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29 June 2022 Chanj Grewal
Growth in demand for risk management
Operational resilience can be managed effectively when financial organisations are equipped with the analytical tools to mitigate risk.Read full article...
27 June 2022 Kurt Haller
Next generation of US federal compliance standards
The United States is completing development of a new generation of high-security encryption federal standards that will be robust in the current technical...
24 June 2022 Chanj Grewal
Does your organisation meet it's internal encryption standards?
With today’s greater connectivity between businesses, there’s an increasing disconnect between what we need to know, and what we do know about the standards...
22 June 2022 Bryan Littlefair
Advanced Data Encryption
Organisations want the reassurance that they can adapt effortlessly to enhanced data encryption for financial services.Click link to read full article by The...
15 June 2022 Chanj Grewal
The role of encrypted traffic analysis
Hiten Mistry CRO at Venari Security, speaks with teiss about an emerging method of identifying and detecting suspicious behaviour hidden in #encrypted...
14 June 2022 Kurt Haller
How can governments and organisations build cyber security into the development of regulation?
Paddy McGuinness Advisor at Venari Security and former UK Deputy National Security Adviser for Intelligence, Security and Resilience, shares his view with...
09 June 2022 Simon Mullis
What's next for GDPR?
In a recent article published by Professional Security Magazine, Hiten Mistry CRO at Venari Security, discusses why GDPR has introduced a new challenge for...
10 June 2022 Simon Mullis
Why Data Encryption Changes Everything
To meet law firms’ internal and regulatory standards, almost all data is #encrypted from end to end.Understanding the presence of a risk, and the level of...
05 May 2022 Mike Rebeiro
Why Data Encryption Changes Everything
Today, more than ever, law firms are in possession of large amounts of data. To meet internal and regulatory standards, almost all data is encrypted from end to end. Understanding the presence of risks and the level of compliance becomes impossible to measure in real-time. In effect, the environments of legal firms are more distributed, existing on cloud or third-party networks. Even fourth-party, or fifth-party, all have shared access that uses encrypted data for communication, as do IoT devices such as smart TVs, printers, surveillance cameras, or any other device using encryption.
07 June 2022 Kurt Haller
The Fourth Industrial Revolution
The global workforce is undergoing a massive technological shift that many are calling the “Fourth Industrial Revolution.” According to a recent report by...
06 June 2022 Chanj Grewal
A resiliency strategy has become necessary for organisations today
Enterprises don’t know what’s happening in their encrypted environment, says a recent EU report. The rapid growth of digital transformation and an increase...
01 June 2022 Chanj Grewal
Celebrating the Queen's Jubilee
The next few days will provide an opportunity for communities throughout the UK to come together and celebrate this historic milestone.Venari Security wish...
30 May 2022 Chanj Grewal
Make operational resilience a key discipline
Operational resilience can be managed effectively only by an integrated risk management. It needs to be a key discipline, not just a marketing bolt-on.Click...
25 May 2022 Chanj Grewal
GDPR 4th Anniversary
Today marks the fourth anniversary of the implementation of the General Data Protection Regulation Act (GDPR) #gdpr was designed to ensure the privacy of...
24 May 2022 Chanj Grewal
Meet Tom Millar, CEO at Encrypted Traffic Analysis Platform: Venari Security
Our CEO and founder Tom Millar speaks with TechRound about why Venari Security is committed to making today’s encrypted world more secure and compliant....
23 May 2022 Hiten Mistry
Encrypted data is good for you
Almost all data is encrypted from end to end. That’s a good thing. Venari Security is here to make today’s encrypted world more secure and compliant. Some...
20 May 2022 Simon Mullis
Long-term operational resilience includes security planning
With today’s greater connectivity between companies, there’s an increasing disconnect between what we need to know, and what we do know. Scenario planning...
18 May 2022 Chanj Grewal
Venari Security Townhall
It was great to see the full Venari Security team yesterday at our monthly Town Hall meeting. These sessions are a priceless way of bringing everyone...
13 May 2022 Simon Mullis
Ensuring Positive Security
Simon Mullis CTO at Venari Security has appeared in a few publications this week, commenting on the importance of Privacy Awareness Week. An annual initiative that brings organisations together to highlight the importance of protecting personal information and navigating the privacy landscape.
