The age of digitisation is a driving force spinning a web throughout business planning and strategy. Digitisation is transforming business norms, creating new and dominant players faster than any other time in history. Digitisation is such a powerful force because it is creating new ways of engagement between business, customers and stakeholders. This has resulted in more and more…
Download the Infographic The best way to counter rogue activity is with DNS-layer security that’s always-on … just like your end-users. What can you do to mitigate the risks associated with “off-network” access to sensitive data and applications? According to a recent IDG Research Services report, roaming workstyles are the new norm. Workers are dispersed,…
Cloud abuse on the rise according to Cisco Security Report Cisco’s Annual Cyber Security Report 2018 provides an insightful account into the changing cyber security landscape. This article summarises some findings of the report pertaining to cloud security. Some main take aways from the report that will be discussed in this blog include: Legitimate cloud…
We have been doing our cloud security blog now for a couple of weeks and decided to start to speak directly to some of the contacts who had been reading the blogs. I spoke to one contact from the legal sector (who shall remain nameless) who gave some very interesting feedback. The bad…
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Its been a cloudy blog of a fortnight (pardon the pun but I couldn’t help it). To summarise we have been looking at the changing IT landscape and the consequent change in the threat landscape. We then looked at how organisations need to change their approach to cloud security to address this new reality. …
We introduce another acronym yesterday, CASB (Cloud Access Security Broker) and we now expand on the features and benefits of deploying a CASB solution as we continue in our approach to cloud security. We noted in our previous blog that cloud security was a shared responsibility between service user and service provider. Gartner analysis indicates…
More organisations are adopting a cloud strategy to leverage cloud services and enjoy the associated speed of development and deployment. One of the biggest challenges, however, is creating the balance that provides an appropriate level of governance over the use of cloud applications that still empowers users to leverage these services. We recently highlighted…
In our previous blogs, we looked at the changing IT landscape and how cyber security protection needs to change to meet the new challenges and cyber threats. We know that cloud adoption in the form of SaaS is pervasive. Remote working is the norm providing increased flexibility, costs savings, higher productivity and generally a…
Adoption of cloud based technology and the proliferation of remote working is driving a new approach to security that needs to be omnipresent providing the highest practical levels of cyber security for the user, the network and the data. We reviewed some of the features that were needed for this new security approach…