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One in Three Not Worried About Cybersecurity Despite Rise in Threats
in Cyber Security, IT TipsAround one in three (31%) people in the UK are not actively concerned about cybersecurity, according to a study by ESET. In a survey of 2000 UK citizens, which looked at their cybersecurity habits, more than half (57%) do not believe they’ve been hacked and 46% claimed they have never noticed or fallen for an online […]
Ransomware: from Entry to Ransom in Under 45 Minutes
in Cyber Security, IT TipsRansomware gangs are performing wide-ranging internet scans to find vulnerable systems and then accelerating attacks to just minutes to capitalize on COVID-19, Microsoft has warned. Corporate VP of customer security and trust, Tom Burt, revealed the findings in a blog post introducing the firm’s Digital Defense Report yesterday. He claimed that threat actors have “rapidly increased sophistication” […]
How to perform an effective IT risk assessment
in Cyber Security, IT Tips“You can never protect yourself 100 per cent. What you do is protect yourself as much as possible and mitigate risk to an acceptable degree. You can never remove all risk.” So said Kevin Mitnick, arguably the world’s most famous hacker. Indeed, the ever-presence of risk makes performing IT risk assessments critical for every business. […]
Most UK Firms Admit #COVID19 Cloud Security Threat
in Cyber Security, IT TipsMost UK firms are set to increase digital adoption after admitting that the cloud saved their business from collapse during the early months of the COVID-19 crisis, but security remains a persistent challenge, according to new research. Identity management vendor Centrify surveyed 200 business decision makers in large and medium-sized UK firms in September, in […]
Report Outlines Importance of Providing Engaging User Awareness Training
in Cyber Security, IT TipsThe way cybersecurity awareness training is conducted in organizations has a huge bearing on employees’ subsequent security outlook and behaviors, according to a new report from Osterman Research. The researchers discovered that users who found security training “very interesting” were over 13-times more likely to make “fundamental changes” to how they think about security compared to those […]