Insights

Keep up to date with the latest industry news, insights and thinking from Rela8 Group and our Technology Leaders Club. You will find customer success stories, blogs and thought leadership pieces, as well as what is making the news in cybersecurity, data and technology today.

Weekly News Highlights | OpenAI in hot water, Cisco acquiring Splunk, International Criminal Court hacked

September 25th

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Weekly News Highlights | police details hacked, UK sets out new AI principles, cyber attack shuts down MGM

September 18th

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Mental Health Awareness | Rela8’s approach

Mental health is often a prickly topic of conversation. Couched in stigma and societal pressure, people don’t traditionally feel comfortable discussing their mental health with others. We wanted to kickstart the conversation by sharing how we at Rela8 Group approach our mental health, manage stress, and avoid burn out.

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Weekly News Highlights | TikTok opens EU data centre, UK government makes concession on encryption, cyber insurance premiums rise while coverage shrinks

September 11th

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Blog | The Pressure is On - Sustainability and the Digital Transformation

Everybody wants sustainability to be a priority, but the fact is that organisations are struggling. After listening to the challenges being faced by our Technology Leaders Club community, it becomes clear that the roadblocks for digital sustainability go far beyond the purely technological.

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Weekly News Highlights | schools warned of cyberattack threat, Google brings generative AI to its security, the NCSC gives AI chatbot warning

September 4th

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Blog | Tackling the skills gap and fostering the next generation of tech leaders

Whether we want to admit it or not, the tech sector is facing a hiring crisis. No organisation is immune to the threat of a dwindling workforce, but our Technology Leaders Club community is making the issue a priority...

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Weekly News Highlights | tech firms struggle to retain diverse staff, Met police investigating breach, survey shows public aren't concerned about ChatGPT

August 29th

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Whitepaper | The Realities of Innovating in the Cloud

While the phrase "digital transformation" can mean any number of things, the embracing of Cloud technology is an almost universal feature of it. Some have been on the Cloud for years; others are still taking their first tentative steps. Regardless of where an organisation finds themselves on the Cloud journey, there will always be challenges. From managing the increased complexity to communicating value to the board, embracing the Cloud is about driving the mantra "business innovation is a journey, not a destination."

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Weekly News Highlights | UK electoral register hacked, layoffs hit cybersec, UK considers crackdown on Chinese tech

August 14th

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Meet our Advisory Board - an interview with Stuart Leach

Introducing our latest Rela8 Group Advisory Board member! We sat down with Stuart to hear about his journey through the industry, why he chose to join our Advisory Board, and why he wants to help the industry evolve their approach to security.

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Weekly News Highlights | Zoom ends work from home, India backs data privacy bill, LetMeSpy killed by hacker

August 7th

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Experiential Event Highlights - 2023 so far

2023 has already proven to be a rollercoaster of a year and our schedule of live events has continued amaze both our business partners and executive community alike. Here are some of our favourite moments from the year so far...

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Weekly News Highlights | Scottish uni hit by ransomware, companies double down on AI, Google leads green tech charge

July 31st

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Weekly News Highlights | Apple clashes with UK gov, AI companies commit to regulation, hackers backed by North Korea target cryptocurrency

July 24th

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Weekly News Highlights | rise in students studying tech, China hacks US government emails, UN holding first security council on AI risk

July 17th

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CDO Content Catalogue | 2023

Over the course of our virtual roundtables, executive dinners, and live events, we at Rela8 Group have established a vast catalogue of content with the help of our Technology Leaders Club community. This catalogue is an invaluable library of resources for our community, here is just a taste of our offerings for CDOs.

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Weekly News Highlights | AI generated attacks go mainstream, E2E encryption at risk in the UK, Google claim AI to boost economy by £400 billion

July 10th

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CIO Content Catalogue | 2023

Over the course of our virtual roundtables, executive dinners, and live events, we at Rela8 Group have established a vast catalogue of content with the help of our Technology Leaders Club community. This catalogue is an invaluable library of resources for our community, here is just a taste of our offerings for CIOs.

