Digital innovation offers companies several advantages, ranging from greater profitability and lower costs to increased employee productivity and the ability to provide better customer service. That said, more digital solutions increase the size of an organisation’s attack surface – giving cybercriminals more options for breaching their IT infrastructure and compromising sensitive data and assets. In light of this, it’s not … Read More
Top Data Privacy Tips For Online Safety
In today’s fast-paced and increasingly competitive business landscape, digital innovation isn’t just desirable if an organisation wants to thrive – it’s essential for it to survive. Fortunately, between modern software development practices, such as low-code and no-code, and cloud-based applications and services (SaaS, PaaS, IaaS), digital innovation is easier than ever. However, more digital solutions mean more digitised data, and … Read More
Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) vs VPN
Between a mass migration to cloud computing environments in recent years, as well as the prolific and growing use of mobile and IoT devices, modern IT ecosystems are becoming increasingly different from traditional network setups. Subsequently, securing your company’s network perimeter is no longer sufficient for protecting your sensitive data and assets. Additionally, although a shift to people working at … Read More
What is mobile malware?
Mobile malware is designed to target mobile devices, such as smartphones and tablets, with the aim of accessing private data. Mobile malware is a growing threat to organisations of any size because many businesses now allow their employees to access corporate networks using their own devices. Not only does this increase the potential for bringing unknown threats into the company … Read More
CIS Critical Security Controls for Effective Cyber Defense: What are They?
Established in 2000, the Centre of Internet Security (CIS) is a global, non-profit community of experts that collectively develops tools, solutions, and best practices for increasing cyber security and mitigating cyber risk. As well as being renowned for their Benchmarks, which are used to reduce configuration-based vulnerabilities in digital assets, they have developed a cyber risk mitigation framework called the … Read More
What are the Risks of Emerging Technologies in Cyber Security?
Technological advancements help push society forward, making our lives safer and more convenient while increasing our overall quality of life. In some cases, new technology saves lives: allowing us to grow better quality food in higher quantities, make water drinkable, and cure diseases. However, emerging technologies in cyber security are a double-edged sword as they come with new cyber threats. … Read More
How to Maintain Data Integrity in Your Organisation?
Business decisions in organisations of all sizes are increasingly being made based on data. Data is created and collected across many different layers of operations. The data extracted is used to streamline operations, better understand the market, and generate metrics to determine performance. With the increased focus placed upon data to maintain business operations today, it is crucial that the … Read More
Examples of Real-Life Data Breaches Caused by Insider Threats
In organisations of all sizes, there are often a large number of employees that know the ins and outs of a company’s cybersecurity tools and infrastructure. This is the reason behind thousands of inadvertent and malicious insider attacks conducted around the world each month which can lead to real threat data breaches and substantial financial losses. Insider threats can cause … Read More
The Importance of Cloud Risk Management
With considerable benefits like easier access to innovative technologies, simpler scalability, and reduced IT expenditures, increasing numbers of companies are migrating their data and infrastructure to a cloud environment. In fact, cloud adoption has been so prolific over the last decade that 94% of companies now use cloud services of some kind – with an astonishing 61% of organisations migrating … Read More