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 11, 2020 | Advice, Cyber News, IT Security
More than one in five (21%) UK workers feel more vulnerable to cybercrime since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new study by PwC. Stress or fatigue was the most common factor (35%) cited by those workers, followed by lack of skills and training to...
by emma@themissus.co | Oct 11, 2020 | Advice, Cyber News, IT Security
Ransomware was the most observed threat in 2020, according to a global corporate investigations and risk consulting firm based in New York City. Kroll’s proprietary data on cyber incident response cases shows that ransomware attacks accounted for over one-third...
by emma@themissus.co | Oct 11, 2020 | Advice, Cyber News, IT Security
Extended remote working could be driving a wedge between workers and IT teams, who continue to lack visibility over large swathes of the remote workforce, new research suggests. With recent findings from Gartner revealing that nearly half (47%) of all organizations...
by emma@themissus.co | Oct 4, 2020 | Advice, Cyber News, IT Security
Microsoft’s Teams had a very busy September adding a host of new features. Now, the firm is looking to improve the performance of its Teams service as it continues in the battle to beat Zoom in the video conferencing space. In an update detailing the features added in...
by emma@themissus.co | Oct 4, 2020 | Advice, Cyber News, IT Security
More than half of businesses have cited scaling endpoint security as their main pain point in 2020. According to new research of 1005 key business stakeholders including C-Suite, IT and cybersecurity leaders by Asavie, 53% cited endpoint as their number one issue,...