It seems that rarely a day goes by that an organisation isn’t pulled up for a data leak, and often the culprit is misconfigured cloud environments. This is an issue that seems to transcend business size, sophistication and industry. In the past few months alone we have seen recruitment companies, major hotel chains and even Facebook fall

Passwords are a problem. They’re hard to remember, they’re easily stolen, they’re published on the dark web and there are too many of them. According to a study by password management company LastPass, the average number of passwords an employee must remember is 191. Nobody can remember that many passwords. While it’s no

By Liviu Arsene Consumers are no longer surprised by data breaches. And, the truth is that large scale data breaches are here to stay. In fact, according to recent research from Bitdefender, six in every ten businesses have suffered a data breach in the last three years. And, by the end

In 2020, tried-and-tested cyber crimes – such as extortion, obfuscation and phishing – will remain, but new risks will inevitably emerge. Full 5G implementations will introduce new security threats and the increased migration to the cloud will see more organisations facing risks from their cloud and supply chain. In addition, the sheer number of connected assets

Cybersecurity professionals are in high demand, but in low supply, the 2019 (ISC)2 Cybersecurity Workforce Study finds. In fact, the supply is so low that it needs to grow by an estimated 145 percent to fill the estimated 4.07 million gap. The United States alone needs growth of 62% to meet the needs