A TechTV Live Cybersecurity Update with Bill Mew and Pete Warren. Today they are joined by Gary Cox, Senior Technical Manager for UK and Ireland at Infoblox. They highlight the main issues:

1) The explosion in cyber attacks – What has been behind the recent spate of cyberattacks? Are we seeing a massive escalation? And is this leading up to something potentially far larger?

2) What are the cyber attack trends – Over the past two weeks there have been over six cyber incidents. In the latest it has been revealed that court and NHS data has been attacked

3) Govtech defence in the UK – How nation states and criminal gangs target the British government’s gov.uk site – and how the Cabinet Office protects it from hijack and impersonation

4) Change in mindset required – Threat actors initiate attacks days to months before infiltration, but most security teams are focused on the last 60 mins of the attack chain – when the payload lands. This mindset needs to change as actors increase sophistication and intensity