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As the UK turns its attention to recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic and enters a new way of working, new research from SCC suggests businesses are prepared to tackle the enhanced challenge of IT security head-on, despite the coronavirus crisis offering up new opportunities for would-be cyber criminals. According to SCC’s latest IT Insights Survey,...

Lack of staff training and awareness around IT security is a much bigger risk to organisations since the COVID-19 pandemic, according to SCC’s most recent IT Insights Report, a series commissioned by SCC to gain valuable insight into the UK IT market, in which we surveyed 550 IT decision-makers from 11 different sectors about the...

The COVID-19 pandemic has triggered a rethinking of investment priorities for organisations around the globe, forcing IT decision-makers to make critical choices about whether to reallocate funds from long standing IT security projects, evidenced in SCC’s latest IT Insights Report for IT Security. The report, based on the opinions of 550 IT decision-makers from 11...

As your business operations start to grow, so do your IT systems. This in itself can present challenges and put immense pressure on your IT infrastructure when trying to meet business-critical objectives. If you are faced with the following pressure points, increasing IT infrastructure costs, need for rapid application development – true DevOps, need for...

In this unprecedented time of change where companies have rolled out mandatory work-from-home policies, your users must do everything they can do from their new working environment, in order for your organisation to remain stable, productive, and competitive. Which means, your employees will expect to have access to critical business systems and data in order...

In this unprecedented time of change where companies have rolled out mandatory work-from-home policies, your users must do everything they can do from their new working environment, in order for your organisation to remain stable, productive, and competitive. Which means, your employees will expect to have access to critical business systems and data in order...

We’re proud of the SCC team that has continued to support a northeast NHS Foundation Trust throughout the coronavirus crisis – enabling the continuation of operations for cancer patients. The Trust had an urgent requirement to immediately mobilise 600 priority NHS staff to work at home, with a total user base of 12,000 users. In...

A slow response to cyber attacks is leaving UK organisations with critical vulnerabilities, resulting in catastrophic breaches, reputational damage and fines by the Information Commissioner’s Office for non compliance. Recent statistics published have unearthed a catalogue of errors and indecisions by IT teams that often result in breaches going unnoticed for 14 days, while attack...

SCC is delighted to announce that we are a major sponsor and speaker at the CBI Cyber Security Conference on 12th September at Canary Wharf in London. The Conference brings together business leaders and UK industry experts on cyber security, with the agenda centred around 3 clear themes: Making the most of your investment in...

Every 14 seconds, somewhere in the world an organisation falls prey to a ransomware attack. That’s more than 250 attacks every hour, more than 6,000 per day, and precisely 43,200 each week. Considering that a single attack can target multiple organisations and users at once, the scale of the problem speaks for itself. That’s according...

Having skilled, knowledgeable, well-trained digital security experts – and individuals who can act as ‘cybersecurity champions’ around the organisation – is essential if you want to make sure that your protection and policies keep you safe. To ensure your systems and data stay well protected, you need to have good cybersecurity solutions in place, and...

Your own staff may be a bigger threat to the integrity of your systems than any piece of malware or form of attack. And while personnel may behave in unpredictable ways, there are simple measures you can take to mitigate the dangers. The increasing frequency and sophistication of targeted attacks on an organisation, such as...