Why brands shouldn’t be relying solely on ecommerce to win post-pandemic

An e-commerce professional starting an article by saying retailers shouldn’t rely solely on e-commerce for future growth? Hear me out.   Undoubtedly, e-commerce has been one of the biggest success stories of the past year.  While being forced to do everything from our homes for almost a year stopped many sectors in their tracks, e-commerce rocketed. There’s no speculation about …

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Best apps to share files securely: for safe file-sharing

In the modern working world, especially since the COVID-19 pandemic began, file-sharing has played an increasingly important role. The software, often forming part of the best cloud storage solutions, can have a huge effect on how a business’s employees interact with one another, as well as their overall efficiency. Now that so many people are working from home full- or …

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What is Google Cloud storage?

Google Cloud is a flexible cloud storage product with several options for the way you can manage and store your data. It’s one of the largest public cloud storage systems in the world, along with Amazon, Microsoft, IBM, and Oracle, and offers unified object storage to enterprises and developers alike.  In this article, we explain the difference between Google Cloud …

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Reducing cloud storage costs: what you need to know

Digital transformation has been fast-tracked by the COVID-19 pandemic, meaning that many businesses now find themselves in a predominantly online environment. With the proliferation of new technologies that enable agility and flexibility, a large number of businesses have been left wondering how they can reap the benefits of a more online world without racking up exorbitant costs.  Taking this into …

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Rapid employee turnover linked with higher likelihood of data breaches

When employees quit their job and move elsewhere, they often take sensitive data with them. This is according to a new report from cybersecurity experts at Unit 42, who claim there’s a “strong correlation” between employee turnover and data breaches. Over the course of the first half of 2021, Unit 42 analyzed data from more than 700,000 endpoints. During that …

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How NFTs are blending collectibles with practicality

They can be as elaborate or as simplistic as you can imagine – and they might just turn you into the world’s third most expensive living artist. NFTs have taken the cryptocurrency landscape by storm, and although they may lack the physical presence of more traditional artworks, their digital nature may well make them even more practical than we could …

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Navigating the public sector cybersecurity storm

From a public sector perspective, over the last eighteen months the demands on IT have been greater than ever before. The initial strain came at the outset of the pandemic when IT departments within public sector organizations were forced to rapidly implement remote working for their own staff. The focus was on keeping the lights on and ensuring service continuity. …

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Can the UK compete globally on online retail?

Around the world, eCommerce is experiencing skyrocketing growth. For the year 2021, the sector is expected to reach a sales value of $4.89 trillion. Indeed, online retail as a proportion of total retail sales in the UK nearly doubled, up from 19.5 percent in January 2020 to 35.2 percent in January 2021. Questions over the sustainability of this boom once …

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Bots are costing businesses millions every year

Every year, businesses lose the equivalent of 3.6 percent of their revenue to bot attacks, according to a new report from Netacea. For a quarter of businesses affected (25 percent), this amounts to a quarter of a million dollars lost. The bot management firm says the average enterprise takes three months to spot a bot attack, mostly because they don’t …

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Cybercriminals are making a killing selling access to business networks

Hackers are earning massive amounts of money selling access to compromised networks on the dark web, a new paper from cyber threat intelligence firm IntSights asserts. The company’s researchers sifted through both Russian and English-speaking dark web forums and found that attackers often sell access to compromised networks to other groups.  Sometimes they found they were not skilled enough to …

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