by emma@themissus.co | Nov 9, 2020 | Advice, Cyber News, IT Security
The events of 2020 have turned most predictions for 2021 on their head. Top trends such as artificial intelligence (AI) and the internet of things (IoT) will still define the ways in which tech reshapes our lives in the next year. However, the most significant use...
by emma@themissus.co | Nov 2, 2020 | Advice, Cyber News, IT Security
The number of publicly reported data breaches fell in the third quarter of 2020, but billions of more records were exposed globally to bring the total this year to 36 billion, according to Risk Based Security. The security vendor’s 2020 Q3 Data Breach QuickView...
by emma@themissus.co | Nov 2, 2020 | Advice, Cyber News, IT Security
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has fined hotel chain Marriott International £18.4m over a data breach that exposed the information of millions of guests worldwide. The UK’s independent body set up to uphold information rights imposed the...
by emma@themissus.co | Nov 2, 2020 | Advice, Cyber News, IT Security
Employee awareness is seen as the biggest area of weakness for firms’ cybersecurity strategies over the past few months of mass remote working during COVID-19, according to a new study. Secure storage firm Apricorn received over 23,500 responses from a poll of its...
by emma@themissus.co | Oct 18, 2020 | Advice, Cyber News, IT Security
Over the last couple of weeks, I’ve been chatting with people at four multi-national companies I work with who’ve seen productivity and revenue increase during the COVID-19 pandemic. They have been surprisingly consistent about why they’ve benefited from...
by emma@themissus.co | Oct 18, 2020 | Advice, Cyber News, IT Security
There’s a significant movement in cybersecurity right now that is seeing organizations approach the problem of cyber defence through the eyes of an attacker. This is very different to the check-box approach often associated with standard security or compliance...