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Top Tip - Start Looking Early in Your Second Year So, you're a university student dreaming of a third-year cybersecurity placement. You've survived fresher's week, learned that "phishing" isn't about trout, and mastered the art of submitting assignments 3 minutes before the deadline. Progress! But now comes the real boss level: finding a cyber...

Celebrating Neurodiversity As our company name, Computer Network Defence Ltd, suggests, we monitor business networks and catch computer hackers. When an incident is detected, we need our highly trained analysts to investigate the activity and triage the threat as quickly as possible. We feel this is best achieved by embracing diversity in all its f...

Ethical hacking, penetration testing, red teaming, offensive security. Those words evoke an image of someone with a black hoodie up, coding whilst a wall of binary scrolls slowly behind. The binary is usually green for good measure. So, over the last few years this has become to de facto 'cool' job. The idea of using malicious techniques, developin...

With digital landscapes evolving, cyber security has become a critical concern for businesses and organisations across the UK. As cyber threats continue to emerge, the demand for skilled professionals in this sector has skyrocketed. This article will cover serval topics around how the UK is ranking in cyber security across the globe, the best citie...

As things have changed rapidly over the past couple of tumultuous years, we've largely become accustomed to a new style of working. Whether businesses were keen on the idea initially or not, the idea of home working fast became an unavoidable reality for most within the world of cyber security. But now, at the point where office working can once ag...