CrowdStrike published a blog post dated 2026-10-20 announcing that it has achieved the UK National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) Cyber Incident Response (CIR) Enhanced Level assurance. The captured article text contains only site navigation and a list of other blog titles. It has no body text describing the assurance scope, requirements or…
The UK government has scrapped its national digital ID scheme, but officials told the Public Accounts Committee on 20 October 2026 that the underlying identity infrastructure remains in development. Work continues on GOV.UK One Login, the Gov Wallet and the digital identity trust framework, with more than 80 document types earmarked for t…
The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) says existing major-incident reporting rules must extend to significant AI failures and near-misses as financial firms adopt more autonomous, agentic systems. Speaking at Bloomberg's UK Policy Series, FCA chief data, information and intelligence officer Jessica Rusu warned that poorly governed AI c…
This sponsored piece from Zscaler argues that UK public services have reached a cyber resilience inflection point. It cites a new Prime Minister, the scrapping of DSIT, and the redistribution of its cyber and digital functions across Whitehall. Three forces are named: policy raising expectations for boards, organizational reform (Local Go…
A Cisco blog post by Renato Morais compares past landmark threats with the emerging risk from autonomous AI agents, then presents Cisco's agentic security reference architecture. It recounts the ILOVEYOU worm (2000), a social-engineering email worm, and WannaCry (2017), a ransomware worm using EternalBlue against unpatched Windows systems…
This item is a reader comment by Clive Robinson posted under a Schneier on Security entry titled "The Future of AI Cryptanalysis". It does not discuss cryptanalysis and reports no security incident. The commenter discusses UK Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) restrictions on university rocket projects, including limits on flight control and …
Ingram Micro's AWS Greenfield Practice Lead, Lee Robson, previews the company's participation at DTX + UCX London 2026. The company plans to demonstrate AI, cloud and security solutions built on AWS, including AWS Quick, Claude via Amazon Bedrock, FinOps-led cloud optimisation and AWS security assessments. Robson says channel buyers strug…
This is an opinion and event-promotion piece by Louise John, Head of IT Service Delivery at Virgin Active. It offers IT managers advice on handling unexpected projects with tight deadlines, such as a software rollout due in six weeks. The recommendations are to define the essential deliverables, manage expectations with senior leadership,…
Glasgow-based medtech firm Nami Surgical has raised £3.4m in a funding round extension led by £2m from the Scottish National Investment Bank. Existing investors Eos Advisory, Scottish Enterprise and the Investment Fund for Scotland (managed by Maven Capital Partners, delivered by the British Business Bank) also participated. The funds wil…
NVIDIA announced a five-year compute donation worth $250 million ($50 million a year) to strengthen UK research on agentic AI safety and security. Most of the compute will go to the wider UK AI safety and security research community. A share is earmarked for the British Open-Ended Learning and Discovery Lab (BOLD) at the University of Oxf…
Starling is building a transactional foundation model (TFM) with NVIDIA support, which it says is the first banking model trained and hosted in a UK sovereign cloud. The model will run on infrastructure from UK-owned provider Civo and be trained on more than 15 billion anonymised transactions. Starling plans to put it into production in e…
The second CymruSec cross-sector cybersecurity conference takes place on 22 October 2026 at Cardiff City Stadium in Wales. It is a free-to-attend event focused on shared learning, emerging threats, new research, changing adversarial tactics and practical ways to improve resilience and response. Speakers come from organisations including M…
An interview with Jaymie Thomas, Co-founder of AI Wales, urges Welsh SMEs to begin AI adoption with small, measurable projects and not to delay out of fear of falling behind. The article is industry commentary and describes no specific incident, threat actor or vulnerability. Its main security-relevant point is "shadow AI": Deloitte's 202…
Analysis by Bridewell of reports to the UK Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) found more than 26,000 data breaches caused by human error between 2020 and 2025. Annual human-error breaches rose from 3,847 to 5,496 (+43%). The leading cause is data emailed to the wrong recipient (11,214 incidents, up 62% from 1,519 in 2020 to 2,459 in …
Accenture's Tech Talent Tracker reports that UK demand for AI skills rose 51% in six months to nearly 100,000 vacancies. London accounts for 70% of AI-related listings, which points to a regional divide. Overall technology job listings rose 21%, with Manchester (+35%), Bristol (+25%) and Birmingham (+17%) growing fastest outside the capit…
The organizers of DIGIT Expo 2026 released a partial agenda for two stages of Scotland's largest enterprise technology event, to be held on 19 November at the Edinburgh International Conference Centre (EICC). Speakers include representatives from Microsoft, Multiverse, IBM, Skyscanner, Adobe, FanDuel and Wayve. Stage 1 centres on practica…
The UK Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) issued a reprimand and enforcement notice to the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) after officers and staff shared personal information through the unapproved third-party platform Auror without adequate data protection safeguards. The platform was used between March 2023 and September 2024, w…
A Bank of Scotland (Lloyds Banking Group) survey found that 66% of Scottish businesses recruited early careers talent in the past year, and 90% of those expect to hire more in the next year. 89% of Scottish firms are confident they can secure funding for skills investment, the highest in the UK against an 80% national average. Employers c…
CymruSec 2026, billed as Wales' leading cross-sector cyber security event, takes place on Thursday 22 October at Cardiff City Stadium. Final places remain for delegates. The agenda covers the evolving threat landscape, AI-driven cybercrime, identity security, agentic threat hunting and organisational resilience. Speakers come from industr…
This is an interview-based industry feature with no threat activity. Clare Johnson, founder of Women in Cyber Unlimited and Head of Capability at ITSUS Consulting, says that eight years on, greater awareness of gender inequality has not produced meaningful progress in cyber security. The UK Government's Cyber Security Skills in the UK Lab…