05 May 2022 Chanj Grewal
World Password Day
At Venari Security our sole purpose is to make the encrypted world more secure and compliant and today marks the ninth anniversary of World Password Day. For...
27 April 2022 Kurt Haller
We bridge the knowledge gap
In recent years and years to come, organisations regardless of industry will face challenges around monitoring encrypted traffic on their internal network,...
26 April 2022 Chanj Grewal
The future of cyber security...
This could very well be what the future of cyber security looks like. Sincere thanks to the bright young minds at the University of Oxford who joined the...
22 April 2022 Kurt Haller
Encryption is good understanding the encrypted traffic on your network is even better
In a recent report published by Google, the technology giant states that 85% to 95% of internet traffic is now encrypted. The growing adoption of encryption...
14 April 2022 Hiten Mistry
Establishing Positive Security
Today one of the most important challenges for a business is that they no longer know what's happening on their network. To meet internal and regulatory...
12 April 2022 Chanj Grewal
Venari Partnership with Oxford University
As part of our 3-year partnership, Venari Security are excited to announce they will be speaking at the University of Oxford on Monday the 25th of April.The...
12 February 2022 Hiten Mistry
Venari Security's Clocks
At Venari Security's new Centre of Excellence, we have 6 clocks that represent the time of 6 cities globally. The cities and clocks hung in our office reflect the top cities (and countries) most greatly impacted by ransomware and cyber attacks in 2021...
11 February 2022 Simon Mullis
Venari Security's New Innovative Centre of Excellence
Venari Security's new Centre of Excellence will be home to more than 20+ data scientists, cyber analysts, and software developers, with plans to double the...
10 February 2022 Simon Mullis
Tunis Centre Of Excellence
At Venari Security, we’re proud to be the only company in the world that specialises in encrypted traffic analysis. Our new Centre of Excellence pays tribute...
31 January 2022 Simon Mullis
A tough but firm reality: cybercriminals are only getting smarter
Data Privacy Day swept the cybersecurity world last Friday. Top experts from several different sectors, including data analytics, fraud prevention and cloud...
20 January 2022 Kurt Haller
Cyber Security Predictions for 2022 and Beyond
CYBER SECURITY PREDICTIONS … 2022 AND BEYOND ACCORDING TO CHECKPOINT SOFTWARE 1.) Cyber-cold war to intensify. Improved infrastructure and technological...
19 January 2022 Tom Millar
How Microsoft is partnering to create top cyber talent
In late 2021, Microsoft announced that they will now be working with United States-based community colleges to help fill the cyber security gap. Through this...
04 January 2022 Matt Pye
Happy New Year Venari Security community!
According to the Chinese Zodiac, we are entering the Year of the Tiger 🐅 The Tiger is meant to represent strength, bravery, and courage. According to...
29 December 2021 Kurt Haller
Key highlights from 2021
As 2021 comes to a close, Venari Security reflects on all of the momentous things that occurred throughout the year:Venari Security launched as a company...
21 December 2021 Kurt Haller
Will the new 007 have a "licence to hack?"
The world of espionage has radically changed. Many countries, such as Russia, now use Nation-State Actors as their new way of retrieving confidential...
07 December 2021 Kurt Haller
City of Dallas Hacked
"The idea of 'smart cities' is no longer something from a science fiction movie, but rather a reality in which most of us are living, at least to some...
29 November 2021 Hiten Mistry
Will smart cities have smart cyber security practices?
Technical Director of the United Kingdom’s National Cyber Security Centre, Ian Levy, said in a recent blog “we need to ensure we address the cyber security...
26 November 2021 Elliot Gidley
Day 4 of benefits and drawbacks of TLS 1.3 - Security Vendor Challenge
TLS 1.3 BENEFITS AND DRAWBACKS OVER EARLIER TLS VERSIONS4. Security Vendor Challenge - Security vendors are also blind to TLS 1.3 payload/data meaning that...
25 November 2021 Elliot Gidley
Day 3 of benefits and drawbacks of TLS 1.3 - Organisation Challenge
TLS 1.3 BENEFITS AND DRAWBACKS OVER EARLIER TLS VERSIONS3. Organisation Challenge - As the server-side certificate is encrypted in TLS 1.3 with perfect...
