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In our final part of Cisco’s 68 page 2018 Annual Cyber Security Report, we summarise the key findings and highlight the main takeaways contained in the report. While most of the information is already known, put in context it gives a thorough view of the changing landscape and importantly identifies some of the steps that Information Security […]
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 […]
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 […]
Download: A View of the Cybercrime Threat Landscape $2,235,018 per year The average amount SMBs spent in the aftermath of a cyber attack or data breach due to damage or theft of IT assets and disruption to normal operations. The amount is staggering, and enough to jeopardize the viability of many companies. Yet the business […]
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 […]
Ransomware is currently the number one form of cyber attack due to its profitability and simplicity in execution. It is now evolving as a business model where any ‘Joe Bloggs’ can buy ransomware code for a monthly fee – ransomware as a service. Ransomware thrives partly because of bitcoin and the associated anonymity of attackers […]
So it’s all happening in the cloud. Wholesale adoption of cloud services is now a business imperative as the opportunities and benefits of SaaS become ever clearer. Here are some numbers though that tell us not only what’s happening but also some concerns that we need to have at the forefront of our minds. 82% […]