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Protecting Oil and Gas Industry Infrastructure: Strategies for Resilience

SecureWorld News

With the increasing reliance on digital technologies for operational efficiency, this sector has become a prime target for sophisticated cyber and physical threats. To ensure energy security and economic stability, protecting the infrastructure is essential.

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Microsoft's Majorana 1 and the Path to Scalable Quantum Computing

SecureWorld News

Commercialization acceleration: Microsoft has been selected as one of two companies in DARPA's US2QC (Utility-Scale Quantum Computing) program, aiming to fast-track practical quantum systems. Energy & sustainability: Optimizing carbon capture, finding catalysts to break down plastics, and improving battery materials.

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Turn Out the Lights, the Cyber Attack Is Over. Not Quite

SecureWorld News

Due to the attack, thousands of street lamps remained illuminated throughout the day, wasting significant energy and money. The cybercriminals encrypted critical data and systems across the council's networks, severely hampering its ability to operate and provide services to residents.

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NIS2 Framework: Your Key To Achieving Cybersecurity Excellence

Centraleyes

Essential entities ” span sectors such as energy, healthcare, transport, and water. These sectors play a pivotal role in the functioning of society and the economy, making them primary targets for cyber threats. Identify areas with insufficient visibility and potential cyber risks.

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NIS2

Centraleyes

Risk Management : Organizations are mandated to implement measures aimed at minimizing cyber risks in alignment with the new Directive. These measures encompass incident management, strengthening supply chain security, enhancing network security, improving access control, and implementing encryption strategies.

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The Nature of Cybersecurity Defense: Pentagon To Reveal Updated Zero-Trust Cybersecurity Strategy & Guidelines

CyberSecurity Insiders

If energy, dollars and effort to apply Zero Trust is entirely focused on the infrastructure and OS components of cloud, data center or hybrid deployment patterns the bad actors will simply move their efforts to the attack surface that isn’t conditioned to Zero Trust. Zero Trust without API security is simply, not Zero Trust.

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Key Cybersecurity Trends for 2025. My Predictions

Jane Frankland

In this blog, I’m exploring these changes, grouped under key categories that I’ve used in previous years, to help business leaders and cyber risk owners better prepare for the evolving landscape. Ransomware remains a prominent threat, but the methods have evolved.