Three reasons why businesses need to build their cyber defences

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Three reasons why businesses need to build their cyber defences

Posted on November 19, 2019

By Joe Collinwood, CEO of Cysure The number of cyber-crime incidents recorded by the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) increased from 69 in 2017 to 819 in 2018 – an increase of 1000%. However, the finance sector is not alone. Joe Collinwood, CEO at CySure explains why in the technological …

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Getting data security right

Posted on November 15, 2019

By Benjamin Ross, International Director, Delphix This year has seen the pressures facing business reach new heights. Extremely intricate IT environments require businesses to constantly upgrade their applications. They need to improve on efficiencies and comply with tight regulations while keeping up with modern applications, as well as moving operations …

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Cybercrime-as-a-Service

Posted on November 14, 2019

These days it seems that every form of IT technology is being offered as a service, thus creating a burgeoning market where companies are providing organizations with an array of software- as -a- service solutions, infrastructure-as-a-service solutions, and platform-as-a-service solutions. It is not only the entrepreneurs, business executives, and investors …

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How do you protect a company against the evolving phish?

Posted on November 13, 2019

By Adam Vincent, CEO at ThreatConnect October marked European Cyber Security Month, a campaign aimed at raising awareness of cybersecurity threats and offering guidance to European citizens on best practises to stay safe online. With much talk in the media about state-sponsored hacking, complex breaches and whole teams of criminal …

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Ensuring SMEs are in the driving seat to tackle cybersecurity

Posted on November 7, 2019

By Michael Whitfield is Managing Director at InsurTech firm CPP Group UK. In the chaos of establishing and growing a small business, it is easy to lose sight of the importance of cybersecurity. Founders and CEOs are often too caught up in the day-to-day running of their businesses to take …

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The growing security stack, and why it’s not being used to its full potential

Posted on October 29, 2019

By Andrew Bushby, UK director at Fidelis Cybersecurity Despite an accelerated proliferation of cyber-threats, and ever-expanding attack vectors for organisations to consider, many security teams continue to work with outdated, complicated and inefficient security infrastructures. Indeed, some procurements contain more than ten different categories of cybersecurity technologies from multiple vendors. …

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Security vs. convenience: Delivering seamless, secure service experiences

Posted on October 25, 2019

By John Watkins, Industry Consultant: Fraud Strategy and Intelligence Division at SAS Customer identity is a precious asset and a highly prized commodity. As the financial services industry has become more digitised down the years, customers’ digital identity decides what they can do and what online services they have access to. …

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Threat intelligence: using data against cyberattacks

Posted on October 15, 2019

By Paul Colwell, technical director, CyberGuard Technologies Small businesses in the UK are facing 10,000 cyberattacks every day[1], with the annual cost of the attacks estimated at £4.5 billion, and the average cost of an individual attack around £1,300[2]. Perhaps surprisingly, despite these figures, cybercrime protection is often a secondary …

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Cybersecurity and the 5G era

Posted on October 10, 2019

By Iain Shearman, Managing Director at KCOM Technology is transforming the world around us at an exponential rate and public and private sector organisations must embrace digital transformation or risk falling behind the times. Concepts such as the Internet of Things (IoT) that not too long ago seemed a distant, …

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