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Cyber Security Body of Knowledge: scoping the knowledge areas

In Chris Ensor’s blog ‘Building the Cyber Security Body of Knowledge‘ he introduced the work being done in a project called the Cyber Security Body of Knowledge (CyBOK). At the time, the project was seeking contributions from the cyber security community to help identify the Knowledge Areas (KAs) which, in the community’s view, form the […]

National Cyber Security Centre: One year on

I’m so proud to launch our annual review today, marking the first anniversary since the National Cyber Security Centre came into existence. I can’t quite believe it’s been a whole year. The review sets out what we’ve achieved, so I won’t go into the detail here (although please do have a glance at it – there’s even […]

Brightening the outlook for security in the cloud

We’ve recently worked with a variety of teams across the public sector to help them decide whether to move the functions of their older IT systems into the cloud, or to upgrade the software and servers they’re using. It’s a question being asked in organisations of all sorts of sizes – from Whitehall to individual […]

Secure development and deployment

Today we are pleased to share with you an alpha draft of our secure development and deployment guidance. You may be wondering, ‘who this is aimed at?’ And ‘why is it in alpha?’ This blog post will answer those questions. Increased automation We have noticed the steady growth of agile development using continuous integration and delivery. You probably have too. Well, […]

Modernising Windows 10 Management

Deploying an array of devices has many benefits for end users – choice of device and platform are obvious wins. But, having to manage multiple infrastructures can seriously add to the workload of IT Admins. It may not be a panacea, but Windows 10 Mobile Device Management (MDM) can take some of the pain away. […]