Mimecast acquires
cybersecurity
training platform
Ataata, Inc
imecast Limited, a leading email
and data security company,
has announced it has acquired
Ataata, Inc. Ataata is a cybersecurity
training and awareness platform designed
to reduce human error in the workplace
and help enable organisations become
more secure by changing the security
culture of their employees. The acquisition
will allow customers to measure cyber-
risk training effectiveness by converting
behaviour observations into actionable
risk metrics for security professionals.
The addition of security awareness
training and risk scoring and analysis
strengthens Mimecast’s cyber-resilience
for email capabilities. The acquisition of
Ataata will offer customers a single, cloud
platform that is engineered to mitigate risk
and reduce employee security mistakes
by calculating employee security risk
based on sentiment and behaviour while
connecting them with relevant training
that is content based on their score and
recommended areas for improvement.
The solution is designed to allow security
teams to dial up security settings at the
employee level by leveraging real-world
data to train employees to spot threats
that are targeting them today. Peter Bauer,
Chief Executive Officer and Founder of
Mimecast, said it was ‘essential’ that
businesses and organisations educate
their employees in a way that changes
behaviour as cyberattacks continue to
find new ways to bypass traditional threat
detection methods.
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NEW SECURITY CENTRE MARCHES
AHEAD IN FIGHT AGAINST CYBERCRIME
joint venture between the
University of Wolverhampton
and Herefordshire Council
has secured £9 million funding to
develop a new Centre for Cyber
Security in Hereford, England.
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The University of Wolverhampton has
approved £1.5 million to contribute
to the centre and has secured
grant funding of £4 million from
the Marches LEP Local Growth
Fund and £1.16 million of European
Regional Development Fund (ERDF).
Herefordshire Council has approved
funding of £3.5 million to contribute
to the centre, which will be located
on Skylon Park in the Hereford
Enterprise Zone.
The new centre will offer high
quality research facilities through
the University’s Cyber Security
Research Institute as well as
providing office space for
cyberbusinesses and advanced
training facilities designed specifically
to tackle threats in cyberspace.
Cybercrime currently costs the UK
between £18 billion and £27 billion
a year. A total of 65% of all large UK
companies reported a breach in the last
year and threats to cybersecurity are
persistent and constantly evolving.
The new centre will provide innovation
workspace for small and start-up
businesses to operate from, offering
consultancy support from the university
and shared facilities including
laboratory space and training rooms. It
will offer a range of specialist facilities
for the cybersector including server
space and high-speed broadband as
well as research and development
laboratory space.
Building works are expected to start
on the new Cyber Security Centre
in November 2018 with completion
expected by spring 2020.
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