The Covid-19 crisis has tested business cyber security to the limit, with the unprecedented switch to working from home and digital commerce being matched by an equally huge uplift in cyber-crime, from phishing attacks to malware issues.
As remote working has become the “new normal”, so too has the use of insecure devices and networks outside of the usual protection of the physical office environment, laying businesses open to attack from those intent on stealing their credentials and defrauding them.
On top of that, there are all the less sinister but equally damaging issues of data loss incurred by hardware failure and accidental deletion.
In the past 12 months:
- 96% of UK businesses have suffered a damaging cyber attack
- 80% of law firms have reported phishing attempts
- 76% of local councils have experienced cyber attacks and data breaches
- 51% of organisations have been affected by ransomware
- 1 in 3 laptops have been lost or stolen
- 3 million hard drives have failed
And, by 2020, it’s estimated that 70% of businesses will have suffered disruption caused by unrecoverable data loss in a cloud-based application.
Expert advice on improving your cyber security
So how do you protect your business? That’s the question CloudyIT set out to answer on Cyber Monday, by hosting a free Cyber Security Virtual Summit, streamed live on Facebook, LinkedIn and YouTube, with a panel of industry-leading experts:
- Dr Francis Gaffney, director of threat intelligence at Mimecast – an international authority on cloud security for email, data and web.
- Peter Elliot, CloudyIT’s independent data protection and cyber security consultant – helping companies to mitigate cyber threats by becoming Cyber Essentials
- Dave Oxley, STEM ambassador and senior security adviser at McAfee – focusing on building system security from the ground up, through simple procedures and policies.
- Adam Salley, senior business continuity specialist (Europe, the Middle East and Africa) for Datto – expert in data backup, recovery and business continuity solutions.
- Cloudy Group director David Hall – specialising in digitally transforming councils, legal firms and SMEs to improve their efficiency, productivity and security.
During a series of engaging, information-packed presentations and interactive Q&A sessions, they advised attendees from councils, legal firms and SMEs of the effective strategies available to strengthen their cyber hygiene.
In case you missed it, here’s a quick tour of the highlights:
Exclusive summit deals – up to 50% off for attendees
If you were an attendee, check out our time-limited Cyber Monday summit deals, offering up to 50% off some of the main cyber-security solutions we discussed during the event.
- SaaS protection with DataSafe Cloud – first month free
Protect your business’s Microsoft 365 critical programs against deletion, ransomware attacks and other cloud data loss, with automated backups three times a day and unlimited data retention. Offer available until 31 December 2020.
- Cloud continuity with DataSafe Ultimate – 30% off a 1-year commitment
Safeguard your business data on any physical, virtual or cloud infrastructure against all types of data loss, both accidental and malicious, by turning back the clock to before the attack happened. Offer available until 31 December 2020.
- SIRIS hardware with DataSafe Premium – 50% discount on 3-year+ contracts
For on-premise backup of your server and virtual server environment, SIRIS provides a complete solution, enabling all-in-one business continuity and disaster recovery, so you can restore normal operations in minutes. Limited to orders placed before 31 December 2020.
- Up to 2 hours’ free cyber security consultation – only four slots available
Do you have cyber security concerns, such as perceived gaps in your systems, suspicious activity, staff training, storage encryption or email management? Or do you just need some good cyber-hygiene tips? We’ll review your needs and provide tailored recommendations for protecting your infrastructure and organisation from cyber threats. Strictly limited to the first four assessments booked before 31 December 2020.
Click here for full details of our exclusive deals
Register for our 2021 events
This was the first in a series of summits we’re hosting over the coming 12 months and we’re confident they’ll go down as well with participants as this one did. The next three events will be focusing on, respectively:
- Meeting management and DMS solutions
- Turbocharging your cloud productivity
- Corporate social responsibility and the environment
Register your interest now for our summits and other CloudyIT events, so you can continue thriving – not just surviving – in the post-Covid world.