24 November 2021 Elliot Gidley
Day 2 of benefits and drawbacks of TLS 1.3 - Security
TLS 1.3 BENEFITS AND DRAWBACKS OVER EARLIER TLS VERSIONS2. Security - TLS 1.3 is more secure than previous versions, as it makes it almost impossible to do...
23 November 2021 Elliot Gidley
Day 1 of benefits and drawbacks of TLS 1.3 - Performance
TLS 1.3 BENEFITS AND DRAWBACKS OVER EARLIER TLS VERSIONS1. Performance - TLS 1.3 uses fewer parts of the Cipher Suite over previous versions of TLS and...
22 November 2021 Elliot Gidley
TLS…TLS…TLS…TLS
Venari Security is kicking off this week with the 4 top benefits and drawbacks of the newest version of TLS over others. Stay tuned each day this week for...
19 November 2021 Kurt Haller
40% and growing...
"In a survey conducted in late 2018, of 249 IT and IT security respondents in organizations primarily serving North America, 40% say they were already...
17 November 2021 Elliot Gidley
Why is TLS 1.3 the new way forward?
Amongst many technical differences, TLS 1.3 version offers three major upgrades that are quite critical to an ordinary user. These advantages are:- Increased...
15 November 2021 Kurt Haller
More devices results in more risk
"Homes of today are filled with numerous different connected IoT devices, many of which have known security vulnerabilities and potentially exposing...
12 November 2021 Kurt Haller
Balance between individual rights and state's responsibility...
“When addressing encryption in criminal investigations, the right balance needs to be struck between individual’s rights, i.e. the right to privacy, and a...
10 November 2021 Kurt Haller
Greatest shift in data privacy than ever before 🤯
According to Gartner, there has been more change in relation to data privacy now in comparison to the past few decades combined. Regulations like GDPR, CCPA,...
08 November 2021 Kurt Haller
More than 90% of Q2 malware was hidden in encrypted traffic
MORE THAN 90% OF Q2 MALWARE WAS HIDDEN IN ENCRYPTED TRAFFICAs stated in Dark Reading, "A study of threat activity conducted by WatchGuard Technologies using...
05 November 2021 Kurt Haller
Do you have a keen interest in compliance?... and podcasts?
Over the past couple of weeks, a lot of our social posts have touched upon the topic of compliance. Mary Shirley and Lisa Fine have a PHENOMENAL podcast...
03 November 2021 Kurt Haller
3rd party applications taking information for nearly 2 years undetected
According to Bleeping Computer, "In 2019 the UpGuard Cyber Risk team found more than 540 million records of Facebook users were exposed by publicly...
01 November 2021 Kurt Haller
Median organisation contracts with 5,000+ 3rd parties
The number of 3rd parties is growing at an alarmingly fast rate. In a recent report by Gartner, the median organisation contracts with 5,000 3rd parties....
28 October 2021 Kurt Haller
Compliance Factors Result in much Higher Data Breach Costs
Compliance failures was the top factor found to amplify data breach costs. Organisations with a high level of compliance failures (resulting in fines,...
20 October 2021 Kurt Haller
What organisations are prone to 3rd party attacks?
As of 2021, the financial services industry was one of the top 3 industries targeted by cybercriminals. By definition, financial institutions are the most...
18 October 2021 Kurt Haller
3rd Party vulnerabilities are being exploited
According to a recent Gartner report, the majority of data breaches and cyberattacks exploit third-party cyber gaps. The report found that in 2019, 44% of...
15 October 2021 Kurt Haller
Paranoid... maybe not
It is reported that when backup dancers are performing in the filming of Taylor Swift's music videos, they are not performing to the actual track that will...
15 September 2021 Kurt Haller
Hacked a £4.8 billion-pound Company to Impress Friends?
In 2016, a 17-year-old boy admitted that he had a desire to show off his IT skills to his friends. This led him to use hacking software (SQL Map) to scan...
