More Brits are planning to start their own business this year
Despite the Covid-19 pandemic wreaking havoc among entrepreneurs, many have not been discouraged and will start even more businesses this year. A new report from NatWest found that these people will need all the help they can get to make things work. Partnering with various business schools and universities across the country, the bank polled some 9,400 adults, and discovered …
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Cementing brand experience gains after a year of transformation
To say customer behavior and expectations have changed significantly as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic risks understates just how dramatic the past year has been. The results from a recent Sitecore survey of thousands of global consumers and marketers show that a revolution is underway in terms of the future of customer experience. Over three quarters (77 percent) of …
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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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Phishing attacks hit a huge number of businesses last year
In the past year, almost three-quarters (73 percent) of businesses suffered a data breach as a result of a successful phishing campaign. The trend can be partly attributed to remote working, as businesses struggle to maintain visibility and protect their remote workers, a new report from Egress suggests. Based on a poll of 500 IT leaders and 3,000 employees in …
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IT spending set for another year of growth
Businesses are expected to spend a total of $4.2 trillion on information technology (IT) this year, an increase of 8.6 percent on 2020, a new report from Gartner suggests. The analyst firm claims organizations are still suffering revenue declines, but that many of them are increasing their IT spending ahead of revenue expectations. However, boards and the C-Suite are not …
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UK SMBs racked up billions in sales on Amazon last year
When the pandemic forced people inside, it also sent them online for all kinds of purposes, including shopping. A new report from Amazon shows that UK small and medium-sized businesses earned more than $4.8 billion in export sales last year, representing a 20 percent spike compared to the year before. As reported by City AM, more than 14,000 UK SMBs …
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Majority of large businesses caught up in supply chain attacks last year
The majority of large enterprises (64 percent) suffered a software supply chain attack last year, according to a report from security company Anchore. Based on a poll of IT, security and DevOps leaders at 425 companies, the report states that the use of software containers is on the rise thanks to the widespread use of DevOps processes to speed up …
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Remote working led to a rise in cyberattacks last year
Remote working has caused an uptick in the number of cyberattacks and data breaches, research from Atlas VPN suggests. The latest report from the VPN provider states that almost four in five (78 percent) organizations experienced an increase in the volume of cyberattacks as a direct result of the shift to remote working. According to Atlas VPN, unpatched personal devices, …
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These were some of the biggest email security threats of last year
Covid-19-themed email threats still dominate the email threat landscape, a new report from cybersecurity experts Trustwave says. These threats are often combined with malicious Office documents and compromised Office 365 accounts for maximum impact. According to the report, Microsoft Excel file attachments were the single biggest attachment type used by criminals last year, as they took up 39 percent of …
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New working patterns set to drive massive IT spend this year
Businesses will be spending a lot more money on productivity and collaboration tools this year, as they look to support remote and hybrid workers. This is according to a new report from Dynabook Europe, called The Hybrid Shift: Managing an increasingly remote workforce. Polling more than 1,000 senior IT decision-makers at medium to large enterprises within the UK, France, Germany, …
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