Organisations are modernising their security strategies and ensuring they operate with a resilient Business Continuity plan to prepare for potential challenges. Here, Dan Morgan, Global Head of Cloud and Infrastructure at Dr. Martens, offers insight into the organisation’s business priorities; security, resiliency and global availability of cloud, and explains how it worked with 11:11 Systems […]

Sophos, a global leader in next-generation cybersecurity, has published a new sectoral survey report, The State of Ransomware in Retail 2022, which found that retail had the second highest rate of ransomware attacks last year of all sectors surveyed after the media, leisure and entertainment industry. Globally, 77% of retail organisations surveyed were hit – […]

Barracuda, a trusted partner and leading provider of cloud-first security solutions, has released its fourth-annual threat research report on ransomware. The new report looks at ransomware attack patterns that occurred between August 2021 and July 2022. For the 106 highly publicised attacks Barracuda researchers analysed, the dominant targets are still five key industries: education (15%), […]

Axis, a network technology company offering solutions in video surveillance, access control, intercom and audio systems has announced the launch of AXIS Live Privacy Shield. AXIS Live Privacy Shield, the market’s only edge analytics camera software that masks people in real time, in video streams at up to full frame rate, will now support a […]

Benjamin Corll, VP of Cybersecurity at Coats, discusses the organisation’s work with Zscaler which offered improved visibility and secured its Industry 5.0 transformation. He also explains why it’s important to empower your people, because they ‘are not our weakest link, but our best sensors’. Coats, the world’s leading industrial thread manufacturer, has adopted the Zscaler […]

The retail industry is heavily targeted by cybercriminals – and as the COVID-19 pandemic caused more people to shop online, the e-commerce space has now become a major focus for cybercriminals. Therefore, retailers must now improve their security defences and Rashid Ali, Enterprise Solutions Manager at WALLIX, discusses the ways they can do this to […]

A new study from Juniper Research has found cumulative merchant losses to online payment fraud globally between 2023 and 2027 will exceed US$343 billion. As a comparison, this equates to over 350% of Apple’s reported net income in the 2021 fiscal year, showing the massive extent of these losses. Online payment fraud includes losses across […]

BioCatch, a global leader in behavioural biometrics, and Goode Intelligence have released a report highlighting the challenges and potential improvements of strong customer authentication (SCA) implementation across the EU. According to the European Banking Authority (EBA), fraud rates have fallen for issuers because of high SCA compliance adoption, with the average value of fraudulent card […]

Node4 has supplied a fully integrated telephony system, contact centre and MPLS Private WAN to Ellisons, one of the UK’s leading suppliers to hair and beauty professionals. Lee Farmer, IT & Operations Director at Ellisons, outlines how the company’s core values align with its strategy for IT innovation and tells us how Node4 has been instrumental […]

KP Snacks has fallen victim to a ransomware attack which could lead to a shortage of supply until the end of March, the company has said. The attack appears to have been caused following a breach of KP’s internal network, with attackers gaining access to and encrypting sensitive files, including employee records and financial documents. […]