Intelligent CISO Issue 04 | Page 12

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. news M 12 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. A 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. Issue 04 | www.intelligentciso.com