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Weekly News Highlights | Google blocks news in Canada, MOVEit hack fallout continues, Twitter battles data scrapers

July 3rd

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Meet our Advisory Board - an interview with Patrick McQuillan

Introducing our latest Rela8 Group Advisory Board member! We sat down with Patrick to hear why he chose to join our Advisory Board, embracing the data revolution, and what advice he would give to other Data Executives.

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Weekly News Highlights | lawyers in hot water thanks to AI, infamous hacking site taken down, NHS in bid for AI funding

June 26th

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CISO Content Catalogue | 2023

Over the course of our virtual roundtables, executive dinners, and live events, we at Rela8 Group have established a vast catalogue of content with the help of our Technology Leaders Club community. This catalogue is an invaluable library of resources for our community, here is just a taste of our offerings for CISOs.

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Whitepaper | Creating Value from Unstructured Language Data: Building Better Products with NLP

The ability to harness the language within your data assets provides a significant competitive advantage for your company. Unfortunately, too often organisations lack the resources to fully leverage their language data. Advances in AI and natural language processing provide the keys to unlocking this data, the challenge is knowing where to start and how to achieve real value.

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Weekly News Highlights | Russian hackers claim more victims, breakthrough for quantum computers, MoD partners with Google for AI

June 19th

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Weekly News Highlights | OpenAI optimistic on global coordination, Twitter isn't paying its bills, MOVEit hack continues to cause chaos

June 12th

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Weekly News Highlights | UK AI ban possible, Amazon's Ring fined for snooping, file transfer hack hits organisations

June 5th

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Mental Health Chats | Lyzia Van Iterson

We sit down with cyber security leader, Lyzia Van Iterson, to discuss the mental health issues facing the IT industries today.

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Weekly News Highlights | Facebook fined, TV boxes sold laced with malware, Twitter accuses Microsoft

May 22nd

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Don't count leads - drive pipeline

Post-pandemic, marketing leaders face a new world of lead generation and creative channels to integrate into their marketing strategies. But how are they investing differently now, to not just drive leads, but drive an efficient pipeline for their sales team?

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Weekly News Highlights | hacker marketplace resists takedown, foreign investment in UK tech slumps, warnings of UK's failure with AI

May 15th

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Have IT operations let business services get out of control? | An interview with ScienceLogic

Before TLC Reconnect, we sat down with Austin Pierson, the Client Director over at ScienceLogic to ask and answer the simple question - have IT operations let business services get out of control?

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Weekly News Highlights | hackers for hire are a cause for concern, EU eyes AI regulations, experts condemn the Online Safety Bill

April 24th

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Whitepaper | Data Protection for the Information Economy: The Data Awareness Challenge

Fundamental to meeting any data protection legislation is knowing your data: what you have, why you have it, how you got it, what you do with it, and where you keep it. Building data awareness through validated data discovery is now an essential element for an effective data security strategy capable of navigating a data-driven landscape, but with new regulations being introduced and the rapid proliferation of data, can businesses keep up?

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Weekly News Highlights | charity data stolen in cyber attack, AI moves into medicine, FBI warns of 'juice jacking'

March 17th

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Email Security - Is good enough OK? Or is it time for change? | An interview with Tessian

Fresh from their appearance at TLC Reconnect 2023, we had the chance to sit down with Tessian's Director of Product Marketing to ask if email security is good enough, or if it's time for a change...

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Weekly News Highlights | AI continues to stir up controversy, a new supply chain attack has emerged, report finds prejudice in UK's tech sector

April 3rd

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Weekly News Highlights | Twitter source code leaked, massive tech layoffs continue, ransomware victims come forward

March 27th

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Do you think AI is going to be a necessary tool for modern businesses? | What you thought

At the beginning of the month, we asked our Technology Leaders Club community a question – do you think AI is going to become a necessary tool for modern businesses? Here's what you thought...

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Tech Show London and TLC Reconnect Highlights

Some of our highlights from this year's Tech Show and TLC Reconnect...

