Responding to a data breach becoming more challenging
13 August 2020
The IBM Cost of a Data Breach Report (2020), compiled with research data from the Ponemon Institute, surveyed over 500 organisations who experienced data breaches between August 2019 and April 2020. As the spread of Covid-19 was also creating challenges for business operations during the research period, participants were asked additional questions…
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Marking Your Own Homework
26 June 2020
Gartner recently predicted that through 2025, 99% of cloud security failures will be the customer’s fault. Whilst it might be a challenge to actually measure this prediction it also doesn’t seem to take into account that there is a reasonable possibility an IT contractor, or the employees of a System Integration company, might also play a part in a…
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DX Accelerating - as is Data Security Complexity
21 May 2020
At the end of April, Microsoft CEO, Satya Nadella was quoted in the media saying his company had seen two years’ worth of digital transformation (DX) in two months, with massive demand for remote teamwork and learning, sales and customer service, and critical cloud infrastructure and security. This major change was one of the reasons why Microsoft’…
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Testing times for video conferencing applications
09 April 2020
With the sudden uptake of “Work from Home” arrangements many organisations have quickly moved to deploy video conferencing applications to enable their staff to stay in contact with the business and customers. In the last 2 weeks there has been widespread media coverage regarding the security of some of these applications, and whether they are fit…
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