Author: Chris Huggett

Ransomware actors have been a continuous threat to organisations for years, and the scale of the attacks keeps advancing. In the last twelve months alone, thirty-seven percent of UK companies have reported a data breach incident to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), with seventeen percent recording more than one incident. Improving cyber security protection has forced attackers to evolve their strategies, making it harder for businesses to keep control of their assets. Even the motivations of the cyber criminals are changing, moving on from holding organisations to ransom for financial gain to causing as much disruption as possible, including large…

As global economies continue to battle the challenges brought on by COVID-19, millions of people around the world continue to work from home to help slow the spread of the disease. With local lockdowns happening across England, as part of a new three-tier restrictions strategy which has come into force, remote working is set to continue for some time. The global nature of the pandemic is unlike anything we’ve seen in our lifetime. Many ‘regular’ disasters are regional – storms and earthquakes for example – so the prevailing thinking was it would be extremely unlikely that enough capacity would be required for a whole…

With the tech sector booming and unemployment rates low, cybersecurity talent can be hard to recruit and retain. Every company faces an ever-evolving onslaught from hackers in one form or another, which is no longer about when a breach happens but how often they happen. Resilient businesses have a laser focus on cyber security, all too aware of the negative impact a breach can, and does have. Even with an effective cyber security incident response plan in place finding the required skills and knowledge to deliver on that plan is far from easy. A report by non-profit association (ISC)² revealed…