Chris Hodson

Now that many organizations have met the technical challenges of working remotely, the biggest challenges are around cybersecurity and people. Unless these issues are managed better, and soon, many organizations could suffer significant cybersecurity risks. Why? Because today’s remote employees are under pressure to keep their productivity high, and they’re working longer and longer hours. Yet at home, life continues to go on around them. Children need help with remote learning. Spouses and roommates need space for their own work. Pets clamor for attention and care. This is precisely when cybersecurity standards can start to slip. Further, with so many…

Now that many organizations have met the technical challenges of working remotely, the biggest challenges are around cybersecurity and people. Unless these issues are managed better, and soon, many organizations could suffer significant cybersecurity risks. Why? Because today’s remote employees are under pressure to keep their productivity high, and they’re working longer and longer hours. Yet at home, life continues to go on around them. Children need help with remote learning. Spouses and roommates need space for their own work. Pets clamor for attention and care. This is precisely when cybersecurity standards can start to slip. Further, with so many…

By the time UK CISOs encounter this month’s Patch Tuesday many organisations will have been working from home for almost 6 months. The shift of the UK workforce to indefinite remote working has created the combined challenges of VPN bottlenecks, a surge in unprotected endpoints, and remote working stresses that threaten to expose corporate assets to elevated cyber risk.  In this unique climate, endpoint visibility and control are crucial for security leaders fighting to manage risk whilst supporting business continuity. Patching problems Even before lockdown, Patch Tuesday was becoming increasingly fraught for many organisations. Digital transformation is expanding the corporate…

In 2019 we saw a steady increase in the number and modes of cyberattacks. In fact, more than half of all British companies reported cyberattacks in the last year alone. To prepare for  2020, Tanium looked into the biggest concerns for IT decision makers within organisations in the UK. This revealed that not having enough visibility over the increasing number of endpoints, such as laptops, servers, virtual machines, containers, or cloud infrastructure, leaving them unaware and unable to protect all systems, was the biggest concern for the coming year (25%). The next biggest area of concern for respondents is the…