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Overconfident and Underprepared: How Cyber Resilience Is Failing the Real-World Test Human history loves a confidence crash. From Icarus to the Titanic, belief often beats reality. Immersive’s 2025 Cyber Workforce Benchmark Report suggests cybersecurity is heading the same way, and the iceberg is already in view. “Organizations aren’t failing to practice; they’re failing to practice … Read more
Vendors Remain the Systemic Nightmare Scenario Cyber insurance still faces its biggest unknown: a major third-party outage hitting thousands of customers at once. On the latest Cyber Insurance News & Information podcast, host and executive editor Martin Hinton talks with Peter Foster, Chairman of Willis’ Global FINEX Cyber Solutions, about that risk. Foster describes a … Read more
The latest UK Government research on national cyber risk opens with a stark warning that sets the tone for the entire report. Officials outline the scale of the threat and link it directly to rising pressure on businesses, regulators, and insurers across the country. “Cyber attacks represent one of the most pressing threats to the … Read more
High-Cost Breaches Raise the Stakes When Marks & Spencer (M&S) announced a cyberattack that will cost about £300 million (~$400 million) and wipe almost £700 million off its market value, the retail world sat up. A week later, Co‑op revealed that a “malicious” cyberattack had hit its profits by £80 million. These headline-grabbing figures show … Read more
Corporate breaches make headlines. Nation-state hacks grab attention. But this battlefield is personal. Bitdefender’s 2025 Consumer Cybersecurity Survey turns the spotlight on individuals, and what it finds is unsettling. Among 7,000 people surveyed worldwide, one in seven fell victim to a scam last year. Fourteen percent lost money or data, often through social media. AI-generated … Read more