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Weekly News Highlights | More bad news for TikTok, crypto scams are on the rise, researchers predict human-level AI is imminent

March 20th

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Bugcrowd Q&A | The CISO'S Guide to Crowdsourced Security

We speak to Bugcrowd’s Chief Information and Security Officer, Nick McKenzie, to get his perspective on crowdsourced security testing and why organisations should be racing to get on board.

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Weekly News Highlights | WHSmith hacked, YouTube accused of collecting children's data, cyber attacks from China on the rise

March 6th

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Rela8 Group’s Technology Leaders Club partners with Tech Show London 2023

Show London 2023. Rela8 Group Ltd, a leading events and custom marketing agency for the IT, Security and Data technology industry, has joined forces with CloserStill Media’s Tech Show London, the UK’s most important technology event for business, taking place on 8th & 9th March 2023 at ExCeL London.

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Weekly News Highlights | TikTok under fire, former UK party leaders call for digital ID, Australia reforming cyber security approach

February 27th

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60 second roundup - Fine tuning your DLP and compliance program

After a recent roundtable event held with our partners at HelpSystems, we wanted to challenge our moderator and cyber security expert, James Mckinlay - CISO, to see if he could sum up the discussion and challenges faced by our community in less than a minute – a very tall order!

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Weekly News Highlights | Company claims it can 'erase your past', Bing ChatGPT offers some unsettling responses, Twitter to charge for 2FA

February 20th

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Happy Holidays – 2022 end of year wrap up

Well here we are, at the end of another crazy year, and we’re happy to say that 2022 has been everything 2021 was and more! This year has been chock full of events, new partnerships, and new ways of bringing our community together. 2022 hasn’t been perfect, but despite the turbulence, we at Rela8 Group want to reflect on our year and focus on all the amazing things that have happened.

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Weekly News Highlights | Reddit falls victim to cyberattack, Google AI makes a costly mistake, Valentine's scams run amok

February 13th

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Weekly News Highlights | Interpol to police the Metaverse, Italy flag a global ransomware attack, UK announces plans to regulate crypto

February 6th

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Weekly News Highlights | 10m customers hit by JD Sports cyber attack, China to launch ChatGPT rival, NCSC issues alert over foreign hacking groups

January 30th

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Weekly News Highlights | Google jobs next on the chopping block, cyber criminals are earning less, T-Mobile hack exposes 37m customers

January 23rd

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Weekly News Highlights | Microsoft wants ChatGPT, Royal Mail hack linked back to Russia, TikTok banned for government officials

January 16th

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Weekly News Highlights | Schools Hacked, UK Back in Space, Combatting AI Cheats

January 9th

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Biggest Breaches of 2022 | ChatGPT | Top Five Trends of 2023

December 12th

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LastPass Data Breach | World Cup Themed Cyberattacks | Meta Fined $277 Million For Leak

December 5th

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Twitter Data Breach Worse Than Reported | WhatsApp Leak | NCSC Report On Nationally Significant Data Breaches

November 28th

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Twitter Staff Locked Out | Netflix Phishing Emails | Black Friday Scam Warning

November 21st

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Mid-year Data Report 2022

More data is available than ever before, however, with this glut of data comes challenges. We have the enviable position of having access to some of the best CDOs and data experts from across the spectrum of industry and we wanted to use their insights from our events to help guide the data industry with this report.

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FTX Hacked | Avast and LastPass Reports | US Midterm Elections Uncompromised By Cyber Attacks

November 14th

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Former British PM Liz Truss' Phone Hacked | iOS Bluetooth Eavesdropping Bug | New Digital ID and Health Insurance for Japan

October 31st

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NCSC CEO Calls for International Standards on IoT Security | Ransomware is Being Used as a Precursor to Physical War | Global Cyber Security Workforce Grows to 4.7 million

October 24th

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Bulgarian Government Cyberattack | New Chinese Cyber Espionage Group | Shein Owner Fined Over Breach Response

October 17th

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Experiential Event Highlights - Summer-Autumn 2022

Our 2022 schedule of live events has continued amaze both our business partners and our executive community. Here are some of our favourite moments from the last few months!

