The Rise of Ransomware Ransomware. Malicious software which encrypts files on a system without the user’s consent and then demands payment to release the information. In the past year, Ransomware has made the headlines on numerous occasions as the primary malicious threat facing organisational IT systems. The primary reason being Ransomware’s new-found ability to rapidly…
The Growth of Hybrid Clouds Businesses have experienced an unprecedented digital disruption in the past ten years. The arrival of the commercial Internet in the early nineties and the dawn of web 2.0 in 2004 which created the social web, has created an environment where the rate of change in the digital space is exponential…
Multi Cloud Environments Create Flexibility and Complexity The unprecedent rate of change in today’s online world has forced organisations to get creative when it comes to creating applications and services to meet the demands of the constant state of flux they find themselves operating in. Aptly named digital disruption, this ‘new normal’ compels organisations to…
The Traditional View of Business Continuity Business has always seen data protection, disaster recovery and business continuity as a necessary evil. A cost for doing business but a cost which provides no real return on investment. While this may have been true during the last century when organisations were not so reliant on their IT…