Cybersecurity as a Selling Point: Retailers Take Note
UK-based retailers were no strangers to data breaches in 2018. In June, Dixons Carphone announced a breach of 5.9 million customer bank card details and 1.2 million personal data records, and the following month, Fortnum & Mason likewise warned customers that their data had been exposed. In fact, since GDPR ... Read More
Millennials and Cybersecurity: Understanding the Value of Personal Data
From British Airways to Uber, recent data breaches have shown how valuable our data is to cybercriminals – and the lengths to which they will go to access it. The size and impact of these breaches has meant that topics once reserved for tech experts and IT personnel have transitioned ... Read More
Deal, No Deal: The State of U.K. Cybersecurity Post-Brexit
A topic inescapably in the minds of us Brits is what type of relationship will the U.K. maintain with the EU post our departure, which in one transitional form or another is slated to commence 29 March 2019. The next few months are considered to be a pivotal period for ... Read More
Cloud vs DDoS, the Seven Layers of Complexity
A question that I’ve encountered many times in the field of late is what are the impacts of DDoS attacks on cloud compute environments? The primary benefit of cloud is that it elastically scales to meet variable demand, scale up instantly, scale down when demand subsides – in seconds… So ... Read More