Tag: Infosecurity Europe

Infosecurity Europe has announced findings from research into the cybersecurity budgets of organisations, with 69 per cent of surveyed IT decision-makers citing that they have seen, or will see, their cybersecurity budgets increase between 10 and 100 per cent in 2024.

Almost one in five (19 per cent) of those surveyed are seeing or are expecting to see budgets increase between 30 and 49 per cent over the coming year.

Infosecurity Europe’s Advisory Council member Mun Valiji said: “We continue to see pragmatic budgetary spending on cyber security under mounting macroeconomic pressures. The fast-changing threat landscape and tightening regulatory pressures have, in the main, seen security budgets benefiting from much-needed increases, which is positively received.” Read more…

As if there were not enough things going wrong with the world,  Infosecurity Europe was hit by a good old-fashioned train strike.

Each year the event brings more than 13,000 visitors from all around the UK & Europe but last-minute talks with train workers to avoid the strikes broke down and there were 24-hour walkouts by members of the RMT union occurring on Tuesday and Thursday, with 10,000 London Underground staff also striking on Tuesday.

Infosec organisers claimed the event was successful but some vendors reported that numbers were down from what they expected.

Wednesday was very busy given no strikes were going ahead but Tuesday and Thursday were a bit tumbleweed.

Some vendors claimed that the walkouts meant they were unable to capitalise on the event. This was disappointing because vendors spend a fortune on massive booths which was wasted. Read more…

Infosecurity Europe will be running a virtual conference on 12 October in support of Cyber Security Awareness Month 2021, with the Your Part theme.

Conference organisers say that the conference aim is to empower individuals and organisations to play a proactive role in enhancing cybersecurity, with an emphasis on personal accountability. The virtual conference will include more practical and technical discussions

Infosecurity Europe’s October Sessions will provide expert insights and practical knowledge that help businesses equip their people with a better understanding of cybersecurity, and the resources to be safer online. The event will involve a full day of webinars on topics including resilience, insider threat, and cybercrime. Registrations for each of the virtual sessions are now open here. Read more…

Infosecurity Europe, Europe’s big information security event, has announced that it is postponing the live exhibition and conference due to run at London Olympia in July, following the government’s fearless delay in lifting the final COVID-19 restrictions.

Instead, it will deliver a virtual exhibition and conference from 13-15 July 2021, the original dates of the event. The in-person event will now be held in 2022.

This year’s Infosecurity Europe was set to combine both live and online elements. The planned virtual programme will be retained, and further built out with a rich line-up of presentations, talks and discussions. Among the confirmed sessions are: Read more…

Infosecurity Europe is going to return to a physical format on 13-15 July 2021 in its usual venue at Olympia in London.

The event’s organisers, Reed Exhibitions said that there will be a virtual event held between 8-10 June.

Visitor registration for the event opened today, with the first keynote speaker announced as director-general of GCHQ Robert Hannigan.

Infosecurity Group exhibition director, Nicole Mills said: “Infosecurity Europe 2021 will provide one of the first opportunities in over a year for the information and cybersecurity community to come together face-to-face. By making sessions available via Read more…

A lack of expertise is the issue having the greatest negative impact on cyber resilience within small businesses, according to a poll run by  Infosecurity Europe.

More than 41.5 percent of respondents to Infosecurity Europe’s poll were worried about the skills gap with the surge in remote workers driven by COVID-19 lockdowns is the second biggest stumbling block, cited by 34 percent of respondents.

The findings suggest that the need for SMBs to adopt digital ways of working at pace may have significantly increased their cybersecurity risk and vulnerabilities.

The impacts felt by small businesses across the UK as a result of the coronavirus pandemic are estimated to be six times larger than they were during the 2008 recession, according to analysis undertaken by O2 Business and the Centre for Economic Business Research (Cebr). Infosecurity Europe’s poll set out to find out how SMBs are managing to build and invest in cyber resilience – their ability to prepare for, respond to and recover from cyberattacks – and the obstacles they face.

Maxine Holt, Senior Research Director at Omdia said that companies found the need for home workers a problem. Read more…