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Study: pandemic year has strengthened IT teams worldwide
June 26, 2021
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| Sophos, Stories
Study: pandemic year has strengthened IT teams worldwide

Good news for cybersecurity: IT teams worldwide are emerging from the pandemic year stronger. Sophos study highlights the impact of 2020's challenges on IT teams. In its study "The IT Security Team: 2021 and Beyond", Sophos has examined the effects of the increased security challenges caused by the pandemic on IT teams in different regions of the world. The survey surveyed 5.400 IT decision makers at midsize companies in 30 countries in Europe, North and South America, Asia Pacific and Central Asia, the Middle East and Africa. 61 percent of global and 64 percent of German IT teams confirm more cyber attacks on their organization...

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Risk: Empty offices due to the pandemic
18 May 2021
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Risk: Empty offices due to the pandemic

What are the risks lurking in computers, networks, offices and buildings abandoned by a pandemic? IT security officers had their hands full in the pandemic to securely connect the home office. But there are also risks in abandoned offices or workstation computers that have not been started up for a long time. Many employees fled to the home office at the beginning of the pandemic - and have stayed there to this day. They left IT systems and networks in the office next to their desk. The unused buildings cost money and are a real risk. Was someone able to break a lock during the pandemic, enter ...

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Ivanti study: Home office increases IT security budget
21 April 2021
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Ivanti study: Home office increases IT security budget

Where there is light, there is also shadow: Continuously growing investments in IT security can turn into cost traps. A current study by Ivanti shows that budgets for IT security will also increase significantly in some cases in the coming months. The reason is that companies continue to work to adapt to the challenge of an Everywhere Workplace. The danger here: The flood of tasks to safeguard a decentralized workforce can tend to lead to IT security costs getting out of hand. 400 Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) across the EMEA region were interviewed for the study. The…

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Security risk: orphaned access systems
7 April 2021
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Security risk: orphaned access systems

Access control systems as a potential security risk: offices around the world are orphaned in the pandemic, as they are usually only between the years. Last autumn, the Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) warned that cyber criminals could exploit the situation. Due to the pandemic, many offices are orphaned as they usually have only been between the years. The BSI has already issued a warning. But danger does not only come from the network. Empty company rooms can also pose a risk if they are equipped with inadequately secured or outdated access systems. RFID is easy to fish One scenario could, for example ...

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Study: Pandemic Changes
September 30, 2020
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Office planning study

A new Radware study shows: Pandemic-related changes in companies in the areas of people, processes and applications are permanent. The vast majority (83%) of C-level executives expect that the changes they have made to people, processes and applications in response to the COVID-19 pandemic will survive the pandemic. This is the main result of the study "C-Suite Perspectives: Accelerated Cloud Migration but Lagging Security" that the security specialist Radware conducted with top managers worldwide. In the survey, 44% of the executives surveyed reported negative impacts of the crisis on budgets,…

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