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?
more →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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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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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 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 →This month we are sharing a blog from our partner Crowdstrike.
The term “social distancing” has swept across the world. It is an incredibly important response measure during a pandemic. The term is not new; just over 100 years ago, cities across the U.S. introduced measures to limit public gatherings due to the outbreak of the Spanish flu.
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