We are raising a mighty cyber-shield against the great threats ahead
The MoD is working with GCHQ and the Secret Intelligence Services to push back against digital attacks
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Resilience is proving to be the great challenge of the 21st century. The Covid crisis has shown the huge impact disease outbreaks can have on our lives and economies but tomorrow’s danger could just as easily come from a very high-level cyber-attack.
Cyberspace has transformed all our lives: the way we work, shop, travel and communicate. But our openness and dependence on IT makes us more vulnerable. And our adversaries be they state aggressors, terrorists, criminal gangs or even individuals with a grudge…
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Commander of Strategic Command RUSI conference speech
General Sir Patrick Sanders, Commander of Strategic Command’s speech at the RUSI Strategic Command Conference: Sharpening the UK Defence’s edge in the 2020’s.
From:
26 May 2021 (Transcript of the speech, exactly as it was delivered)
Thank you, Secretary of State and let me add my own welcome to our second annual conference. Fifteen months have passed since we gathered at RUSI on Whitehall for the inaugural Strategic Command conference and it has since been a seminal period for Defence, and for Strategic Command in particular. None of us could have imagined what those 15 months had in store. COVID 19 dominated every aspect of our lives, and Defence was no exception. We’re going to spend most of today focused on the future, but it would be wrong not to dwell briefly on the pandemic and call out the remarkable work that sometimes goes unsung in Strategic Command.
Investment professionals must beware of the cyber risks in portfolios What is city talk?
Rhodri Preece, CFA, is Senior Head of Industry Research for CFA Institute. He is responsible the global research and thought leadership function at CFA Institute, including the Future of Finance, the CFA Institute Research Foundation, the Financial Analysts Journal, and the Enterprising Investor blog.
Large scale cyber-attacks impact is becoming an increasingly important consideration for investment professionals.
Internet security blog posts are usually more at home on the inside pages of IT trade publications than on the front pages of international newspapers. The one published by Microsoft Corporate Vice President Tom Burt on 2 March, about the emergence of “state-sponsored threat actor” Hafnium, was a notable exception.