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With around 4.5 million cybercrimes being inflicted on companies in England and Wales in 2018, the threat would seem to be growing by the day. What is the right approach to take if you want to minimise the risks? Instead of being reactive, do you need to be more holistic? For a senior IT or...

Everything in business is now more complex than ever. Customers are more demanding, competition is growing and new regulation — such as the GDPR — is complicating things further. This added complexity has made it increasingly difficult to manage businesses effectively, and managing an enterprise’s network is no exception. Enterprise networks have grown in complexity...

New research has suggested data loss is the biggest concern for IT decision-makers when it comes to security. The survey of 300 mid-market IT managers, CIOs, directors and Heads of IT, revealed data loss was the most difficult challenge for 42% of correspondents, when trying to keep their organisation secure. A quarter of those asked...

Data safety is paramount, and encryption may be a significant step in order to keep you safe. So what is it and what should you encrypt? Your business doesn’t deal with highly confidential data, so you don’t need to encrypt your data, right? Wrong. Although ‘data encryption’may sound like something that only happens in institutes...

It was a big year for cyber security in 2018. The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came into force, demonstrating the serious nature of confidential data and keeping it safe. For those who fail to align their practices to the regulation, they face the consequences of a hefty fine, which could potentially destroy their business....

Just when you thought it was all over, WannaCry is still attempting to infect thousands of systems a month. Are you protected from this immortal cyber threat? The WannaCry ransomware attack will go down in history, thanks to the chaos it caused around the world, most notably with the NHS. There were 200,00 victims and...

Healthcare organisations made up 37% of cyber attacks in Q3 according to cyber security insurance firm Beazley Breach Response (BBR) Services. In recent months, the insurance company has seen the number of reported ransomware incidents climb. The number of notifications of ransomware attacks more than doubled in September, when compared with the previous month. In...

Political events over the past few years have caused a lot of people to wake up with a start – there’s nothing like a bit of national outcry to shake you out of your slumber. That moment of trying to come to terms with what happened while you were sleeping is all too familiar to...

It is very tempting when creating a cyber security strategy to fall down a rabbit hole of stolen customer data, fears of reputational damage and planning your PR response should things all go horribly wrong. In doing so, our efforts become focused on pulling up the drawbridge to protect our network from the risk of...

Who’d be a CISO nowadays? Expected to set and oversee information security strategy, and potentially take the fall should a breach occur. You need eyes in the back of your network, trust in your team and the ability to influence the board with sound business arguments, not horror stories. The world’s first CISO is widely...

SCC’s Head of Innovation, Dan Cartter, will speak at the Cyber Security: Business Insight Conference on Wednesday 17th October. The half-day conference, taking place at Bournville College, Longbridge, will host presentations and discussions that examine cyber breaches and their risk to brand reputation and customer trust. The morning will feature the presentation ‘Be on the...

It’s 4:30pm and you’re in the middle of a meeting when you’re interrupted by one of your technical architects. They want to let you know that they think there’s been a security breach so could you come down and help them check it out please? Before you can make your excuses however, they’re back in the room...