1,852 cyber attacks hit India each minute last year; Mumbai, Delhi most affected

Indian cybersecurity research and software firm Quick Heal has published its annual threat report for 2019, disclosing its observation of trends in cyber attacks through 2019. In an interesting but unsurprising find by Quick Heal, the report states...

Kenyan order that could leave over 500K private security guards jobless

Kenya’s Interior Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiang'i in a gazette notice dated September 6, 2019, gave an ultimatum to security firms to comply with new licencing requirements. The CS revealed that the firms that would...

Deccaleap Technologies launches industry’s first of its kind fire safety products

Pune based start-up Deccaleap Technologies has launched industry’s first of its kind fire safety products. The innovative fire safety products ‘Thro’ and ‘F-Protekkt’ have been developed in such a way that they can...

Smart Cities need to spend more on security tech

The world’s largest cities need to invest billions of additional dollars into their infrastructure in order to secure citizen data, new research suggests. Of the roughly $135 billion expected to be spent globally on...

Israel Railways builds new cyber-monitoring center

Israel Railways is launching a new innovative cyber-monitoring center (SOC) unifying the OT/IT networks. This was revealed at the transportation panel from Cybertech’s exclusive seminar, in collaboration with Fortinet. “Israel Railways is considered critical infrastructure....

Godrej Security Solutions aims to clock Rs 740 cr turnover next fiscal

Godrej Group company Godrej Security Solutions (GSS) is looking at a business turnover of Rs 740 crore in the next fiscal year, a senior company official has said. The company expects the growth to...

World’s ‘safest city to visit in 2019’ revealed by Economist Intelligence Unit

The Economist Intelligence Unit's 2019 Safe Cities Index (SCI) has ranked 60 destinations across the world in terms of their digital security, health security, infrastructure and personal safety. Topping the list is Tokyo. The...

Reliance Jio enters the apartment security services space with Jio Gate

Reliance rolled out its Jio Fiber services commercially on September 5. The company is also ready to jump into security management services with an upcoming launch of Jio Gate. The Jio Gate app has been listed on the Apple...

BCAS to deploy body scanners at all major airports within a year

The Indian Bureau of Civil Aviation Security (BCAS) has announced that all major airports in the country will deploy body scanners within a year. The regulator has also made it compulsory for other,...

N.Y. school district pays nearly $100K to unlock its data following ransomware attack

The Rockville Centre school district paid almost $100,000 to restore its data after being hacked with a ransomware virus that encrypted files on the system’s server until payment was made to unlock the...