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Employee security awareness tactics that work It may seem like an uphill battle, but there are ways businesses can arm their employees against these and other devious methods attackers use to scam businesses out of sensitive information or their cash. Here's what to...

Phishing and ransomware top employee security concerns As a productivity tool, the email inbox has proven to be both a blessing and a curse. Among the types of attacks that workers often fall for, "phishing, spear-phishing and/or whaling" is number one, according to...

The maritime industry forms an integral part of our critical national infrastructure as our daily life depends on it to function properly. It is one of the core channels for global trade, with a staggering 80 per cent of goods by volume transported between countries...

Microsoft Teams can now compete directly with Slack with a free tier that startups not in Microsoft's ecosystem can use for any user. This means you don't need an Office 365 login to use Teams. With the free access tier, Microsoft Teams is now positioned as an actual...

Businesses are too busy fighting current cyber-threats to focus on what might be around the corner, new research has claimed. Findings from Accenture discovered that 51 per cent of businesses and their CSOs are under increasing pressure. Half of them are saying they...

Many companies are embracing the GDPR as an opportunity to improve privacy, security, and data management, by cutting down on the amount of personal data they keep, ditching data that is no longer needed, and reducing the number of people who have access to it....

The UK government has published its first attempt at setting a minimum cyber security standard for public sector organisations: the inventively-named Minimum Cyber Security Standard (MCSS), which will be incorporated into the Government Functional Standard for...

The unified communications market is increasingly shrinking, as acquisitions hoover up companies large and small. The latest round has seen audio solutions provider Plantronics buy out UCC giant Polycom. Plantronics said that the acquisition would ‘accelerate' its...

Google has posted a defense of Gmail's privacy protections after a Wall Street Journal (WSJ) report found the service was allowing third-party companies to read personal emails. The WSJ reported that employees at firms offering personalised services, such as shopping...

What makes it so easy to fall prey to phishing emails is that they look perfectly legitimate–official-looking emails from reputable companies getting in touch for seemingly reasonable purposes. It could be Apple, PayPal, or your bank. No matter how shrewd you are, it...