Banks and businesses are constantly under pressure to keep their data, customers, and employees secure. This has heightened in the last few months, as the global pandemic has seen cybercriminals ramp up activity. The number of phishing websites increasing by 350% since the start of the year, and £16.6 million lost in shopping fraud losses since the beginning of lockdown. Furthermore, with more than 15 billion credentials circulating on the dark web, cybercriminals have everything they need to...
Read MoreThe coronavirus crisis has forced many companies to push ahead with digital transformation at high speed, causing many challenges for IT and security teams. Challenges include the need for extensive hardware purchases and new processes for home office work, but also connecting to the company’s own IT infrastructure and accessing files and apps that employees need. By Ian Pitt, CIO of LogMeIn.
Read MoreThe use of artificial intelligence (AI) is hugely prevalent in almost all aspects of our day-to-day lives including security. Looking at the security landscape, supervised machine learning (ML) is well established in threat detection but unsupervised ML and deep learning are increasingly popular tools for post breach anomaly detection. By Jeremy D’Hoinne, Research Vice President, Gartner.
Read MoreAlmost four in 10 people in the EU began working remotely in the first few months of 2020, according to a study carried out by Eurofund. This is a seismic shift considering that the amount of people who regularly worked remotely before the pandemic took hold ranged from as low as 6% to as high as 23%, depending on country. By Michael Cade, Senior Global Technologist, Veeam.
Read MoreCheck Point secures and streamlines management of NHS Scotland’s sensitive health data in the public cloud, and gives hyperscalability to support rapid roll-out of Covid-19 related apps and vaccine management systems.
Read MoreQOS Networks has introduced next-generation offerings that enable multi-cloud access, edge security, and network analytics to maximize return on investment. This includes delivering a managed SASE (Secure Access Service Edge) offering to their customers through expanded partnerships with market-leading SD-WAN platforms.
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