Customer Experience Is Everything! In a world where your customers will gladly go to a competitor if your site loads just 250 milliseconds slower than theirs, you must get smart about your Content Delivery Network (CDN).
Google falls over... In case you missed the news Google just suffered a worldwide outage of a number of services. These included many common workplace apps such as Gmail, Google Drive and Google Meet. The last 3 organisations I have worked with have all been ‘Google houses’, meaning they rely[...]
Barracuda released key findings about the ways cybercriminals are attacking and exploiting email accounts. The report reveals a specialized economy emerging around email account takeover and takes an in-depth look at the threats organizations face and the types of defense strategies you need to[...]
According to new research, a rising rate of coronavirus infections has been met with a declining rate of reported cybersecurity breaches. The finding, from the Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC), shows that publicly reported US data breaches dropped 33% in the first half of 2020 compared with[...]
There’s a predictive relationship between responsible privacy practices and security outcomes, according to Osano.Companies with inadequate data privacy practices are 80 percent more likely to suffer a data breach than those with the highest-ranked privacy practices and will face fines seven[...]
Barracuda announced a new secure SD-WAN service built natively on Microsoft Azure. The new Barracuda CloudGen WAN service is the first SD-WAN solution that runs inside Azure Virtual WAN Hubs. Hubs can be interconnected through the Microsoft Global Network.This network architecture can replace[...]
38 percent of businesses have scaled infrastructure to meet new levels of demand during the lockdown period (March-June), highlighting how the pandemic has accelerated businesses’ digital transformation plans, according to Aptum.The findings also demonstrate that organizations that adopted cloud[...]
Cloudflare revealed that on June 21 it detected and mitigated a packet-based volumetric DDoS attack that peaked at 754 million packets-per-second. According to researchers, that peak was part of a four-day attack from June 18-21 that saw traffic from more than 316,000 different IP addresses[...]
Credential stuffing is a type of cyberattack where stolen account credentials typically consisting of lists of usernames and/or email addresses and the corresponding passwords (often from a data breach) are used to gain unauthorized access to user accounts through large-scale automated login[...]
