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Secure systems, secure data, secure people, secure business<br />
Computing Security <strong>Nov</strong>ember/<strong>Dec</strong>ember <strong>2022</strong><br />
inside this issue<br />
CONTENTS<br />
Computing<br />
Security<br />
UNDER LOCK AND KEY<br />
GDPR breaches are hit<br />
with massive EU fines<br />
OH,WHAT A NIGHT!<br />
NEWS<br />
OPINION<br />
INDUSTRY<br />
COMMENT<br />
CASE STUDIES<br />
PRODUCT REVIEWS<br />
DEEP INSIDE DEEPFAKES<br />
Growing threat<br />
sparks alarm<br />
Computing Security<br />
Awards <strong>2022</strong> celebrate<br />
the best of the best<br />
NO MASKING RANSOMWARE SPIKE<br />
COMMENT 3<br />
Why data ethics matter<br />
Businesses show ‘shocking’<br />
lack of readiness to defend themselves<br />
as attacks soar<br />
NEWS 6 & 8<br />
Bitdefender partners with Ferrari<br />
Ransomware on the rampage<br />
Pulling a FAST one<br />
Data breach cost hits all-time high<br />
Channel 4 steps up safety of data<br />
ARTICLES<br />
THE DATA ETHI<strong>CS</strong> QUEST 15<br />
Annie Machon's book, 'The Privacy<br />
Mission: Achieving Ethical Data for Our<br />
Lives Online', takes readers into a world<br />
where data ethics walks a fragile line<br />
SURVIVING THE SHOCKWAVES 10<br />
To misquote a line from a classic film<br />
and attribute it to the year that’s fast<br />
approaching: 'Fasten your seatbelts, it's<br />
going to be a bumpy 2023!' Computing<br />
Security has been asking those in the know,<br />
for better or worse, what they believe we<br />
might be in store for in those 12 months.<br />
PATH TO SECURITY ASSUREDNESS 18<br />
Paul Harris, managing director at Pentest<br />
AWARDS NIGHT A WIN-WIN-WIN! 16<br />
Limited, shows how confidence can be<br />
What an atmosphere, what an occasion!<br />
your information security secret weapon<br />
The Computing Security Awards <strong>2022</strong>,<br />
held at a top London venue, once again<br />
DYSTOPIAN WORLD OF DEEPFAKES 20<br />
showcased the enormous wealth of talent<br />
Matt Lewis, commercial research director<br />
that exists right across our industry. See all<br />
at NCC Group, considers what threats<br />
of the winners in our 2-page coverage.<br />
‘deepfakes’ might pose, in the wake of<br />
BBC series ‘The Captive’<br />
YOU AND YOUR DATA 22<br />
Nick Evans, GeoLang's sales and marketing<br />
manager, reveals why having a solid<br />
data management plan is so important<br />
RANSOMWARE ON THE RAMPAGE 24<br />
With 24% of businesses identified in recent<br />
GETTING THE BALANCE RIGHT 30<br />
research as having been victims subjected<br />
Mike Nelson, VP of IoT Security at<br />
to an attack, the omens for the year<br />
DigiCert, explains what the EU Cyber<br />
ahead look worrying. What are the latest<br />
Resilience Act means, in the first move<br />
strategies and techniques they can turn to<br />
to legislate cybersecurity for the IoT<br />
that will enable them to fight back?<br />
BUILDING A CAPTIVE AUDIENCE 32<br />
Packets provide the ’only truly definitive<br />
evidence of performance and security<br />
issues’ that happen on a network, states<br />
Mark Evans, VP of marketing, Endace,<br />
REGULATORS MEAN BUSINESS! 38<br />
who argues the case for packet capture<br />
The second largest ever fine for a breach<br />
of the General Data Protection Regulation<br />
THE SLIDE TOWARD DATA CARNAGE 34<br />
was slapped on Instagram recently - 405<br />
A new extortion technique could see<br />
million euros. Will this force organisations<br />
threat actors shift their focus towards<br />
to adopt stricter data management and<br />
leveraging Exmatter, in order to destroy<br />
protection measures going forward?<br />
data, rather than encrypt it, warns Cyderes<br />
computing security <strong>Nov</strong>/<strong>Dec</strong> <strong>2022</strong> @<strong>CS</strong>MagAndAwards www.computingsecurity.co.uk<br />
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