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Venafi has announced results of a study of the scale and frequency of certificate-related outages on critical business infrastructure, https://www.venafi.com/blog/majority-businesses-still-experience-outages-are-you-protecting-your-certificates

Over 550 chief information officers (CIOs) from the U.S., U.K., France, Germany and Australia participated.

While humans rely on usernames and passwords to identify themselves and gain authorized access to applications and services, machines use digital certificates to serve as machine identities in order to communicate securely with other machines and gain authorized access to applications and services. Certificate-related outages harm the reliability and availability of vital network systems and services while also being extremely difficult to diagnose and remediate. Unfortunately, the vast majority of businesses routinely suffer from these events.

: THE EDITORIAL TEAM; Talking Point; Posted On Monday, 01 April 2019 11:51

Two Cheshire based unlicensed security operatives pleaded guilty at Crewe Magistrates' Court

An unlicensed door supervisor, and the boss who deployed him with a fraudulent licence, have been convicted of offences under the Private Security Industry Act (PSIA) 2001 and the Fraud Act 2006.

On Tuesday 26 March, Michael Flood of Pulford Road, Winsford, pleaded guilty at Crewe Magistrates' Court to fraudulently amending his Security Industry Authority (SIA) licence. Vance Garner of Stone Manor Lane, Hartford North, also pleaded guilty to supplying two unlicensed door supervisors (including Flood) to The Vaults pub in Middlewich, Cheshire.

: THE EDITORIAL TEAM; Industry News; Posted On Monday, 01 April 2019 11:46

Security Leaders look to the AI to find the needles in Data Lakes

WATERLOO, Ont: BlackBerry Cylance has announced the findings of its global artificial intelligence (AI) security survey, commissioned with the help of the SANS Institute, which highlights that 85% of cybersecurity professionals surveyed believe that AI can improve security, now more than ever, given the vast amounts of available data captured and analyzed in the Internet of Things.

: DAWN NICHOLLS; Case Studies; Posted On Friday, 29 March 2019 12:28

Armour Comms launches Armour Mobile v3.0

London, 26 March 2019: Armour Communications is launching the latest version of its flagship product Armour Mobile at Cyber UK 2019 – the premier annual cyber security event run by the UK’s NCSC (National Cyber Security Centre). In addition, Armour will be demonstrating full integration with Secure Chorus standards, to a live audience, with Leonardo, BAE Applied Intelligence and dstl (Defence Science and Technology Laboratory). The interactive workshop, hosted by NCSC and Secure Chorus takes place on 24 April at 14.00 and is part of Stream G.