Security vulnerabilities are one of the attack surfaces cyber criminals are exploiting to gain unauthorised access into environments to steal or encrypt confidential data for financial gain. By sharing security intelligence, organisations can help the UK become more resilient to cyber attacks whilst directly benefitting themselves. Secon Cyber welcomes a new addition from the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) to help simplify sharing vulnerability information.

Robert Gupta, CEO of Secon Cyber, was invited onto an episode of the podcast, which also included an interview with Geoff Hurst. Host Matthew O'Neill asked both guests a series of questions about leadership and the role it has played in their careers to date.

Newcastle University struggled in recovering their IT services due to ransomware attack. The cyber attack affected IT networks and systems except Office365 and other cloud services for communications i.e. Teams, Canvas and Zoom.