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Rela8 Group & TLC partner up with the beating heart of the Information Cyber Security profession

We are excited to announce our new partnership with the Chartered Institute of Information Security!

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What Companies Are Putting Your Cyber Security At Risk | Uber Breach Update | Scam Energy Bill Messages

September 26th

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Accessibility Chats | an interview with AbilityNet

We sit down with Rela8 Group Advisory Board member and accessibility champion, Douglas Silverstone, as well as Adi Latif, Accessibility Consultant at AbilityNet to discuss some of the challenges around accessibility and how they can be tackled.

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Roundtable Roundup | Resilience & Agility - You Need Both!

We sat down with cyber expert and moderator, James Mckinlay - CISO, to hear his thoughts on how technology leaders are configuring their operating models for resilience and agility.

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New Rules For UK Telecoms Network | Montenegro Cyber Attack | NATO Assessing MBDA Missile Systems Data Breach

September 5th

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Cyberattacks are on the rise, are you ready to recover maliciously compromised data?

Few traditional disaster recovery programs are designed for recovery from a data compromising cyberattack. Without focused discussions, detailed planning, backup solution enhancement, cyber recovery tests and exercises, and a comprehensive data recovery program; you are putting your business at unnecessary risk to IT service delivery.

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An interview with Mike Kiersey - Integration, optimisation, and resilience

In today's hypercompetitive landscape, businesses need to do everything they can to survive and thrive. Following on from our recent TLC Connect Data event, we sat down with Mike Kiersey, Director of Boomi’s global technology office, to hear his thoughts on the future of modern businesses, the importance of staying competitive, and why organisations should be looking to optimise their data to not only benefit their business, but also their customers.

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UK Leadership Election Ballot Delayed Over Security Fears | NHS 111 Service Attacked | German Chamber of Commerce Hit By Attack

August 8th

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US Ransomware Bill | Decreasing Gap Between Vulnerability Disclosures and Exploits | Average Data Breach Cost Rising

August 1st

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TLC Unfiltered: With Global CISO Helen Rabe

On the most recent episode of our TLC Unfiltered podcast we had the pleasure of speaking with Global CISO, Helen Rabe about emails. Specifically the ceaseless deluge of marketing and sales emails that find their way into the inboxes of executive decision makers every day.

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Attack Can Unmask Anonymous Users on Any Major Browser | Albanian Government Hit by Cyber Attack | T-Mobile Breach Settlement

July 25th

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Healthcare Data Breaches Hit All Time High | Amazon Sharing Ring Footage Without Consent | Data Breaches Linked To Ransomware Declined

July 19th

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Rela8 Group partners with rapidly expanding Cyber Security Business Intelligence platform

We are excited to announce our new partnership with Decipher Cyber and the Jenny 2.0 platform

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TLC Connect Security Highlights

The 7th July certainly wasn’t an average Thursday night for our CISO and IT Security network, as they joined us at the iconic Royal National Theatre’s Buffini Chao Deck for an incredible evening of networking, champagne and canapés, and live entertainment at our second TLC Connect event.

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Re-Architecting the Enterprise: The Role of Real-Time Data

The recent revolution in data infrastructure and application architecture has transformed the way all kinds of organisations, from the traditional to the digital native, work with data. Transformation requires a thoughtful strategy that drives the re-architecting of the enterprise. To truly take advantage of real-time data as the most strategic platform within your company, it must move from the domain of one-off engineering initiatives into a central nervous system for the enterprise.

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Apple Announces iPhone Lockdown Mode | How Many Cyber Attacks Happen Per Day? | China Cyber Breach

July 11th

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Modern DLP – Why Traditional Approaches Won’t Solve Your Insider Threat Problem | Part 2

With a staggering amount of sensitive data being created every day, it’s no wonder traditional enterprise Data Loss Prevention solutions struggle to manage. Many enterprise DLP implementations fail because they are too hard to setup, too hard to manage, too disruptive to the end users and get too little support from the business leaders. Walking the line between effective modern DLP implementation and usability is the challenge facing businesses today.

