Next week’s RANT Forum will certainly feature one of the hottest topics in the IT security industry right now, as Sarb Sembhi, director of IncomingThought and chair of the ISACA GRA-SC3, will be presenting a talk on the EU Data Protection Regulation as well as other areas such as the state of the privacy policy […]

  The role of the cyber security professional may be among the most demanding in the modern business world. The type of personality who will function best in the job seems to be one that is confident and forthright, yet able to quickly admit to their own limitations. “A good CISO will say, ‘I don’t […]

The revelations that have been hitting the web and the newsstands since June, when the first stories written from the documents former NSA contractor Edward Snowden leaked to The Guardian were published, continue to shock. Many readers, in the US and the UK particularly, have been at best surprised and at worst outraged to discover […]

Being an information-security professional is a bit like being a goalkeeper in a football team: you can play a blinder all day but if you make just one mistake and your team concedes a goal, that’s all that anyone will remember. If your job is to defend your network from a vast array of threats, […]

The dangers of phishing and social-engineering attacks are well known and understood by businesses, NGOs and public bodies, so why are they still effective? And what if there was a way to use the same psychological pivots attackers use, and improve cyber security? Well, those attending this month’s RANT Forum in London are about to find out just […]

by Angus Batey Every day, I check my bank accounts online. Every time I check, my bank is encouraging me to send it Tweets. So every day I find myself wondering whether I am the only one of their customers to find this bordering on insane. The social-media revolution has changed the way all companies […]

Acumin has been running its monthly RANT events for the last seven years and it all started from humble beginnings. IT forums are nothing new, but when attending the ones available at the time, Acumin founder and managing director Simon Hember and the team noticed the real value in these gatherings was found afterwards in […]

Every year, Acumin collates information gleaned from placements they’ve made across the information-security sector, and publishes the results as their Salary Index. The key takeaway from the latest of their surveys is that, for the right people, salaries continue to rise. The reasons are several, but hardly complicated: this is an industry where the demand […]