The best online security suite of 2020

In this day and age when crime has spread into the technological sphere and has been active there for quite some time, your devices’ online security should never be taken lightly. There are some truly outstanding basic antivirus solutions that will keep your individual devices safe but sometimes the best approach is ‘one suite to rule them all’ – yours …

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Password stealing and banking trojans have doubled in recent years

Trojans that steal passwords and banking information from their victims have been constantly on the rise for the past two years. According to fresh figures from AT&T’s Alien Labs Open Threat Exchange, the number of threats increased between Q3 2019 and Q3 2020 by 130 percent. A year before that – Q3 2018 to Q3 2019, the number of threats …

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Shoppers are willing to swap personal data for discounts

Despite the holiday season being the perfect opportunity for scammers, many consumers are happily turning a blind eye to that fact. According to a new report by Kaspersky, consumers are happily sharing their private information with various retailers in exchange for the promise of a discount, and don’t really care if the website they’re browsing looks suspicious. While the majority …

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Why the cloud is a competitive advantage in the age of Covid-19

Before the Covid-19 pandemic arrived, the lower administration costs, flexibility, scalability, and other advantages of the cloud were already leading many organizations to move more of their data and applications to the cloud. For example, in 2018 research firm Gartner predicted that 75 percent of organizations would deploy a multi-cloud or hybrid cloud model by the end of 2020. And …

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Covid-19 and the search for digital talent

It’s hard to find a silver lining to Covid-19 – especially when you consider the state of the UK economy. The pandemic has caused a recession and has wreaked havoc across a range of industries such as manufacturing, aviation and retail. Women have been badly hit by the pandemic, cancelling any significant gains previously made in the labor force. So …

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IT hinders UK public sector response to pandemic

In all of Europe, the UK’s public services sector experienced the biggest shift to remote working, during the Covid-19 pandemic. They were also the ones most critical of the IT solutions that were supposed to help them do their job, saying that instead, it hindered their efforts. Polling 3,500 public servants all over Europe, BearingPoint found that almost two thirds …

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Protecting information in the “gig economy”

As workforces continue to evolve and adapt to the Covid-19 pandemic, the door is open for organizations to hire workers from anywhere around the country to offer their skills remotely as needed, often as a freelancer or gig worker. While this outgrowth of the burgeoning gig economy stands to benefit many businesses in need, it’s important that you assess your …

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IT leaders find on-prem systems ‘not capable of reacting to rapid change’

For the vast majority of decision-makers worldwide (77 percent), on-premise IT systems and enterprise applications are simply not capable of reacting to rapid change, which has become nothing short of a necessity in today’s environment. This is according to a new report from enterprise software provider Unit4, which states that, in order to become more agile and competitive, businesses are …

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Cybersecurity professionals worry about breaking the law when defending their organization

Cybersecurity professionals are struggling to balance the need to defend their organizations and the need to adhere to laws and regulations. This is according to a new report from the CyberUp Campaign and TechUK, which argues that the Computer Misuse Act, a piece of legislation that has been in effect since 1990, hinders efforts to protect business assets. The legislation …

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