Dubbed ‘the year of the breach’, 2014 saw information security breaches increase among small and large businesses at an exponential rate. According to figures published by PwC in its Information...
Maintaining online data security is one of the biggest challenges facing businesses – especially as flexible and mobile working now sees employees accessing information from a range of locations....
The interconnected network of electronically embedded objects or devices, referred to as the Internet of Things (IoT), is on the rise within both businesses and homes in the UK. It was the subject of...
Over two months after the attack by hackers on Sony Pictures, the cyber security landscape is still very much in the public eye. With notable hacks reported every week, firms big and small as well as...
Hacking has started 2015 much as anyone in the cyber security industry would have expected. From US Military Command accounts to phone calls, it seems that nothing is untouchable. In much the same wa...
Cloud computing has, in the past few years, become a viable alternative to in-house server-based solutions. However, for many small to medium-sized businesses, concerns and doubts remain about migrat...
The consequences of not taking cyber security seriously are, for most business owners, too dire to contemplate. Suffering a serious breach, such as theft of users’ financial details from an ecommer...
If you have attended a number of job interviews in your time, you will doubtless be familiar with a kind of recurring nightmare – ‘kind of”, because the experience unfolds in cruel reality and y...
Security experts are, by the nature of their jobs, cautious creatures, which is why you’re unlikely to hear from one of these folk that security can ever be 100 per cent guaranteed. However, this d...
The unfortunate breaches of information security defences during 2013 confirm, amongst other things, that IT security professionals will be in demand for a long time to come. According to a governmen...
Although Wordpress has become increasingly popular over the years, it isn't without its flaws. Due to it being an open source platform, it has been prone to holes in security, which has been a topic o...
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