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An interview with Dax Grant

We recently had the pleasure of sitting down with the CEO of Global Transform, the incredible Dax Grant. On top of being a CEO, Dax sits on numerous councils and boards, working tirelessly to drive positive changes in the tech industry.

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Hybrid cloud - is it the future or just the next technology buzzword?

The use of data and analytics in the cloud is no longer an aspiration, it’s a reality. Most, if not all, enterprise organisations already have multiple workloads in public and private clouds. The cloud can offer benefits of cost, security, and governance, but also in balancing the relentless demand from the people who want frequent access to the data they need at speed. However, let’s not forget that despite the benefits of cloud, many workloads will remain on-premises now and for the future.

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Human Error – SANS Institute Report | NFT Marketplace Data Breach | Mid-Year Cyber Security Report

July 4th

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Security Debt, Running With Scissors

Security debt is a serious and common problem for that pervades businesses today, especially with the move to cloud computing and rise of IoT. While organisations might accept the risks they encounter, they often neglect to review them or plan for the future. That risk is compounded when patches are passed from passed from person-to-person through staff changes and/or employee churn. Managing our growing security debt is therefore of critical importance because ransomware is the debt collector, and it will come calling.

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Experiential Event Highlights

A big part of 2022 has been the triumphant return of in-person events. Here are some of our favourite memories from the year so far!

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Phishing Hits All Time High | EU Common Charging Port | New UK Centre To Fight Information War

June 13th

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Leave no-one behind: how to unlock your entire digital ecosystem

Once data is entered and can then be connected safely, securely, and quickly everywhere – you have in place the foundations of integration and the beginning of the “integrated experiences” journey. If only it were that simple. Data readiness, user engagement, and the unified platform are vital to delivering an integrated experience and will become critical to an organisation’s survival. The businesses that will thrive in an increasingly digital and connected society are the ones building a modern tapestry of integrated experiences.

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Why Students Are At Risk of Data Breaches | Microsoft Office Exploit | US Military Hackers Conducting Offensive Operations in Ukraine

June 6th

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How CIOs can gain data superpowers to manage data pipelines in the face of real time decisions

Real-time decision support is a success factor for all businesses impacted by the current global uncertainty, as well as the rapid digital transformation of the market. This could impact the responsibility of CIOs who may need to develop data superpowers because existing models of data processes and pipeline may not be adapted to the required speed to insight.

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Human Error: The Main Cause of Breaches – Verizon Report | UK Government Looking for Views | Meta Updates Privacy Policy

May 30th

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Rebalance your cyber security with a “prevention-first” strategy

It is said that the most efficient way to reduce insider risks is to prevent insider incidents. A prevention-first strategy must also prove effective at rapidly detecting and mitigating the effects of insider threats originating from both malicious and accidental insiders. What if you could secure and protect your users and devices, even BYOD laptops and smartphones, with a method that is focused on earning trust across any end point and continuously validating that trust at every event or transaction?

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Ransomware: Getting to know the enemy

Every organisation today is concerned about security and the inevitability of a ransomware attack. With multi-generational sprawl increasing the attack surface, recovering from a malicious attack is becoming increasingly difficult.

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Meet our Advisory Board - an interview with Douglas Silverstone

Introducing our latest Rela8 Group Advisory Board member! We sat down with Douglas to hear why he chose to join our Advisory Board, how he hopes to help the Data industry overcomes the challenges of data innovation, and what advice he would give to other Data Executives in his industry.

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The Power of Data - The Critical Enabler of Faster Decision Making

The world is a drastically different place now compared to a couple of years ago. Businesses have been forced to make bigger decisions than ever before while moving quicker and more frequently. In retail, being at the forefront of having to adapt to changing customer behaviour and interactions, there is no time more critical than now to make better and faster decisions.

