Zero Trust

Today’s workforce is dynamic with employees working from the office, home, and other remote locations across the world. For organisations, Zoom has increasingly become the de facto solution for video conferencing, connecting them to employees and customers. But the shift to remote and hybrid work has left IT and security teams with a new challenge…

Surging cybercrime is a major concern for every organisation today. As employee expectations for more flexible working continue to grow, IT and Security leaders face immense pressures to protect their hybrid workforce as they move beyond the traditional network perimeter. Yet, with cyberattacks having risen by 50% in the last year alone, 61% of…

In this blog we explore some of the special regulatory considerations organisations should understand when adopting a Zero Trust strategy in Europe. As enterprise technology ecosystems evolve to include a growing number of cloud resources, mobile and employee-owned devices, and digital business processes, the traditional approaches to securing…

From financial impacts to disruptions in an organisation's operations, cyber breaches have long had wide-ranging implications for enterprise companies. Due to the increased frequency of these breaches, the United States issued its first-ever executive order in 2021, calling for improvements to cyber security among organisations. In this new world…

The post-Covid-19 business world doesn’t work without cloud computing, and cloud computing doesn’t work without IAM.  As the world reacted to the global pandemic back in 2020, organisations turned to technology to enable their workforce and respond rapidly to changing customer demands. Digital transformation roadmaps, originally plotted over…

In this post we briefly explore the emerging threat of Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) and suggest how you can protect your organisation. As reports of ransomware attacks on vulnerable IT networks continue to rise, it seems as though cybercriminals are working harder than ever before. In 2020 alone, companies across the UK reported 5.9 million new…

This post will explore the key IT and security challenges that arise when modernising public sector infrastructure and what Okta can do to help solve them.  The COVID-19 pandemic has forced many UK public sector organisations to accelerate their digital transformation plans. In the wake of restrictions and social distancing measures, public…

Ransomware isn't new. The security frameworks to defend against the chains of attack leading to compromise aren’t new either.  To understand how best to defend against ransomware, we must understand ransomware itself: the economics, the motivation, the tactics, techniques and procedures (TTPs) as well as the changing landscape of the past 18…

Among the longstanding challenges that information security leaders have grappled with for years, one stands out: the difficulty of balancing user experience and security. The traditional tug-of-war between ease of access to business-critical applications and resources and robust protection from hackers has never been easy.  Until now.  The…

IT transformation over the past 15 months has reminded me of Mel Brook’s 1987 sci-fi parody movie ‘Spaceballs’. Stay with me here… In Spaceballs, our heroes escape the evil ‘Dark Helmet’ (gloriously portrayed by Rick Moranis) by fleeing his clutches at lightspeed.  Our bumbling villain has but one choice...he must chase after them at ‘ludicrous…