Gartner. “This includes increased […]
Is defensive AI the key to guarding against emerging cyber threats?
Google’s recent announcement of an artificial intelligence (AI) Cyber Defense Initiative to enhance global cybersecurity underscores the importance of defending against increasingly sophisticated and pervasive cyber threats. And according to analysts at GlobalData, AI will play a pivotal role in collecting, processing, and neutralising threats, transforming the way organisations combat cyber risks. Looking at AI […]
Are these the top cybersecurity trends for 2024?
Generative AI (GenAI), unsecure employee behaviour, third-party risks, continuous threat exposure, boardroom communication gaps and identity-first approaches to security are the driving forces behind the top cybersecurity trends for 2024, according to Gartner. “GenAI is occupying significant headspace of security leaders as another challenge to manage, but also offers an opportunity to harness its capabilities to augment security at […]
IT Services will be largest recipient of CIO spending in 2024
Global IT spending is expected to total $5 trillion in 2024, an increase of 6.8% from 2023, down from the previous quarter’s forecast of 8% growth – and while generative AI (GenAI) had significant hype in 2023, it will not significantly change the growth of IT spending in the near-term. That’s according to new analysis […]
Threat Predictions for 2024: Chained AI and CaaS operations give attackers more ‘easy’ buttons
With the growth of Cybercrime-as-a-Service (CaaS) operations and the advent of generative AI, threat actors have more “easy” buttons at their fingertips to assist with carrying out attacks than ever before. By relying on the growing capabilities in their respective toolboxes, adversaries will increase the sophistication of their activities. They’ll launch more targeted and stealthier […]