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Women in Tech

With Wembley Stadium as the stage, we brought together a group of CISOs, CTOs, CIOs, and key industry heads and directors to discuss the responsibilities of being ‘women in tech’, industry double standards, and mentoring the next generation.

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Farm Machinery at Risk | Putin Bolstering Russia’s IT Security | Ransomware Groups Leveraging Old Vulnerabilities

May 23rd

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Optimising the Human Element of Cyber Security

Human error is the most common portal for cyber security breaches. So, it stands to reason that human talent is the most valuable defence against attacks. How can organisations reduce risk by making humans the strongest link in the cyber defence line?

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User Records Leaked on Telegram | Cyber Security Skills Gap Contributed to 80% of Breaches | United States Cybercrime Tracking Bill

May 16th

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Creating order out of chaos: natural language as a strategic imperative

Language is central to how organisations do business, shaping processes and impacting how they communicate with their customers. To get ahead of the competition, businesses need to be capable of understanding how to realise tangible value from the language data available from its unstructured inputs. The challenge is to leverage massive amounts of data in a consistent and scalable format. The solution to this question can help businesses to power processes, deliver business insight and move forward at a quicker pace.

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Your Role in Securing Data in Cloud Applications

The rapid and continuous adoption of Cloud applications has been pivotal for digital transformation initiatives and enabling global workforces. Their importance to an organisation, also makes Cloud applications primary targets of cyber criminals to gain illegitimate access to company data and networks. The challenge organisations are facing now – how do they secure a third party platform?

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UK Government Call For Tougher Protections Against Malicious Apps | Apple, Google, and Microsoft Team Up on Passwordless | NHS Phishing Campaign

May 9th

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2021 End-User Computing State of the Market

End-user computing (EUC) approaches continue to evolve as organisations look to support the needs of a dynamic and changing workplace. Hybrid and multi-cloud approaches have become a more important variable in the context of work-from-home. Platform flexibility remains important but lowering the bar on complexity has become an increasingly key focus for EUC implementations.

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Lapsus$ Breaches T-Mobile | 20 Most Common Passwords Leaked | Five Affordable Cyber Security Best Practices for Small Businesses

May 3rd

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Where's the Sec in Mobile DevOps?

Mobile applications are becoming an indispensable platform for organisations but if left unchecked they can provide an easy attack surface for malicious actors. So what steps can businesses take to ensure they don’t hit the news headlines?

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Downing Street Attack | Funky Pigeon Breach | 3 Ways We Can Improve Security

25th April

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TLC TV Episode 5: Accelerating the Developer-First Security Movement

In April we hosted our first TLC TV episode of 2022 and what a return it was! Partnering with Contrast Security, in this episode we looked at DevOps and accelerating the Developer-First security movement.

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Creating value from unstructured language data: building better products with NLP

The ability to harness the language within your data assets provides a significant competitive advantage for your company. Unfortunately, too often this data remains an untapped gold mine as organisations lack the resources to fully leverage their language data. Advances in AI and natural language processing provide the keys to unlocking this data, providing deeper knowledge and insight allowing you to create more differentiated data products and improve audience engagement. The challenge is often knowing where to start and how to employ AI strategies to achieve real value.

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Hydra Bust | Finnish Government Hit By Cyber Attacks | Thousands of Small Businesses Vulnerable To Attacks

11th April

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Roundtable Roundup | An Interview With James McKinlay

We caught up with James McKinlay - Cyber Security, one of our star moderators and Cyber Security expert, after a recent roundtable to get his thoughts on why modern Data Loss Prevention strategies are becoming more and more critical!

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Why you’ll never get to Zero Trust with weak authentication

The security of our digital IDs has never been more important: from cloud services that have kept businesses functioning through the rapid shift to remote working, to providing access to essential consumer services. Yet businesses still put their users and customers through undue suffering, leaving themselves exposed to security compromises.

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Lapsus$ Crime Spree Continues | Second Biggest Crypto Hack Ever| UK Cyber Security Breaches Survey

April 4th

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Burnout and breakdown – it’s time to start taking mental health seriously

It's time we started talking about corporate burnout.

