Preparing for a RDDoS extortion attack
Ransom attacks dominate cybercrime headlines. May’s Colonial Pipeline attack reduced US east coast fuel supply by 45 percent, resolved only by a $4.4 million ransom payment. In the weeks that followed, President Joe Biden even went as far as calling on Vladimir Putin to move against ransomware groups operating from Russia. Unsurprisingly, these incidents have sparked a number of high-profile …
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Zero the hero! Apple’s new Mail Protection Privacy and what it means for marketing
Imagine you lived in a house in a picturesque village and one day you decided to take a walk to the big city because you needed to buy something in a large shop there. On your way you have to cross a road. It’s only small, there are no cars. However, the next road is much bigger and extremely busy. …
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Wix vs Squarespace | ITProPortal
The best website builders like Wix and Squarespace are excellent for non-coders who want to create professional websites. The entire process of building and maintaining a website is simplified and streamlined, and you can build a site just by choosing from a template and dragging elements onto your pages. What’s more, you get site hosting, a domain name, professional templates, …
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Pattern-based authentication: Solving the password problem
Passwords and PINs have become a ubiquitous part of our daily lives; we use them at ATMs, to unlock our phones and to access various online accounts. This solution has, however, given rise to its own set of password-associated problems. How do we manage to remember all the different combinations that give us access to our vital information or services? …
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Shadow IT and security threats as holidays take off
It has been several weeks since “Freedom Day”. Nearly all remaining Covid laws came to an end after a long 18 months; restrictions around overseas travel have eased, and fully vaccinated adults returning to England from amber list countries will no longer need to self-isolate. With these changes, we can certainly expect more holidays abroad – and so more employees …
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Making supply chains fit for the future
When we’re munching on asparagus in winter or sourcing hi-tech automotive components from the other side of the world, it’s easy to get the feeling that we’ve defeated distance and gained mastery of the globe. And then the pandemic hit. All of a sudden, the supermarket shelves we’ve long expected to be groaning with surplus were standing empty, and production …
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Cybersecurity and remote working: How to equip and empower a safe and secure remote workforce
Only back in 2018, people suggested the growth of remote working was grinding to a halt, with only 6 percent of the UK workforce operating remotely on a regular basis. What’s more, remote working was only typically available to a select few, namely those working in the tech sector, where the parameters and expectations were clear and obvious. The rest …
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Understand your customers to build the perfect small business website
Every small business thrives or fails based on how it treats its customers. Keep their needs front-of-mind, and you’ll strengthen trust, enhance repeat sales, and boost your revenue. Fail to understand your customer, and you’ll drive them into the arms of a competitor. When you’re building a small business website with one of the best website builders or one of …
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Migrating to the cloud is the top priority for most firms
The amount of unstructured data harvested by enterprises is growing fast, forcing organizations to improve their data management strategies and move deeper into the cloud. This is according to a new report from data management firm Komprise, based on a poll of 320 IT and storage professionals, which states that more than half (56 percent) are now prioritizing moving more …
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Businesses still face the same old cloud migration problems
Cloud migration has been a priority for businesses for years now, but even with organizations having shifted much of their data, the same old problems still persist. This is according to a new report from automated cloud migration company Next Pathway. Polling approximately 1000 IT decision-makers for the report, the company found that more than half of firms (54.1 percent) …
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