13 October 2021 Kurt Haller
$180 per record cost of personally identifiable information (PII)
When involving a data breach, customer personally identifiable information (PII) was the most common type of record lost or stolen, resulting in 44% of...
20 September 2021 Kurt Haller
What is Ransomware?
Ransomware is a type of malware attack characterized by holding device control--and therefore locally stored data--for a ransom, which victims typically pay...
17 September 2021 Kurt Haller
Who is at the Heart of Cybersecurity?
People are at the heart of cyber security...to protect their finances, their jobs, their identities, and sometimes even their physical safety. People can...
13 September 2021 Kurt Haller
When Life Gives you Lemons...
We're starting the week with a bit of security humour. In 1995, a man by the name of MacArthur Wheeler was arrested after trying to rob a bank in Pittsburgh,...
11 September 2021 Kurt Haller
The Last and Final Day of the Key Challenge of the Week
We are kicking off the weekend with the final issue modern enterprises are regularly faced with in 2021: Rise in Encrypted Traffic and Threats.5 years ago...
10 September 2021 Kurt Haller
Day 4 of the Key Challenge of the Week: Internal and Regulatory Compliance
How many devices do you own? Smartphone? Laptop? Tablet? Smart TV? Wireless Printer? The amount of devices is endless, which brings us to the 4th key...
09 September 2021 Kurt Haller
Day 3 of #TheKeyChallengeoftheWeek: Adoption of Cloud
PARENT: "Where is my data being stored?" ME: "It's in the cloud." PARENT: "What's the cloud?" 🤦🏼♂️If you're like any of the members of the...
08 September 2021 Kurt Haller
Day 2 of the Key Challenge of the Week: Digital Transformation
We are now on the second day of #TheKeyChallengeoftheWeek. How many of you have recently undergone a digital transformation? 🙋🏽♀️ For those...
07 September 2021 Kurt Haller
Day 1 of the Key Challenge of the Week: Issues Around Privacy
We are kicking off this Tuesday with the first issue modern enterprises are regularly faced with in 2021: Issues around Privacy. The world is only becoming...
06 September 2021 Kurt Haller
Key Challenges of the Week
Each day this week we will be sharing key challenge(s) security teams and risk officers face in the modern enterprise: 1. Issues Around Privacy 2. Adoption...
27 August 2021 Kurt Haller
Ransomware Damage 57x Greater than in 2015
"The latest forecast is for global ransomware damage costs to reach $20 billion by 2021 — which is 57X more than it was in 2015."As the cost of cybercrime...
24 August 2021 Kurt Haller
3X MORE NETWORKED DEVICES ON EARTH THAN HUMANS
According to a report by Cisco, by 2023, there will be 3X more networked devices on Earth than humans. And by 2022, 1 trillion networked sensors will be...
23 August 2021 Kurt Haller
Fined €20 million or 4% of global turnover for failing to comply with regulatory frameworks
Compliance and regulatory frameworks are constantly evolving to ensure that organisations maintain data privacy. Many, if not most, regulators stipulate that...
20 August 2021 Kurt Haller
Urgent Message to Executives
URGENT MESSAGE TO EXECUTIVES CSC has an urgent message for the boardroom and C-suite executives: "The status quo in cyberspace is unacceptable." Gartner has...
20 August 2021 Kurt Haller
Security teams will lose network visibility in the next 2 years
Has your business recently experienced a digital transformation? If so, cybersecurity should be at the forefront of your business given that many devices...
18 August 2021 Kurt Haller
Cybercrime prosecution is estimated to be as low as 5%
According to the World Economic Forum’s 2020 Global Risk Report, "Organized cybercrime entities are joining forces, and their likelihood of detection and...
17 August 2021 Kurt Haller
Bigger Threat than Nuclear Weapons
Billionaire businessman and philanthropist Warren Buffet calls cybercrime the number one problem with mankind and cyberattacks a bigger threat to humanity...
12 August 2021 Kurt Haller
What are the Experts Saying?!
Accredited analysts such as Forester have stated the following with regards to the adoption of TLS 1.3, "Prepare today for a future where all network traffic...
11 August 2021 Kurt Haller
Global Cybercrime Costs Expected to Reach $10.5 trillion USD Annually by 2025
According to Cybersecurity Ventures, "Global cybercrime costs expect to grow by 15% per year over the next five years, reaching $10.5 trillion USD annually...
