So, you think you already know the good, the bad, and the ugly about cybersecurity threats, such as malware and phishing, that small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) are facing? You may be surprised. People often make a number of assumptions that can easily miss the mark. There is a tendency to fall into the trap
Improve backup and restore performance, while lowering data management costs and overhead. It used to be that all you needed your Disaster Recovery (DR) strategy to worry about were tornadoes, floods, power outages, andthe occasional monster attack. These days disasters have taken on new and more subtle forms thanks to the increase in malware and
A recent incident with a new Sophos Managed Threat Response (MTR) customer has raised questions about the Mount Locker ransomware group and the relationship it has with Astro Locker Team. A ransomware detection for Mount Locker kicked the MTR team into gear and what they found was surprising. The first detection made it clear what the team
By Natan Linder | Forbes If there’s ever been a year that merited reflection, it’s 2020. A year as tumultuous as the last is hard to generalise – what did we actually learn about manufacturing? The answer is best given by the people who lived these changes. As a disclaimer, there was simply too much
There is an awful lot to be positive about right about now… The UK has vaccinated 30M+ people with 4m+ having had both vaccines, we are coming out of our enforced national hibernation, the clocks have gone forward with night now falling at 7:30pm+, the weather is improving and the economy after a dreadful spring
Research Finds That Too Little Exposure To Phishing Emails Can Make Users More Susceptible To Them. The Key Is Finding The Right Cadence Of Simulated Phishing Campaigns. Key Points: Humans require occasional exposure to maintain vigilance against social engineering threats. Automated spam filtering reduces exposure to these threats and may inadvertently cause us to be
Our customer newsletter back in August 2020 outlined the investments that we were making in our employees during #COVID19. This investment was aligned to our new solution sets which covered emerging client requirements such as modern workplace, data / governance and communication / collaboration. The full Summer newsletter can be reviewed here: https://www.pav.co.uk/blog/its-about-timefor-our-august-newsletter/. Many of
It’s easy to pinpoint when the global health crisis forever changed the security landscape. All of a sudden, at exactly the same time, the workforces of entire organizations went remote. And so did the technology teams supporting them. It’s clear that most organizations won’t be returning to office-based working on the same level as before.
False Positive Security Alerts Will Keep Draining Cybersecurity Team Resources And Performance Until Automation Is Fully Implemented And Tightly Integrated. Key Points: In the midst of an “alert overload,” cybersecurity professionals face a particularly acute problem of managing the deluge of false positive alerts. New survey data underscores the impact on sustainable security as well
Between announcing at RSA Conference in February and launching now in June, our integrated security platform Cisco SecureX has struck a chord in the security market. We know this because the reaction to our announcement was greater than expected by an order of magnitude. We saw an oversubscription to the wait list for beta, and
Making Security an Enabler, so Your Business Can Take an Exponential Leap by Jeff Reed I joined the Cisco Security team the week after the RSA Conference in 2017. At that time there was a lot of discussion around the journey Cisco Security was on, particularly around our efforts to deliver an integrated architecture. For
Productivity and Automation projects have been rife in every vertical over the last 20 or so years, under the banner of Innovation, Disruptive Technology or Digital Transformation. Call it what you like, but it all boils down to being a project focussed on improving productivity or task automation. I have often been asked what the