EU adopts cyber resilience act – and other cybersecurity news to know this month
The European Union has adopted a new law establishing cybersecurity requirements for products with digital elements, including home cameras, fridges, TVs and toys.
Akshay Joshi is the Head of the World Economic Forum’s Centre for Cybersecurity that seeks to provide an independent and impartial platform to reinforce the importance of cybersecurity as a strategic priority and drive global public-private action to address systemic cybersecurity challenges. Akshay joined the Forum as a Global Leadership Fellow in 2015 and was responsible for strengthening engagement with organisations based in the South Asia before taking on operational leadership of the Centre for Cybersecurity upon its launch. Prior to joining the Forum, he had over a decade of experience in management roles in sectors including maritime transport and public relations.
Akshay holds an Executive Master in Global Leadership from the World Economic Forum, an MBA from the University of Manchester and a Bachelor from the University of Mumbai.
The European Union has adopted a new law establishing cybersecurity requirements for products with digital elements, including home cameras, fridges, TVs and toys.
The US Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, the Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center, and the Department of Health and Hum...
Following July's global IT outage, which affected millions of Windows users, CrowdStrike has released a root cause analysis of the "Channel File 291" incident, explaining the software upd...
On Friday 19 July, over 8.5 million computers were hit in what is being described as one of the worst cyber-incidents in history.
An operation led by the US Justice Department has disrupted a botnet that was used to commit cyber attacks, large-scale fraud, child exploitation, harassment, bomb threats and export viol...
The UK's Ministry of Defence has suffered a major data breach, with personal information of UK military personnel hacked from a third-party payroll system.
Los ciberdelincuentes lanzan una amplia red en busca de objetivos. Todos estamos familiarizados con los intentos de fraude que llegan por SMS, redes sociales, correo electrónico y llamada...
Cybercriminals cast a wide net when they go in search of targets. We're all familiar with scam attempts that arrive by SMS, social media, email and telephone calls, but entire business an...
In late February, the Chinese Ministry of Industry and Information announced a plan to improve data security in the country's industrial sector. The plans aims to effectively negate 'majo...
International law enforcement agencies combined efforts to take down LockBit, a major ransomware organization. On 19 February, the UK's National Crime Agency (NCA), working with the FBI a...
Artificial intelligence (AI) will make it easy for amateur cyber scammers to conduct phishing attacks using fake emails that appear genuine, according to the UK's National Cyber Security ...
Cybersecurity is on the frontline of our AI future, agreed experts at this year's Annual Meeting in Davos. Indeed, a race is afoot between cyber defenders and attackers, the "good guys" a...
Durante 2023, la economía de la ciberseguridad creció cuatro veces más rápido que la economía mundial y superó el crecimiento del sector tecnológico. Esta trayectoria indica un rápido aum...
During 2023, the cybersecurity economy grew four times as fast as its global counterpart and outpaced growth in the tech sector. The growth signals a rapid rise in innovation and opportun...
In March 2023 President Joe Biden released a new National Cybersecurity Strategy, outlining how the US government intends to secure cyberspace and create a resilient digital ecosystem tha...