October is National Cyber Security Awareness Month, made to encourage industry members to learn about cyber risks. Smarter Technologies discusses. Although no models are truly impenetrable, we’re zeroing in on zero trust architecture as the number one thing your organisation…
Price is more important than security for smart devices say Brits
?BlackBerry Limited?has revealed research exposing the cybersecurity risks created by cost-conscious home workers who prioritise security behind price. Despite 77% of smart devices in the home being purchased in the past two years, less than a third (32%) of British home…
Atlas VPN reports: 41% of business cyberattacks are through Cloud servers
Recent changes in IT infrastructure, such as companies’ transition to Cloud solutions – all of which which have been triggered by the rise in remote work – have shifted the focus of cyberattacks. Atlas VPN discusses. According to the data…
Why are hackers interested in IoT devices?
Attacks on assets connected to the IoT more than doubled last year, topping 1.5 billion. Liam Tran, Applications & Development Engineer at Anders Electronics explains why hackers target IoT devices and what can be done to prevent their attacks. Clearly,…
Enea’s 2022 IoT trends
Nation states will ramp up mobile cyber-attacks; hyperscalers will mimic Google and introduce powerful proprietary encryption protocols; and new edge clouds could make the last mile vulnerable. These are amongst the major trends Enea has highlighted in a new report…
Risky business: SMEs’ use of customer data
For small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the UK, customer data and cybersecurity are often paramount to success. And with the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic affecting how businesses operate and interact with their customers, keeping data safe has never been so…
Survey shows executives are concerned about network security threats
Nearly eight in ten Americans (77%) believe their company has gaps in its current security tools, according to Lynx Software Technologies (Lynx). Lynx, an innovator in modern platform software technologies, commissioned a survey of 500 Americans in managerial and executive…
Department for Education boosts cyber training courses in security revamp
The Department for Education (DfE) overhauled its security investment in the most recent financial year (FY 20-21), by increasing security courses on offer to staff from four to 44. Additionally, course participants surged from just under 7,000 in FY 19-20,…
Nearly half of remote employees engage in risky password behaviour
LastPass by LogMeIn has released findings of its fourth Psychology of Passwords global report, which revealed that while 92% of people know that using the same password or a variation is a risk, 65% still re-use passwords across accounts, drastically…
Smart Factory: What it is and the solutions you need to build one
There are already many articles on the topic of smart factory. In this article, I will try to simplify it a little bit, starting off with a brief overview of the history of industrial revolutions, introduction of what smart factory…