10 August 2021 Kurt Haller
More IoT Devices = More Risk
As companies continue to embark on extensive digital transformation journeys, all IoT devices are becoming IP enabled resulting in fragile and complex...
09 August 2021 Kurt Haller
Threat Detection - Stay a Step Ahead of Cybercriminals
In a recent white paper written by Venari Security CISO and former Vodafone CISO, Bryan Littlefair, stated "...encrypted traffic flow provides the perfect...
06 August 2021 Kurt Haller
60% of organisations fail to decrypt HTTPS efficiently missing critical encrypted threats
In an ever-changing world, attackers have become more sophisticated using encryption to disguise their malicious malware and ransomware. Cisco stated that...
05 August 2021 Kurt Haller
Purpose-Driven Company Looking to Make their Technology Accessible to Businesses Large and Small
At Venari Security, our mission is to make our world-class encrypted traffic analysis technology accessible to businesses large and small. We do this through...
04 August 2021 Kurt Haller
Encryption has Been Around for Thousands of Years
Encryption...is often assumed to be so entwined with computers that we forget that this cornerstone of cybersecurity is thousands of years old. It is claimed...
03 August 2021 Kurt Haller
Cybercrime is Projected To Cost The World $10.5 Trillion Annually By 2025
"If it were measured as a country, then cybercrime — which is predicted to inflict damages totaling $6 trillion USD globally in 2021 — would be the world’s...
02 August 2021 Kurt Haller
Official Launch of Venari Security
We're thrilled to announce a new milestone today - Venari Security recently closed £4.2m in Series A funding with a valuation of £14.2m. We are so proud of...
29 July 2021 Kurt Haller
Venari Needs You
Want to join an exciting, disruptive, cybersecurity start-up? The Venari Security team is rapidly growing and we’re currently looking for a Software...
29 July 2021 Kurt Haller
Helping the healthcare industry stay healthy
Since 2019, the number of encrypted healthcare-related cyberattacks has increased by 260% (Health IT Security). According to Zscaler, "threat actors targeted...
29 July 2021 Kurt Haller
The Early Warning System for encrypted threats
Many of the notable attacks in 2021 have resulted in operational stagnancy. 79% of global executives rank cyber-attacks and threats as one of their...
29 July 2021 Kurt Haller
The London-based company that protects your business, large or small, against encrypted threats without the need for decryption.
Headquartered in London, Venari Security is an award-winning cybersecurity SaaS provider with the purpose to make the encrypted world more secure and...
29 July 2021 Kurt Haller
Detect all anomalous behaviour hidden within your encrypted traffic without the need for decryption. Keep your business secure with Venari Security.
As organisations digitally transform, a significant number of applications and services are using TLS encryption as the primary method of securing the...
29 July 2021 Kurt Haller
Complex regulations lead to complex challenges. Venari meets them.
Complex laws and regulations are driving organisations to encrypt more traffic. Increasingly, regulators require organisations to provide automated reports...
29 July 2021 Kurt Haller
Nearly 100% of all Google web traffic is encrypted
Cybercriminals can use encryption to their advantage. Don't let yourself be preyed upon. Stay secure and one step ahead with Venari Security.
29 July 2021 Kurt Haller
Reduce the Damage from Threats Hidden Within Encrypted Traffic
Venari detects all anomalous behaviour hidden within your encrypted traffic without the need for decryption. Keep your business secure with Venari Security.
29 July 2021 Kurt Haller
The Early Warning System for Security Teams
Our unique automated platform alerts your team to any incoming threats. Defend your business effectively, with Venari Security.
04 May 2022 Simon Mullis
The Undercover Attacker: The Threat of Encryption
In a recent article published by Global Security Mag, Simon Mullis CTO at Venari Security, explains why a decryption led approach is no longer sufficient in protecting against the cyber threat landscape. And why behavioural analytics will need to be widely adopted by organisations, to keep reaping the benefits of increased encryption without losing critical visibility.
