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Education sector reports highest rate of ransomware attacks

Posted 2 years ago in by Phil Alsop

Sophos has released a new sectoral survey report, “The State of Ransomware in Education 2023,” which found that education reported the highest rate of ransomware attacks in 2022. Over the past year, 79% of higher educational organizations surveyed reported being hit by ransomware, while 80% of lower educational organizations surveyed were targeted—an increase from 64% and 56% in 2021, respectively.

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Transforming incident response, readiness and recovery?

Posted 2 years ago in by Phil Alsop

HEAL completes Darktrace’s Cyber AI Loop, delivering resilience throughout the cyber lifecycle from prevention, to detection, to response, and now to recovery.

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SentinelOne launches Cloud Data Security product line

Posted 2 years ago in by Phil Alsop

Company unveils high-speed malware detection products for leading cloud and network storage providers Amazon S3 and NetApp, enabling customers to revolutionise protection as threats evolve.

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Kyndryl targets $47 billion Managed Security Services market

Posted 2 years ago in by Phil Alsop

Flexible and modular services speed cyber attack detection, response and recovery.

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Data breach cost averages £3.4 million

Posted 2 years ago in by Phil Alsop

UK organisations that extensively use security AI and automation reduced data breach costs by £1.6m on average.

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Ransomware attacks up 221% year-on-year

Posted 2 years ago in by Phil Alsop

Ransomware attacks continue to hit record levels with 434 attacks in June 2023, a 221% increase on the same period last year (135 attacks – June 2022), according to the latest analysis from NCC Group’s Global Threat Intelligence team.

Case Study: @nifty Delivering IT Security to Their Customers with Kaspersky

NIFTY Corporation is one of the leading Telecoms and Internet Service Providers in Japan, supplying high-speed broadband connectivity to more than 1.39 million broadband users. Providing robust security for the many subscribers to its online services is very important because repeated security breaches or loss of service may result in customers suffering damage or losses - and ultimately leaving NIFTY and moving to competitors' services.

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Education sector reports highest rate of ransomware attacks

Transforming incident response, readiness and recovery?

SentinelOne launches Cloud Data Security product line

Kyndryl targets $47 billion Managed Security Services market

Data breach cost averages £3.4 million

Ransomware attacks up 221% year-on-year

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Case Study: @nifty Delivering IT Security to Their Customers with Kaspersky

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