Simon Mullis

All global organisations are now responsible for preserving and maintaining the privacy of clients, employees and other forms of business-critical data. Governments and regulators are also mandating organisations to implement best-practice encryption, with financial ramifications for data leaks. This has subsequently driven a massive uptake in end-to-end encryption to ensure compliance and the support of customer data privacy while in transit and at rest. TLS 1.3 – the current standard that ensures strongly encrypted communications – is now widely by 62% of the top 1,000 internet websites. Nevertheless, some aspects of applying strong encryption are poorly understood – and this…

High-profile, global events are always likely to create cybersecurity concerns – and the Olympic Games is no exception. During the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics, the NTT Corporation – which provided its services for the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games – revealed it successfully blocked over 450 million attempted cyber security related incidents during the event. And there were concerns of similar cyber events ahead of this year’s Beijing Winter Olympics. Let us be clear that the 450 million blocked attempts were those that were detected. It stands to reason that the real number was higher as there will have…