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,…
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 news is…
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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…
We have discussed the changing IT landscape as the age of digitisation gains traction and growth in connectivity continue apace. The cyber attack surface is increasing and so is the scale and sophistication of attacks as identified by Cisco in it’s latest annual cyber security report. Security breaches will continue to happen because there is…
So now we have confirmed what we already knew, the era of digitisation is bringing unimaginable opportunities for business innovation and differentiation. The big BUT is that our traditional approach to securing IT assets needs to be transformed and be relevant for the emerging world of large scale remote working, cloud based applications and massive…
In our series exploring the changing IT security landscape, we look at the drivers behind cloud adoption and some of the challenges it presents. Cloud adoption has gathered pace to become the dominant form of user access with Software as a Service (SaaS) applications becoming the norm. This growing trend means that direct branch…