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Embracing the Future: Artificial Intelligence Challenges As we witness a remarkable surge in artificial intelligence, the challenges it poses to security measures continue to grow. The question that lingers is whether the drive to embrace AI is the beacon of the future. Explore the intricacies and implications of AI in cybersecurity and stay ahead of...

In today's fast-paced IT world, outsourcing cybersecurity services has become a common practice critical to operational success. MSSPs are becoming increasingly necessary for organisations looking to secure their networks without exceeding their budgets and resources.

The need for banking and financial services organisations to embrace the best of technology and innovation has never been more pressing. The UK banking sector was already in a time of transformational change, with increasing regulation, new digitally focused challengers, and the reshaping of London’s position on the world stage due to Brexit. But with...

The immediate impact of COVID-19 on business and, in particular, IT teams was clear for all to see. At the drop of a hat organisations had to enable homeworking for every eligible employee – causing major disruption to business-as-usual, creating a sudden shift in IT security focus, causing chaos to existing projects and IT budgets,...

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...

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...

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,...

The new Amazon Echo Dot, the small piece of gadgetry that brings the Amazon virtual assistant ‘Alexa’ into the home was both the top-selling Amazon device, as well as the top-selling product available from any manufacturer on Amazon over the recent holiday period. With millions sold it appears that virtual assistants are hitting the mainstream,...