Coronavirus: Business Continuity During a Global Crisis
By Nicole Alvino, Cofounder and Chief Strategy Officer, SocialChorus We’re living through an unprecedented time, globally and for how long, none of us are that sure. While the new coronavirus may seem like a singular threat, dealing with crises is a fact of doing business—one companies can expect to encounter with increasing frequency. According to PWC, 69% […]
Make the Most of Your People with the Benefits of Automation
By Ofer Elzam, Vice President & GM, FireMon GPC Gone are the days when IT leaders fretted that the benefits of automation would shove people out of jobs. If anything, it’s the opposite: 74% of cybersecurity professionals say that a skills shortage has affected their organizations, continuing a trend of concern over the past few […]
GUEST BLOG: Future proof with a cloud solution before it’s too late
Agile business models have never been more important – and for most MSPs the on-premises business is rapidly turning from predictable income stream to concerning business constraint. When it comes to cloud-based versus on-premises, the writing is on the wall – from the opex versus capex argument to better disaster recovery (DR) and enhanced security, most […]
More than half of companies have over 1,000 exposed sensitive files
By Matt Lock (pictured), Director of Sales Engineers UK, Varonis All an attacker needs to steal your valuable data is access. Unfortunately, many companies unknowingly give attackers access to their critical data. Personal identifying information on employees and customers, intellectual property, and more can easily make their way from secured systems to unprotected files and […]
Could your most trusted employee be your biggest threat?
95% of cyber security breaches are due to human error, which in reality means it could be any user, at any time. The best bit? They probably won’t even know they’re doing something wrong, but they have inadvertently just become an unintentional insider threat. As Andy Pearch, Head of IA Services, CORVID, explains, organisations need to stop playing […]
Cybersecurity and Financial Services – How Can Organisations Combat the Threat?
By Genevra Champion, Sector Marketing Manager, IT Governance The financial services industry is naturally a lucrative target for cyber criminals. Financial organisations trade and control vast amounts of money, as well as collect and store customers’ personal information so clearly, a data breach could be disastrous for an industry that is built on trust with its customers. The financial services industry is […]
GUEST BLOG: SME collaboration delivering effective Public Sector IT security
Written by Bernard Parsons, CEO, Becrypt When Becrypt began developing security technology for government more than a decade ago, relationships with Systems Integrators were the only viable route to understanding and accessing customer requirements. Our experiences today are of a vastly more diverse supply chain, with some major government programmes consuming our services as part of […]
GDPR post Brexit: What will the impact be on hosting and cloud providers?
By Güneş Ilgüy, Head of Data Protection at A City Law Firm The UK needed to upgrade its data privacy laws and bring it in line with the rest of the world. The main reason for the GDPR was to assist in harmonising the data privacy laws across Europe, setting a standard that the nations could […]
Under lock and key: how can the public sector keep data safe?
Dan Panesar, VP EMEA, Certes Networks The public sector faces intense public scrutiny, especially when it comes to cybersecurity. However, the launch of the National Cyber Security Centre in (NCSC) in 2016 suggests that the sector is beginning to take the issue of cybersecurity seriously, marking the Government’s commitment to making the UK a safe place […]
Guest Blog: The cyber resilience model
For too long, organisations have sought the holy grail of 100% Cyber Security. But security is never absolute; it is essential to understand that a breach is inevitable. It is the way in which organisations respond to a cyber security breach that is critical. Alan Calder, Chief Executive of GRC International plc, parent company of […]