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TLC Community Soapbox | DevSecOps (or, how to become the best plumber in the world)

Principal Cloud Solutions Architect and community member, Jeroen Mulder, gives his views on DevSecOps and being the best 'plumber' you can be.

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The Future & Document Workflows - interview with Gerrit van der Walt

We spoke to DocuSign's Gerrit van der Walt to hear his thoughts on staying competitive with the ideal document workflow, and how businesses might move towards it.

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White Hat Ball 2022 - interview with Rela8 Group CEO

Coming back for our third year, Rela8 Group are thrilled to once again be sponsoring the White Hat Ball to help raise money for NSPCC Childline. Sitting down with Rela8 Group CEO & Founder, Paul Gibson, we ask why giving back is so important, and why the White Hat Ball makes a perfect partner for Rela8 Group.

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Biggest Cyber Security Risks of 2022 | One in Five UK Employees in Data Breach | Ubisoft Breach Update

March 21st

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Russia and Ransomware Payments | Four Day Breach Notification Requirement | Top 5 Healthcare Cyber Security Threats

March 14th

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Identity and Access Management as the Foundation of the Modern Enterprise

Identity and Access Management (IAM) gained notoriety as a business enabler 15-20 years ago. It is seeing a resurgence today because many people now understand that IAM can solve many of the emerging challenges facing businesses today.

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Hackers Release Samsung Data | Russia Blocks Facebook and Twitter | Phishing Attacks Target Officials Helping Refugees

March 7th

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Russia and Ukraine Conflict | Tech Talent Charter – Diversity and Inclusion | UK Businesses Facing Password Security Breaches

February 28th

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Ukraine Cyber Attack | Red Cross Breach Update | Half of All Sites Exposed

February 21st

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Foreign Office Targeted by Cyber Attack | iPhone Flaws | ESET Threat Report

February 14th

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The challenges of cloud adoption - can you become agile and maintain momentum whilst remaining secure?

The Flexera 2021 State of the Cloud Report shows cloud computing trends. Although 80% of enterprise organisations choose hybrid for greater flexibility and adapting to change, it does add complexity.

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European Oil Terminals Hit By Cyber Attack | Meta: Supercomputers and Stock Prices | Digital Adoption by UK Banks

February 8th

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Top 5 Cyber Security Challenges for 2022

Cyber security is a field of constant change and evolution. As such, pinning down specific challenges is like chasing shadows! However, thanks to our incredible Technology Leaders Club community, we have access to the insight of some of the industry’s best on what challenges they are concerned about for the start of 2022.

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Meet our Advisory Board - an interview with Milos Pesic

We spoke to Milos Pesic, Global Head of Information and Cyber Security at Marken and our newest Advisory Board member, about joining the board and the challenges facing the cyber security industry today.

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UK Bolster Defences Against Cyber Attacks | Stats Show All Time High for Cyber Attacks | Fake DocuSign Phishing Scam

January 31st

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Red Cross Breach | UK Government – Privacy vs. Safety | Updated Guidance from NCSC

January 24th

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Top 10 trends and challenges for the tech industry | January 2022

Here at the Technology Leaders Club, we pride ourselves on having our fingers on the pulse of the tech industry. Supported by our fantastic delegate community and vendor partners, we ensure that if something is on the minds of the industry’s best and brightest, we know about it and are already preparing a roundtable discussion to tackle it. With that said, here is a list of the top 10 challenges recently that have our community buzzing:

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Nordic Companies Targeted in Attacks | Ukraine Government Hacked | Microsoft Exchange Servers Break

January 17th

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New China Laws | UK Ministry of Defence Attack | 4 Threats to Prepare For in 2022 | Top 5 Data Security Predictions for 2022

January 10th

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Happy Holidays - 2021 end of year wrap up

Looking back on our 2021 and wrapping up a year that will go down in history for all the right reasons.

