industry news
NEW RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS GROWING THREAT OF DATA BREACHES IN PUBLIC SECTOR
Approximately two thirds of London ’ s citizens faced the threat of a potential data breach due to security failings in the capital ’ s 33 local authorities ( 32 London Boroughs and the City of London itself ). This is according to research conducted by digital identity management company Secure Cloudlink .
A Freedom of Information ( FOI ) request was issued to the 32 London Boroughs and the City of London authority to ascertain their security hygiene and to determine how well they protect their data . The results revealed that 64 per cent had experienced a data breach in the last four years , highlighting the challenges public sector departments face in managing digital information assets .
Cybercrime continues to remain an ongoing threat both to individuals and organisations . The Office of National Statistics ( ONS ) revealed that there have been more that 3.8 million incidents of cybercrime in the past year alone , and despite Philip Hammond recently unveiling a £ 1.9bn package designed to boost Britain ’ s defences against the growing threat of cybercrime , evidence suggests that a lot still needs to be done to mitigate this issue .
Mark Leonard , chairman at Secure Cloudlink , commented , ‘ We issued these questions to London ’ s councils to gauge the security hygiene of the public sector . The sheer number of councils that have been breached is astonishing and reveals the issue of security is more prevalent than ever . There is a mass market for stolen data and hackers have become increasingly sophisticated in their tactics . Despite cyber security falling higher on the government ’ s agenda , the issue persists . Organisations need to be endlessly diligent when it comes to putting the correct procedures in place to alleviate the growing security risks .’
Research reveals the emerging role of converged services to manage cloud complexity for UK businesses
Converged services will play an increasingly important role as IT priorities within UK organisations change , according to research published by Six Degrees Group ( 6DG ).
Instead of focusing purely on cost savings , IT leaders are now aiming to minimise cloud complexity and fragmentation of IT systems to deliver greater business value .
The survey of over 500 senior IT professionals from mid-sized UK organisations was carried out on behalf of 6DG by analyst house Freeform Dynamics . The top-line findings revealed that a mixture of three key factors are shifting in focus from cost to value ; 57 per cent of respondents are working to simplify IT infrastructure , 44 per cent are reducing time spent on IT operations to free up internal resources , and 44 per cent are better exploiting their suppliers in an effort to leverage external resources .
Seventy-two per cent of respondents are already making extensive or significant use of hosted or managed services to help them achieve these goals . This is only set to grow with 74 per cent predicting an increase in use of third party specialist providers .
TS IT - Network Rack
Make IT fast .... Make IT simple .... Make IT adapta
.... Make IT ea
ENCLOSURES POWER DISTRIBUTION
CLIMATE CONTROL