The Cardiff Business Awards 2022 took place at City Hall following a competitive and rigorous application and panel interview process with fifteen awards being presented on the night.

Shortlisting for ‘International Company of the Year’ and ‘Innovation Company of the Year’, PureCyber were excited to attend the event and thrilled to win Innovation Company of the Year up against a very competitive category.

For organisations and businesses across Wales and the UK who are looking for an affordable solution to improve their cyber resilience, Cyber Essentials is the perfect first step.

The main themes of this year’s cyber awareness month are phishing and ransomware. These are still amongst the biggest cyber security threats in 2022. In fact, according to the European Union Agency for Cyber Security’s latest report on the cyber landscape, between May 2021 and June 2022 roughly 10 terabytes of data were stolen each month across Europe by criminals. To put this into perspective, just 1TB is equivalent to 83,333,333.33 word document pages.

Leading commercial law firm Acuity Law and brand reputation specialists Effective Communication have extended their partnership to offer businesses expert cyber advice via consultancy PureCyber.

The new partnership with PureCyber follows the launch of Acuity Reputation Management (ARM), a bespoke service that provides businesses of all shapes and sizes with a full suite of corporate reputation management protection, including access to experts such as Effective Communication and PureCyber.

Cyber security consultancy PureCyber will roll-out fully funded National Cyber Security Centre approved Cyber Essentials and Cyber Essentials Plus certification to strengthen the cyber security of law firms across Wales.

Social Engineering is the term used in the cyber industry when hackers utiliseinformation posted on social media platforms to make their phishing emails more convincing. Cyber criminals are adept at using deception to manipulate individuals into divulging confidential or personal information or carrying out tasks that may be used for fraudulent purposes.

The CyberEdge 2022 Cyberthreat Defence Report (CDR) shows that over 80% of UK organisations experienced at least one successful cyber attack between 2021 and 2022.

Cyber security consultancy PureCyber has teamed up with FSB Wales, Swansea University and Thomas Carroll Group to run free roadshows to raise cyber awareness across Wales with the first events planned in Cardiff and Wrexham.

Cyber security consultancy Wolfberry has today (June 1) rebranded as PureCyber as it looks to solidify its recent success and expansion.

The Covenant was signed on Wednesday (25 May) by Wolfberry Founder and CEO Damon Rands and overseen by Sergeant Andrew Oldham, Engagement Lead, 614 Squadron RAF.

Outsourcing your cyber security needs could be extremely beneficial to your business, whether you choose to outsource one service or if you find a supplier to completely manage your cyber security.

A ‘cyber conflict’ has been bubbling between the two states for years and since the conflict has majorly escalated in 2022, the number of notable cyber-attacks has steeply risen.

As the cyber sector is constantly growing and evolving with innovations, both good and bad, the trends we see change from year to year. After an eventful 2021, we can expect to see some new challenges this year.

The cyber essentials scheme is changing

The initial Cyber Essentials scheme was introduced in 2014 and since then, there has been multiple changes to technology, the way in which people approach work and the way that cyber security should be addressed by all organisations.

As the world attempts to work with pandemic developments in 2022, most businesses find themselves adopting a hybrid working model. Ever evolving restrictions and the balance between some employees and companies preferring to adopt full or part-time home working arrangements, means that many organisations have introduced flexible models

Friday 10th December 2021 - a vulnerability was discovered in the popular Java extension Log4j.

There is no need to panic about cyber security in the run-up to Christmas, but there are some simple steps you can take to maintain your cyber security posture over the holidays.

“We are thrilled to be recognised as a leading provider of cyber security, in a sector that has seen such significant growth and rapid innovation.”

Judged by an independent & impartial panel of experts, Welsh headquartered company Wolfberry Cyber Security were awarded Runner-Up in the ‘The IT Security Provider of the Year Award’

Plexal has announced the 108 cyber startups joining the Cyber Runway accelerator. Cyber Runway is the UK’s most diverse community of cyber founders and entrepreneurs. Startups will join one of three streams within the DCMS-backed programme – Launch, Grow and Scale