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The CISO’s Guide to 2023 Spending Vigilance and Investments

Sharon Holland

The increase in ever-more complex data breaches and ransomware attacks is seeing the CISO bring the subject of the cybersecurity to the boardroom. It’s a proactive stance to provide adequate defences, rather a reactive move to counter a detected breach.

However, this all comes at a cost, and with The Economist suggesting that a global recession in 2023 is inevitable, justifying any big investments is going to be even harder.

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XDR: Separating Truth from “We Do That Too”

XDR isn’t a silver bullet. Security leaders will face many challenges if they haven’t invested in staffing and resources necessary to build a threat detection and response operation first. Many organizations who face this challenge outsource those capabilities to an MDR provider and activereach partner with eSentire who are the global leader in Managed Detection and Response.

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Adaptability And Resilience Will Remain Key For Cybersecurity In 2021

In 2020, breaches were the digital pandemic. Cybercriminals were provided with the opportunity to disrupt and target the weak areas of organizations that were not prepared to work remotely securely.

It is certainly true to say that we are all glad to see the back of 2020. But not withstanding these difficult and challenging times, what does the cybersecurity landscape look like in 2021?

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activereach Shakes up SaaS Market with New Monthly Payment Plans

Now, more than ever, businesses are keeping an eye on every penny they spend.  Whilst savings can be made by shelving or reducing the projects this not how businesses want to proceed.  To help businesses continue to invest in IT without significantly impacting their cash flow activereach is launching a pioneering new programme, activeFINANCE, enabling businesses to spread the cost of 1, 3 and 5-year licences via a monthly or quarterly payment plan.

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Grey outlook for cloud security

Sharon Holland

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.

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