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Where Wales is leading the race to Industry 4.0 (and what’s holding us back)

04 Jul 2021

According to government figures, the Welsh cyber industry now employs 45,000 people and contributes more than £8 billion a year to the Welsh economy. And we’ve only just started. The potential – for success but also for failure – is enormous. Here’s why…

The people who want to destroy you (and how to stop them)

11 Jun 2021

Somewhere in the valleys of South Wales, a team of hackers is quietly working out how to take over your production facility. They are ruthless. They are relentless. And they are very, very good at what they do…

How SMEs are threatening the Welsh economy (and what you can do about it)

04 Jun 2021

According to Welsh government statistics, there were an estimated 267,000 enterprises active in Wales in 2019. 99.4% of those are Small to Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs). Together, they account for 62.4% of our jobs, employing around 1.2 million people and generating a combined annual turnover of £122.5 billion…

How connectivity can compromise critical national infrastructure (and how to avoid the pitfalls of Industry 4.0)

04 Jun 2021

When news of a cyber-attack against a water treatment plant in Florida reached our CNI cyber-security experts recently, it was received with a sense of weary inevitability. The same mess; a different day…

Britain’s industrial powerhouse meets tech valley: A tale of regeneration

06 Apr 2021

Ebbw Vale is a technology town. It wasn’t always. It was once rural, a place of tiny farms on rural mountains. All of that changed when enterprising engineers and businessmen discovered what was underneath…

ResilientWorks living laboratory announced for Ebbw Vale

30 Mar 2021

Thales and the Welsh Government have announced the next stage of development to create a living laboratory campus for cyber trust at the former steelworks site in Ebbw Vale…

Thales steps up to support NHS Wales in virus fight as hackers exploit Coronavirus crisis

16 Apr 2020

As health services across the world battle the Coronavirus, NHS Wales is stepping up its defence against viruses of the technological kind thanks to a partnership with global cyber leader Thales…

NHS Wales fights back against cyber crime

30 Apr 2020

NHS Wales has responded to a surge in cyber-attacks against the healthcare sector by enlisting the services of some of the world’s leading cyber security experts…

Thales joins new taskforce to support Wales through the Covid-19 crisis

08 Apr 2020

Thales has joined Tech Taskforce for Wales, which was recently formed to give a first line of free advice and support to businesses of all sizes as the COVID-19 pandemic develops…