As cyberattacks grow in sophistication, ethical hacking, or penetration testing, is the key to ensuring a secure cyber future. Regardless of the size of an organisation, all IT systems are vulnerable to cyberattacks. These can be from Internet-based viruses such as WannaCry, or internal breaches by employees. And if businesses want to avoid becoming a…
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The ‘on demand’ mindset of the modern consumer is forcing businesses of every type to digitally transform all aspects of their delivery strategy. According to Forbes in today’s age of the customer, brands have embraced customer experience as a key competitive differentiator, with a Deloitte survey revealing that 90% of businesses flagged improving the customer experience
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For many millennials and emerging Generation Z customers, the on-demand economy is so overarching that many have no idea what the world was like without instant consumer gratification. The busy high street; queueing in shops; Blockbuster videos; Radio Rentals. All are redundant in the on-demand economy. From instant video streaming on Netflix to online home
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For many decades, the UK has been falling behind both its European counterparts and its US cousins, with British workers producing less, per hour of work, than their equivalents in the US, Germany and France. At present, the UK has the world’s fifth largest economy, but languishes in 15th in terms of the productivity table.
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We will soon be living in a post smartphone era, but what will that look like? In the dark recesses of all IT departments in all businesses there will be some It products of yesteryear gathering dust. Fax Machines, Palm Pilots and laptops that were the size of suitcases all reside there now that sun
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The UK is now the most targeted nation for cyber-attacks following a 134% rise in hijacking attempts against British machines and soaring ransomware attacks. That’s according to Malwarebytes’ annual State of Malware report, that reveals UK-bound ransomware has increased by 165%. On a global basis, ransomware targeting businesses also saw a 90% hike over the
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Over the last few years, artificial intelligence (AI) has grown in importance. In Silicon Valley, the world’s biggest tech companies – Google, Facebook, Amazon, Tesla – are engaged in an artificial intelligence arms race. In the last year, we’ve seen AI commercialised for home-use in the form of Amazon’s Echo and the Google Home, with
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For most companies and organisations, Ransomware is an omnipotent threat to their cyber security. From private businesses and banks to universities and hospitals, ransomware attacks are a daily occurrence somewhere in the world as organisations pay out millions of pounds to unlock encrypted files. These ransomware attacks have such a high success rate because the
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Today, legacy business models are facing an uncertain period, driven by technologies that are disrupting traditional industries. In this new era, competitiveness depends on how well enterprises can react and respond to market requirements and ever-changing conditions. To maintain a competitive edge and advantage, it’s essential for businesses to embrace digital transformation, revamp their existing
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Online attacks and security breaches are not a new topic. In April last year the government’s Cyber Security Breaches Survey 2017 reported that almost half of UK firms had been hit by a cyber-attack or breach in the previous 12 months, whilst other reports have suggested that the UK is the target for one in
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Growing Demands As data use continues to grow how can a business ensure that its network can cope with increasing users demands without having to completely reengineer their infrastructure? Data is expanding at a frantic pace. According to IDC, data creation has doubled in size every two years, and by 2025 the digital universe (the
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Edge computing is a way to streamline the flow of traffic from IoT devices and provide real-time local data analysis Edge computing allows data produced by internet of things (IoT) devices to be processed closer to where it is created instead of sending it across long routes to data centers or clouds. Doing this computing
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