Cybersecurity News, Advice and Opinion

UK Government to Invest £85m in Cybersecurity for Local Authorities

The inaugural Government Cyber Security Strategy plans to allocate £85m of investment in cybersecurity to local authorities.

Why Corporate Password Policies Don’t Work

It’s no secret that passwords pose a significant problem for organisations. The oldest and most common form of digital authentication is also the least secure, with...

How IAM Can Turn Shadow IT From a Weakness to a Strength

Shadow IT can be a controversial topic for CIOs, and with McAfee estimating that unauthorised cloud usage is at least ten times higher of that known to IT...

The Enterprise Risks of Personal Password Managers

With the average enterprise organisation using 288 different cloud applications, individual users simply have too many credentials to remember, and resort to poor...

Why MFA Alone is Not Enough to Protect Organisations From Data Breaches

To meet the increasing cyber security challenges posed by the growth of cloud technology and remote working environments, many enterprises turn to Multi-Factor...

2021 in Review – Five of the Most Expensive Data Breaches

2021 saw a continued increase in the number of cyberattacks on businesses. According to Accenture, organisations experienced a 125% rise in incident rate...

The Long-term Cost of a Security Breach

The cost of a data breach has been rising steadily each year, with the average in 2021 coming in at £3.2m, an increase from £2.9m in 2020. Much of this comes from...

The Business Cost of Manual User Deprovisioning

With the average enterprise using 288 different cloud applications, the task of provisioning and deprovisioning user access has become increasingly complex. Manual...

Five reasons organisations are investing in Identity and Access Management

Identity and Access Management (IAM) is continuing to attract investment from businesses, with over 80% of global IT decision makers having already adopted or...

5 Mistakes Organisations Make That Cause Data Breaches

The frequency and severity of data breaches are continuing to grow, with the cost of the average breach rising again in 2021 to over £3 million. The previous year,...