Cybersecurity News, Advice and Opinion

Passwordless is the future, but what can you do when an application does not support it?

The annual costs of cybercrime are estimated to continue to grow at 15% each year until 2025. With high-profile attacks on organisations frequently in the news,...

Why Phishing is so Effective at Stealing Corporate Data

Phishing is not a new phenomenon, but it continues to grow at a rapid pace and remains the most common form of cyberattack. According to Cisco, 86% of organisations...

Ransomware Attacks – Why IAM is a key defence

The rapid growth of ransomware attacks is showing little sign of abating, with 37% of organisations hit by a ransomware attack in 2021, according to Sophos. The...

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...