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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...

You may have a business contingency plan in place and be ready to deal with an unexpected event that prevents you from accessing your IT systems. But dealing with a major infiltration of your systems, a significant loss of data, or a ransomware attack would pose difference challenges. Would you be able to cope? The...

The majority of workers are ready to ditch the password in favour of more modern security solutions, such as biometrics. This is according to a new Okta document based on a poll of more than 4,000 workers across the UK, France and the Netherlands. In 2018, four in ten UK businesses experienced a security breach...

With around 4.5 million cybercrimes being inflicted on companies in England and Wales in 2018, the threat would seem to be growing by the day. What is the right approach to take if you want to minimise the risks? Instead of being reactive, do you need to be more holistic? For a senior IT or...

Everything in business is now more complex than ever. Customers are more demanding, competition is growing and new regulation — such as the GDPR — is complicating things further. This added complexity has made it increasingly difficult to manage businesses effectively, and managing an enterprise’s network is no exception. Enterprise networks have grown in complexity...

New research has suggested data loss is the biggest concern for IT decision-makers when it comes to security. The survey of 300 mid-market IT managers, CIOs, directors and Heads of IT, revealed data loss was the most difficult challenge for 42% of correspondents, when trying to keep their organisation secure. A quarter of those asked...

Data safety is paramount, and encryption may be a significant step in order to keep you safe. So what is it and what should you encrypt? Your business doesn’t deal with highly confidential data, so you don’t need to encrypt your data, right? Wrong. Although ‘data encryption’may sound like something that only happens in institutes...