The cost of ransomware incidents is growing
It’s not just the cost of recovery, but the average ransom being paid that’s grown. Hackers are getting greedier, but they’re also getting more successful too… In a nutshell: According to the cybercrime report produced by Palo Alto Networks and the incident response team at Crypsis, criminals are making more money and demanding more money […]
Cybersecurity Round Up March 2021
March has been recorded as a month with lower-than-average records leaked per data breach, but that’s in no way reassuring. In fact, there was an exceptionally high number of breaches – 151 – during the month, and the reason that there were lower data record numbers recorded was in fact because of a surprisingly high […]
Cybersecurity Round Up February 2021
In one of the worst months on record for data breaches, more than 2.3 billion records were recorded as breached in February 2021, as successful ransomware attacks accelerated. Here’s what you need to know in our February cybersecurity recap: Hacker attempts to poison water supply… At the beginning of February, a hacker gained control of […]
What does your future office look like?
As we finally receive news of the four-stage exit from lockdown, attentions in the workplace naturally turn to the ‘future’ of work. Will employees be desperate for a return to the office and the much-missed human collaboration, or have they had a taste of the ‘good life’ and hope to continue working the majority of […]
Learning lessons from our own experiences
As an ISO27001:2013 certified business, we take cybersecurity extremely seriously…
Cyber Security Round Up January 2021
Following a chaotic end to 2020, which was a record-busting year for data breaches and security threats, January 2021 started relatively ‘quiet’, if you count 878 million records small.
Top tips to keep yourself safe using email
Email is one of the most important communication tools for businesses, so here are our top tips to stay safe…
Data Privacy Day – 28 January
Data Privacy Day aims to raise awareness of the importance of privacy in all of our lives…
Cybersecurity Round Up December 2020
Here are the top stories from December that you might have missed amidst all the festive cheer…