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Ayrshire College partners with Acumen Cyber to strengthen cyber defences and offer students frontline cyber work experience

Ayrshire College today announced it has partnered with Acumen Cyber, HEFESTIS and Academia to bolster its cyber defences and offer its students unique experience in real-world cyber security operations. Through the collaboration, students will learn about working on the front lines of cyber defence, offering them exciting opportunities to visit Acumen’s state-of-the-art SOC and gain insights into real-world cyber security operations.

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Acumen Cyber launches SecurEd to deliver higher and further Education with sector-specific cyber defences

Acumen Cyber, a CREST accredited cyber security service provider, today announced the launch of SecureEd, a new service built specifically to protect the Higher and Further Education sector from sophisticated cyber threats. SecurEd is a purpose-built managed Security Operations Centre (SOC) service, created by Acumen, in collaboration with HEFESTIS, which can be easily procured in a compliant way through sector-approved

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Acumen Cyber responds to cyber attack on Jaguar Land Rover

It has been announced that the threat actor group Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters has claimed responsibility for the recent cyber attack on Jaguar Land Rover.  The attackers comprise of three groups, Scattered Spider, ShinyHunters and Lapsus$, who have apparently banded together to conduct more attacks on large targets. Here, Nathan Webb, principal consultant at Acumen Cyber, responds

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‘First known AI-powered ransomware’ identified. Acumen Cyber responds

It has been reported that ESET has identified what its researchers are describing as the ‘first known AI-powered ransomware,’ which uses one of OpenAI’s newly released small open-weights models to write Lua scripts on a system for malicious purposes, (see story, here). Here, Nathan Webb, principal consultant at Acumen Cyber, responds to the news. “This is possibly

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Converged and Acumen Cyber respond to UK gov backtrack on backdoor to Apple encryption

It has been reported that the UK government has dropped its demands to create a backdoor into Apple’s encryption. Below, experts at Converged and Acumen Cyber give their responses. Andy McKay, CEO of Converged Communication Solutions, said: “This proposal from the UK government received significant pushback because of its wider implications. While the intention of

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CybaVerse and Acumen Cyber respond to government plans to crack down on cyber criminals

The UK government has announced that hospitals, businesses, and critical services are set to be protected under measures designed to crack down on cyber criminals and safeguard the public, following public consultation on ransomware proposals. Public sector bodies and operators of critical national infrastructure, including the NHS, local councils and schools, would be banned from

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Acumen Cyber responds to news of NCSC Vulnerability Research Initiative

It has been reported that the NCSC has launched a new Vulnerability Research Initiative (VRI) to collaborate with external researchers on software and hardware vulnerabilities. In response to the news, Kevin Robertson, CTO of Acumen Cyber, gives his views. “This initiative sounds promising in theory, but given the NCSC’s track record of largely ineffective and self-serving programmes,

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Edinburgh Napier University selects Acumen Cyber to deliver 24/7 proactive threat detection and response

Edinburgh Napier University (ENU) has announced it has partnered with Acumen Cyber and HEFESTIS to bolster its cyber defences amid a rise in cyber attacks targeting the UK’s higher and further education sector. Through the collaboration, the university will benefit from Acumen’s state-of-the-art, CREST-accredited Security Operations Centre (SOC), providing round-the-clock threat monitoring, detection and response.

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Acumen Cyber – Cyber leaders unite to bolster security across universities & further education

Acumen Cyber, a people-powered CREST accredited cyber security service provider, today announced a new partnership with HEFESTIS, a not-for-profit shared service organisation jointly owned by UK colleges and universities. The partnership has been established to better equip universities and further education colleges with the expertise and market-leading security solutions needed to protect their complex environments and

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Acumen Cyber celebrates landmark year underpinned by growth, success and record threat detection and response

Acumen Cyber, an engineer-powered cyber security service provider, today celebrated its first anniversary as an independent MSSP, a year defined by growth, innovation and record threat detection and response. The event was marked with the official opening of Acumen’s new headquarters at EastWorks, Glasgow, which now hosts the most cutting-edge Security Operations Centre (SOC) to reside

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