Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

Trust is critical to the success of every business. But building, scaling and demonstrating trust is getting harder for UK organisations. ‍ Vanta’s second annual UK State of Trust Report uncovers key trends across these areas of security, compliance and the future of trust. Surveying 1,000 business and IT leaders in the UK, our research found that more than half (54%) of UK organisations say that security risks for their business have never been higher. ‍

In today’s fast-paced cybersecurity landscape, CISOs (Chief Information Security Officers) face an undeniable reality: they simply cannot oversee every detail of their security operations. With expanding attack surfaces, regulatory pressures, and the need for 24/7 vigilance, micromanagement is neither sustainable nor effective. Instead, modern CISOs must master the art of delegation while maintaining control—an intricate balancing act akin to a Michelin-starred chef running a high-end kitchen.

You’re sitting in your office, staring at a screen filled with data. Customer information, financial records, sensitive business intel – it’s all there, flowing through your systems like digital lifeblood. That data, however, isn’t just sitting behind your firewall anymore. It’s zipping across cloud platforms, being crunched by AI models, and shared with partners across the globe. Welcome to the new reality of data security.

If your website is targeting multiple states or countries, by default, you face a double-pronged challenge: adapting to regional regulatory demands while defending against sophisticated cyber threats. Tackling this requires localization. But what does the term actually entail? Localization isn’t just about tailoring products, services, and infrastructure to meet local market requirements; it has emerged as a critical tool for compliance and cybersecurity threat mitigation.

Critical infrastructure organizations bear an enormous responsibility. The assets, systems, and networks they manage are crucial to the functioning of a healthy society. They provide water, energy, transportation, healthcare, telecommunications, and more—should they fail, they would bring entire countries to their knees. The vast importance of Critical National Infrastructure (CNI) makes it a prime target for cybercriminals.

In this day and age, data privacy and data protection are top of mind, for very good reasons. Keeping data safe isn’t just a good business practice, it’s an imperative for businesses around the world, since many governments are requiring data privacy and protection as a part of doing business in their jurisdictions. At 11:11 Systems, our commitment to data privacy and protection isn’t just a part of what we provide, it’s part of what we do internally as a business.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly transforming industries, but with this innovation come new security challenges as threat actors explore AI’s powerful capabilities. They’re adopting new techniques, targeting AI models, injecting malicious code into AI processes, and exploiting vulnerabilities in AI-related software packages.

Virtualization offers several advantages for backup and recovery operations, which are the backbone of data protection, operational continuity, and availability. Most importantly, virtualization makes agentless and image-based, host-level backups possible. These types of backups can capture the full VM, including VM configuration as well as VM data. However, it’s important to protect hosts too, as healthy ESXi hosts are important for VMs to run properly.

WatchGuard has been named Leader in the latest G2 Grid Report and honored with the TrustRadius Buyer’s Choice and Top-Rated Awards. To this, we now add that WatchGuard Network Security, WatchGuard AuthPoint, WatchGuard Endpoint Security have been approved for the Trusted Seller verification!