

Why Human Risk is The Biggest Security Threat Businesses Face
Despite 90% of IT and cybersecurity specialists agreeing that cyber security awareness is of the highest importance, 40% of these organisations have stated that employee awareness is low. Cyber security solutions are getting stronger and implementations of new technology like the cloud make your data safer than ever, but it seems we continue to overlook the biggest threat to our businesses out there, ourselves and our employees.
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6 Facts About Cyber-Security You Should Consider
Every day we produce over 2.5 quintillion bytes of data, most of which needs to be protected. Whilst more data being transported and created is a positive sign of technological growth within businesses, it has subsequently brought an increase in the rate of cyber-attacks. Cyber-crime is rising, and the latest 2022 cyber-security facts only reinforce this theory. We speak a lot about the importance of cyber-security in these blogs because we understand how crucial protecting your business's data is and know how devastating the consequences can be for companies that don't put the right safeguards in place.
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Why is Conducting an IT Audit Important
Whether it is money, time, or staff every company regardless of its industry, are increasing their investments in technology. The impact a successful implementation can have on businesses' operations is becoming more apparent every day. Understanding the importance of IT audits can make the difference between a successful company and one that fails due to poor implementation, or a cybersecurity-related breach (as highlighted in last week’s blog).
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Why Cyber-Security and Company Reputation Go Hand in Hand
“It takes 20 years to build a reputation and a few minutes of cyber-incident to ruin it” – Stephane Nappo ‘Global chief Information Security Officer’. Building a good reputation takes a lot of time and effort for both large and small businesses. With more and more companies offering the same services you need to be unique. Your brand is one of the things that can help you stand out from the sea of mediocrity. Building a positive brand is important and protecting it even more so, but with more cyber-attacks than ever, your business's reputation could be at risk.
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Patisserie Valerie upgrade to Cloud CCTV
Renowned cafe chain Patisserie Valerie has become the latest business to transform its security with an upgrade to Cloud CCTV.
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5 Reason Having A Microsoft 365 Backup is Crucial
Approximately 187,000 UK businesses are taking advantage of Microsoft 365 to increase their performance, but do these companies truly have control of their 365 Data? It’s a common misconception that Microsoft takes full responsibility for this, in reality, Microsoft’s primary focus is on managing the office 365 infrastructure and as a standard only protects you against site or hardware failure. Backups are extremely important due to the number of risks your data will inevitably face. Keeping the idea that Microsoft backs up data on your behalf could have damaging repercussions if this responsibility is left unattended.
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Why it's Time to Upgrade Your Legacy CCTV
In the UK a burglary takes place every 106 seconds, despite this, metropolitan data has shown that a worryingly high 95% of burglaries go unsolved, meaning the majority of these criminals will get away with their actions.
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6 Cyber Security Threats to Expect in 2022
The pandemic brought a seemingly endless wave of challenges to almost all businesses. Most of these challenges were unique to each industry, but there was one unavoidable hurdle that all businesses no matter the industry had to overcome, Cyber Security. As lockdowns became stricter and working remotely became the standard businesses were forced to rapidly digitalise almost overnight, unfortunately doing this so suddenly left many businesses open to a number of cyber threats that still persist today.
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Why Bitwarden Could be a Security Game Changer
According to a study by IBM ‘95% of cyber security breaches are caused by human error’, this can be anything from clicking a phishing email to having a weak password. If any of these attacks are successful, you're likely to experience a halt to business operations, reputational damage, and even financial loss; and with the average cost of a data breach being the highest its been in 17 years at £3.36 million, according to a study by ITPro, password hygiene should be a top priority in 2023. With this in mind, it’s clearly more important than ever to have a secure and streamlined way to manage your account data, and we believe we've found the tool to help you do so.
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The Worst Passwords of 2021... How Can You Stay Secure?
Another year, another annual password review. Those that follow our blog know, this is something we enjoy (and cringe) at doing each year. Every year we speak in detail about how unreliable passwords truly are, throughout we highlight the worst passwords, whilst reinforcing the fact that passwords remain an increasingly significant point of weakness for personal and business security. With a significant increase in remote workers and the topic of cyber security becoming more prevalent, has 2021 been the year everyone turned their poor password habit’s around? Unfortunately not, Nord VPN has put together the 200 most used passwords and it seems password hygiene is only getting worse.
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Why Human Risk is The Biggest Security Threat Businesses Face
Despite 90% of IT and cybersecurity specialists agreeing that cyber security awareness is of the..
Read more
6 Facts About Cyber-Security You Should Consider
Every day we produce over 2.5 quintillion bytes of data, most of which needs to be protected...
Read more
Why is Conducting an IT Audit Important
Whether it is money, time, or staff every company regardless of its industry, are increasing their..
Read more
Why Cyber-Security and Company Reputation Go Hand in Hand
“It takes 20 years to build a reputation and a few minutes of cyber-incident to ruin it” – Stephane..
Read more
Patisserie Valerie upgrade to Cloud CCTV
Renowned cafe chain Patisserie Valerie has become the latest business to transform its security..
Read more
5 Reason Having A Microsoft 365 Backup is Crucial
Approximately 187,000 UK businesses are taking advantage of Microsoft 365 to increase their..
Read more
Why it's Time to Upgrade Your Legacy CCTV
In the UK a burglary takes place every 106 seconds, despite this, metropolitan data has shown that..
Read more
6 Cyber Security Threats to Expect in 2022
The pandemic brought a seemingly endless wave of challenges to almost all businesses. Most of these..
Read more
Why Bitwarden Could be a Security Game Changer
According to a study by IBM ‘95% of cyber security breaches are caused by human error’, this can be..
Read more
The Worst Passwords of 2021... How Can You Stay Secure?
Another year, another annual password review. Those that follow our blog know, this is something we..
Read more