21 June 2021

Infosecurity Europe, Europe’s number one information security event, has announced that it is postponing the live exhibition and conference due to run at London Olympia in July, following the government’s delay in lifting the final Covid-19 restrictions. Instead it will deliver a virtual exhibition and conference from 13-15 July 2021, the original dates of the event. The in-person event will now be held in 2022.

This year’s Infosecurity Europe was set to combine both live and online elements. The planned virtual programme will be retained, and further built out with a rich line-up of presentations, talks and discussions. Among the confirmed sessions are:

14 June 2021

Corey Nachreiner, CTO, WatchGuard Technologies

Ransomware attacks in the UK continue to grow at an alarming rate, as cybercriminals target everything from government agencies to high-net-worth individuals and blue chip corporates to small businesses. Robert Shepherd asks the experts why this is and what enterprises can do to thwart the bad actors.

It’s all about the money

Why are we experiencing a large rise in ransomware attacks?

Raj Samani, chief scientist and McAfee fellow: Over the past year, we’ve seen security threats and ransomware attacks continue to evolve in complexity and increase in volume. This is because cybercriminals have quickly and effectively pivoted their tactics to take advantage of the pandemic or poor cyber hygiene. As a result, enterprises endured more opportunistic COVID-19 related campaigns among a new cast of bad-actor schemes. For example, at the end of 2020, we saw a continued increase in threats from Q3 (+240%) to Q4 (+114%), with ransomware increasing by a staggering 69%. Equally the rise in open RDP to the internet has compounded the issue.