04 April 2022 Paddy McGuinness
Incorporating cyber security into EU Policy formation
As the EU strives to strengthen its cyber resilience, it becomes ever more important for its institutions to have coherent advice on the cybersecurity implications of legislative and regulatory decisions. Current practice, including in the context of the Digital Market Act (DMA), suggests action is needed to establish a policy-agnostic technical mechanism...
25 March 2022 Paddy McGuinness
Kaspersky’s company history has led to concerns from governments
European governments have warned that Kaspersky could potentially be used by the Russian government to hack websites. But as official warnings increase, experts have mostly chosen to remain silent on whether it is safe to keep using the anti-virus company’s products. Paddy McGuinness, Advisor Venari Security, offers his view in The Independent
14 March 2022 Simon Mullis
Going for gold: ensuring high security at the winter Paralympics
Simon Mullis at Venari Security explores some of this issues that made the winter Paralympics so difficult to secure. Global events have always been clear trophy targets for threat actors. However, with the winter Paralympics this year the cyber security requirements, and the potential for high-profile digital disruption, have never been higher...
28 February 2022 Simon Mullis
An Olympic Effort? Ensuring Security In A Rising Threat Landscape
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...
08 February 2022 Hiten Mistry
Safer Internet Day 2022: A view from the experts
Safer Internet Day, held annually on 8th February, promotes safer practices and better safeguarding on the internet, covering a broad range of areas such as cyberbullying, cybercrime, and digital identity. Tech leaders at Pluralsight, Venari, Cradlepoint and Grayce weigh in on what businesses need to consider when it comes to online safety...
07 February 2022 Tom Millar
Venari Security establishes new Tunisian Centre of Excellence
London-based cybersecurity company, Venari Security is opening a Centre of Excellence in Tunis, Tunisia. The centre will become a hub for more than twenty talented development, research and cyber specialists representing the start of Venari Security’s significant investment in the region...
28 January 2022 Simon Mullis
Data Privacy Day 2022: Tech leaders discuss data privacy and protection in 2022
With many of our interactions being touched by a digital element today, whether at work, while shopping, travelling or booking appointments, enterprises and organisations have become inundated with data. But it’s not always clear what the privacy risk to this might be...
01 November 2021 Simon Mullis
Leading industry experts discuss which Cybersecurity trends are set to shape 2022
Undoubtedly, the accelerated digital transformation caused by the pandemic has left organisations increasingly vulnerable to cyberattacks. In fact, Deloitte reports that 72% of respondents in their Global 2021 Future of Cyber Survey experienced between one and ten cyber incidents and breaches in 2021 alone...
01 October 2021 Simon Mullis
Overcoming the security threat of end-to-end encryption
Simon Mullis at Venari argues that machine learning is the key to security in an encrypted world. The fundamental concept of privacy is something universally understood by everyone, with the right to be left alone, without interference or intrusion documented in the ‘The United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights’...
02 August 2021 Simon Mullis
Venari Security Raises £4.2M in Series A Funding
Venari Security, a London, UK –based defender of encrypted networks, raised £4.2m in Series A funding at a post money valuation of £14.2m. The company will use the funds to grow its Research & Development, data science and cyber teams, and complete its Go-To-Market plan...
02 August 2021 Tom Millar
Top security honchos back £4.2M funding for British cybersecurity startup
In today’s world where privacy is demanded by customers and mandated by regulators, encryption has become the norm now. But it also poses a big threat as it has become a major target for cybercriminals...
29 July 2021 Paddy McGuinness
Real Situational Awareness is More Vital Than Ever Before
I don’t think there has been a day in the last few years where I haven’t been helping a client somewhere with some form of cyber event. Ransomware has become ever more prevalent in 2020/21 but good old data theft, financial credential harvesting, and insiders, malicious or otherwise, are still around. The most frequent organisational vulnerability that I find is complacency.
29 July 2021 David Thomas
Privacy and Encrypted Traffic - Acceptable Policies for the Modern Enterprise
The fundamental concept of Privacy is something universally understood by everyone. The right to be left alone, without interference or intrusion is...
29 July 2021 Bryan Littlefair
How Bring Your Own Device Became Bring Your Own Risk Overnight
For security leaders, change is constant. We are constantly having to adapt our security strategies and activities so that they remain relevant to the...