Tag Archives: Cybersecurity

A Roadmap to Security and Privacy Compliance

Only by understanding the current regulatory environment and implementing robust data protection measures, can organisations enhance their security posture, ensure compliance, and build resilience against the latest cyber threats. This article provides a comprehensive roadmap of how to do it.

Six ways to maintain compliance and remain secure

With approximately 3.4 billion malicious emails circulating daily, it is crucial for organisations to implement strong safeguards to protect against phishing and business email compromise (BEC) attacks. It is a problem that is not going to go away. In fact, email phishing scams continue to rise, with news of Screwfix customers being targeted breaking at a few weeks ago. Today, every business large or small is a target. So, what can be done to prevent a business’ email being hacked. And what can be done to mitigate the impact should the worse happen.

Why a data strategy underpins a successful AI strategy

AI and machine learning offer exciting innovation capabilities for businesses, from next-level predictive analytics to human-like conversational interfaces for functions such as customer service. But despite these tools’ undeniable potential many enterprises today are unprepared to fully leverage AI’s capabilities because they lack a prioritised data strategy. Bringing siloed and far-flung unstructured data repositories into a single, accessible source is one of the enterprise inhibitors of being able to utilise AI effectively.

Ensuring AI comes out of the shadows

Whilst companies are right to encourage their teams to find innovative usages of GenAI to streamline workflows, many employees are using the technology in ways that are not being sanctioned by their employers. It is a phenomenon called shadow AI and is a growing concern.

Cheltenham MSP is first official local cyber advisor

ReformIT, a Managed IT Service and Security provider (MSP) based in the UK’s cyber-capital, Cheltenham, has become the first MSP in the local area to be accredited as both a Cyber Advisor and a Cyber Essentials Certification Body. The Cyber Advisor scheme was launched by the Government’s official National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) and the IASME Consortium, aimed at helping businesses to protect themselves from increasing cyber threats.

Importance of a Zero Trust Approach to GenAI

In an era where machine-generated media holds increasing influence over how we communicate, live, and learn, ensuring accountability will be paramount. Holistically integrating Zero Trust security spanning authentication, authorisation, data validation, process oversight and output controls will be vital to ensure such systems are safeguarded as much as possible against misuse. But what would Zero Trust Generative AI look like? Why is it required? How should it be implemented? And what are the main challenges the industry will have?

Managing Private Content Exposure Risk in 2024

Managing the privacy and compliance of sensitive content communications is getting more and more difficult for businesses. Cybercriminals continue to evolve their approaches, making it harder than ever to identify, stop, and mitigate the damages of malicious attacks. But, what are the key issues for IT admins to look out for in 2024?

Unlocking productivity and efficiency gains with data management

Enterprise data has been closely linked with hardware for numerous years, but an exciting transformation is underway as the era of the hardware businesses is gone. With advanced data services available through the cloud, organisations can forego investing in hardware and abandon infrastructure management in favour of data management.

Unlocking productivity and efficiency gains with data management

Enterprise data has been closely linked with hardware for numerous years, but an exciting transformation is underway as the era of the hardware businesses is gone. With advanced data services available through the cloud, organisations can forego investing in hardware and abandon infrastructure management in favour of data management.

The Future of Cloud: A Realistic Look at What’s Ahead

Cloud computing has transformed the way we work, communicate, and consume technology. From storing data to running applications, the cloud has become an essential part of our lives. But what does the future hold for this technology? In this article, we’ll take a realistic look at the future of the cloud and what we can expect to see in the coming years.