43% of financial services industry to miss DORA deadline
16 January 2025
New research from Orange Cyberdefense reveals that 43% of the UK financial services industry will miss the Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) deadline when the European Union’s (EU) latest regulation takes effect on 17 January.
The risk for the 43% is significant given the financial fines that can be levied for non-compliance with DORA of up to 1% of worldwide daily turnover for as long as six months.
Find out more BBC ramps up data investments
15 January 2025
The BBC has doubled its data staff from 139 to 277 over the past three years, significantly ramping up its investment in data, according to official figures.
The data was obtained via the Freedom of Information Act (FOI), and analysed by the Parliament Street Think Tack, observing the data spending of the BBC across the headcount of data scientists and analysts and salaries over the past three years.
Goldilock warns of AI-powered malware
10 January 2025
Goldilock has released its 2025 cyber security threat forecast outlining the development of AI-powered malware as a sophisticated and adaptive persistent threat to critical infrastructure and sensitive networks as well as the steps both businesses and the public sector can be taking to help shape the digital security of tomorrow.
The arrival of AI-powered, agentic malware marks a departure from traditional cyber security threats, not least because the self-learning nature of agentic AI allows it to continuously modify its tactics and learn from its environment. Goldilock’s forecast covers the progression of AI-powered malware and demonstrates how the technology will start to employ adaptive evasion, learning from its encounters with different defence systems and autonomously evolving to outsmart the protective measures in place.
Find out more Patients Know Best secures £6 million in additional funding
07 January 2025
Patients Know Best (PKB) has obtained £6 million in funding from Growth Lending to advance the development and expansion of its Personal Health Record (PHR) platform.
The financial support, structured as a loan, is aimed at bolstering PKB's growth strategy in both the UK and international markets. PKB's platform is integrated with data feeds from all of England's general practitioners (GPs) and 25% of UK hospitals and is connected through the NHS App. The platform serves 4.7 million registered users and processes more than 20 million test results each month. The funding aligns with the UK government's objective to digitalise all NHS patient records over the next decade.
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