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High Wycombe, UK – 29th July 2020
Activereach – a top UK cybersecurity integrator based in High Wycombe, and Netskope – a global leader in cloud security, have boosted their partnership by donating much needed personal protective equipment (PPE) to local community charity, WWSET.
Further to a recent period of successful joint trading, both businesses felt that it was important to give back to the community that supports them.
Gartner’s latest report, Managing Privileged Access in Cloud Infrastructure, estimates that within the next 3 years, three-quarters of security incidents in the cloud will involve Mismanagement of identities, access and privilege. This equates to a 50% increase and will make it the number one reason for cloud security failures.
As businesses move more and more data and services to the cloud, protecting cloud infrastructure is vital.
more →Even before Covid-19 the cybersecurity threat landscape was evolving at a frightening pace. The combination of people spending more time online and their uncertainty around the elements of the pandemic and its consequences has played right into the hands of cybercriminals. Now threat actors are taking full advantage of Covid-19 with a vast portfolio of scams, including ransomware and phishing campaigns.
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This month we are sharing a blog from our partner Swimlane discussing how SOAR can improve your cybersecurity.
Security orchestration, automation and response (SOAR) goes beyond automating tasks that used to be handled manually by working together to effectively, and even proactively, improve your cybersecurity operations.
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Who are Gen Z?
Last year Gen Z became the largest generation, constituting 32 percent of the global population. But what is Generation Z? Definitions vary but are thought to be those born between the mid-1990s and the mid-2000s. Pew Research pins this down to 1997 onwards, with Forbes citing Generation Alpha as 2010-2025.
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For most UK businesses, the shift to respond to the Coronavirus lockdown was astonishingly rapid and reactive by necessity. The security teams that we worked with coped admirably with the adjustment and, at the time of writing, there have been no major or high-profile security incidents related to remote work in the UK (thankfully).
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This month we are sharing a blog from our partner Crowdstrike about the vulnerability in the cloud.
Companies are increasingly relying on cloud-based infrastructure, especially as more of their employees are working remotely — and may continue to do so.
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This month we are sharing a blog from our partner eSentire on how to prepare for the move back to the office (B2TO).
Practically every organization (that’s not wholly shut down) has been forced by COVID-19 into a rapid “digital transformation mode” by working from home, and to one degree or another they’re managing to keep operating.
more →As a new network manager to Fred Perry, I asked activereach to assist in our firewall migration work. They did a fantastic job of taking a previously outsourced service with no documentation and significantly improving security, working diligently and late into the evenings. At all times they kept me in the loop so that I could manage the system afterwards.
Misconfiguration is the greatest threat to data hosted in the public cloud, followed by loss and abuse of credentials, and insecure interfaces.
Source: IBM X-Force Threat Intelligence Index 2019
Solution: Security teams can benefit from using activereach's cloud firewall management services to have visibility of cloud assets on AWS, Azure, of Google's cloud services without the need for agent software. Servers can be forced to adopt default secure configurations, and be subject to audit against common regulatory frameworks like PCI DSS.