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How do you secure the anywhere workplace? - an interview with Joe Robertson, Director of Information Security & EMEA CISO at Fortinet

For businesses around the world, the pandemic has shown that work is about what you do, not where you do it. The new workplace can now be anywhere, but with that freedom comes concerns for business security. We spoke to Fortinet’s Director of Information Security, Joe Robertson, to get his perspective on the “Anywhere Workplace” and how businesses should be approaching our new normal going forward.

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Top Data Breaches of 2021 | Most Critical Vulnerability of The Last Decade | Top 200 Most Common Passwords of 2021 Revealed

December 13th

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Omicron Phishing Emails | Google Report | Kaspersky Employee Wellbeing 2021 Report

December 6th

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NFTs and the Metaverse | New Cybersecurity Legislation | NCSC Diversity & Inclusion Report 2021

29th November

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UK Pushing For Better Supply Chain Security | Eight Predictions for 2022 and Beyond | UK and US join forces in Cyber Space

22nd November

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TLC TV Episode 4: The Ripple Effect

This month, we hosted our final TLC TV episode of the year, certain we would be ending 2021 with a bang. Partnering with Talend, we looked at data health and the impacts that healthy data can have on businesses, culture, and community.

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FBI Targeted by Hackers | Critical Infrastructure Companies Targeted | Roundup of Government Data Security Threats in 2021

15th November

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ONS Reports Huge Spike in Cybercrime and Fraud During Pandemic | 6 Potential Long-Term Impacts Of A Data Breach | Facebook Becomes Meta

8th November

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VoIP Attack | More Cybersecurity Statistics | NASA Artemis Update

1st November

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An interview with Dan Overton, Deputy EMEA Information Security Officer at Lockheed Martin and Rela8 Group Advisory Board member

We spoke to Dan Overton, our newest Advisory Board Member, about joining the Rela8 Group Board and about what can be done to give back. With 16 years of experience in the IT industry, Dan has experienced the boom in cybersecurity first-hand. Dan is now the Deputy EMEA Information Security Officer at Lockheed Martin and is looking to do his part in developing the industry.

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Google Tracking State-Sponsored Hacking | Acer Hacked Twice | Tech Giants Underreport Carbon Footprint

25th October

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30 Nation Ransomware Commitment & New Strain | Microsoft Office 365 Password Attacks | Seven Hot Digital Transformation Trends – And Three Going Cold

18th October

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Telegraph Subscriber Data Unsecured Online | Cyber Security Awareness Month – Fortinet Survey | Ransomware Biggest Threat to UK Security

October 13th

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New Hacking Group Emerges | 10 Impediments to IT Innovation | A New Way Hackers Can Make Malware Undetectable on Windows

27th September

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Employees working from home see cybersecurity as a hinderance | Apple zero-click vulnerability | 61 million fitness tracker records breached | MOD data breach

21st September

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US and Europe advance talks to protect data transfers | United Nations breach Is REvil back online?

13th September

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Apple delays plans to scan iPhones | T-Mobile data breach update | The Welsh Government's WhatsApp rules

8th September

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Two sides of a roundtable

I know you’re thinking ‘a roundtable doesn’t have sides,’ aren’t you? In this blog we are going to talk about the two sides to a roundtable. Not just any roundtable but a virtual roundtable.

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Tech giants make multibillion dollar commitments to cyber security - New head of ICO will oversee a “shake-up” of data protection rules post-Brexit

31 August

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54.6 Million hit by T-Mobile Data Breach | Chip shortage hits Global Car Production | China passes new Data Protection Law

23 August

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Hospitals see cyber security investment as low priority | The evolution of digital transformation | Top 5 breaches of all time

16 August

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Whitepaper: How do we stop attacks before they stop us?

Choosing the right cybersecurity solutions is difficult in a constantly changing cyber-threat landscape. The goal is to stop cyber-attacks before they damage your business.

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Whitepaper: Security Debt? Hindsight is 2020

When the world shifted to working from home, companies saw on average a 71.9% increase in authentications due to remote access. Authentications to virtual private networks (VPN) and remote desktop protocol (RDP) grew by 60%.

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