Kevin Lancaster

“With the COVID-19 pandemic continuing to rage across the world, governments of many countries have encouraged or demanded that employees work from home where possible. That mass migration to remote working is making it imperative that businesses have robust processes and technologies in place to guard systems and data against cyberattacks. Here are our top tips as to how they can best keep their businesses secure when managing a widely-dispersed workforce.  Make sure you have robust passwords in place  World Password Day on May 7th is a timely reminder of the importance of good password management. With complete workforces working…

Today, cybercriminals have the capacity and resources to carry out mass-targeted attacks that can inflict a great deal of destruction on an organisation. With these sophisticated skills and a growing number of solutions available to them, it is possible for criminals to create ransomware as a service, to ‘spin up’ email servers and blast out millions of emails and then ‘drop down’ and do it again. Much of this remains indiscriminate, of course. We are seeing organised groups getting involved in these activities, ‘spray phishing’ for credentials and that is in itself leading to an increase in ransomware. A lot…