Security analysts at the UK Ministry of Defence (MOD) — and everywhere — face an overwhelming challenge: They can receive thousands of alerts daily, and distinguishing genuine threats from false positives in a timely fashion has become nearly impossible without technological intervention. The human cost is significant — over 70% of SOC analysts (across sectors)1 report burnout, even while the MOD saw a 400% increase2 in data breaches over the past five years. Organisations often respond by adding more tools, personnel, and (unnecessary) costs rather than addressing fundamental inefficiencies.
Simplifying security operations
This unified data model brings together endpoint, network, and cloud telemetry in one searchable data view. Analysts can quickly pivot from alerts to detailed investigation without switching contexts. By eliminating the need for separate tools and their associated licensing costs, total security tooling costs can be reduced by approximately 25% while actually improving capabilities and reducing complexity. Investigation guides and prebuilt playbooks standardise response procedures while ML-powered detection rules identify threats that might otherwise be missed.
For remediation, security teams can execute actions across distributed endpoints simultaneously — isolating compromised machines, killing malicious processes, or deploying patches without leaving the platform. This end-to-end workflow automation transforms what was once a multi-hour, multi-tool process into a streamlined operation.
Ride-hailing app’s ‘take rate’ – or cut – sometimes reaches more than 50% since introduction of dynamic pricing
More than a decade after being one of 19 Uber drivers who took the company to court in 2015, Abdurzak Hadi continues to drive for – and fight with – the ride hailing app.
The group won their claim confirming their entitlement to the legal minimum wage – but the Silicon Valley company’s insistence that its drivers were self-employed contractors meant the case went all the way to the supreme court. In 2021, Hadi and friends won there too.
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Asterinas is a new
Linux-ABI-compatible kernel project written in Rust, based on what the
authors call a "framekernel architecture". The project overlaps somewhat
with the goals of the
Rust for Linux
project, but approaches the problem space from a different direction by
trying to get the best from both monolithic and microkernel designs.
An unprecedented planetary-scale seismic event caused the earth to vibrate for nine days straight back in 2023, but the reason why was unclear. Scientists initially had more questions than answers, labelling the event an unidentified seismic object and undertook a mammoth scientific collaboration across multiple countries and institutions to get to the bottom of what really happened. Josh Toussaint-Strauss looks into the mystery at the heart of this scientific investigation
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Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of the
6.15.3,
6.12.34, and
6.6.94 stable kernels. Each contains a
relatively large number of important fixes throughout the kernel tree.
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (gvisor-tap-vsock), Debian (activemq and chromium), Fedora (kea, python-django4.2, python-django5, python-setuptools, and rust-git-interactive-rebase-tool), Oracle (ipa and kernel), Red Hat (buildah, container-tools:rhel8, containernetworking-plugins, git-lfs, go-toolset:rhel8, golang, golang-github-openprinting-ipp-usb, grafana, grafana-pcp, gvisor-tap-vsock, podman, and skopeo), Slackware (libblockdev and xorg), SUSE (gdm, gstreamer-plugins-base, ignition, kernel, pam, redis, s390-tools, screen, systemd, and xorg-x11-server), and Ubuntu (godot, golang-1.22, libblockdev, node-express, pam, samba, and udisks2).
Good to see government that values its academics (cough cough). Plus: New board criticized for lacking 'ops' people
Cybersecurity experts have started a formal review into the UK cybersecurity market, at the government's request, to identify future growth opportunities as it looks to grow the industry that's core to the country's Industrial Strategy.…
One of Elon Musk’s SpaceX rockets exploded during a routine test in Texas. The Starship 36 suffered 'catastrophic failure and exploded' at the Starbase launch facility according to the Cameron County authorities. Starship, the world’s largest and most powerful rocket, is central to Musk’s long-term vision of colonising Mars. This is the latest setback, with SpaceX betting that its 'fail fast, learn fast' ethos will eventually pay off
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The legendary video game designer discusses directing actors in LA from Japan, how Mad Max inspired his career and the unique reason why he wants to go to space
Hideo Kojima – the acclaimed video game director who helmed the stealth-action Metal Gear series for decades before founding his own company to make Death Stranding, a supernatural post-apocalyptic delivery game this publication described as “2019’s most interesting blockbuster” – is still starstruck, or perhaps awestruck. “George [Miller] is my sensei, my God,” he proclaims gleefully.
Kojima is visiting Australia for a sold-out chat with Miller, the creator of the Mad Max film franchise, at the Sydney film festival. The two struck up an unlikely but fierce friendship nearly a decade ago, and Kojima says that, as a teenager, the first two Mad Max films inspired him to become a movie director and thus, eventually, a video game maker. At the panel later, Miller is equally effusive, calling Kojima “almost my brother”; the Australian even lent his appearance to a major character in Kojima’s latest game, Death Stranding 2.
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Starship 36 was preparing for 10th test flight from Texas when it underwent ‘catastrophic failure’ while on stand
One of Elon Musk’s SpaceX Starships has exploded during a routine test in Texas, authorities said, in the latest setback to the billionaire’s dream of turning humanity into an interplanetary species.
The Starship 36 underwent “catastrophic failure and exploded” at the Starbase launch facility shortly after 11pm on Wednesday (0400 GMT Thursday), a Facebook post by the Cameron County authorities said.
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