As more infrastructure is moved to the cloud, there are many opportunities to reconsider your security stance and relationships to build ever stronger and more secure IT solutions whilst reducing your security costs. In this post, I’m looking to explore some ways that you can build out your alliances to be better prepared and battle-worthy on the digital security war front.

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With the explosive growth of Microsoft 365, many companies are suddenly experiencing content sprawl at an unprecedented rate. What is content sprawl? It’s when your employees create unstructured content (files, chats, video) in the course of their workday, which then gets stored in multiple repositories, like SharePoint and OneDrive. Accelerate that in the context of a remote workforce, and you suddenly have content sprawling all over the place.

In the second of our three-part series, we highlight the most common cloud security challenges. When migrating infrastructure and services to the cloud it is vital to establish a clear strategy to avoid new security risks. As moving to the cloud can vastly widen the attack surface, it’s important to check whether current security controls will still be effective when migration is complete.

A few weeks ago, researching another topic, I posed a question - Which domain within the security ecosystem has struggled to move the needle over the past few years? After trawling through a multitude of annual breach analysts reports (Verizon Breach Report, M-Trends, et al., I concluded that “identities accessing cloud infrastructure” was an irritatingly tough nut to crack.

With cloud computing growing at a phenomenal rate across the world, shifts in consumer behavior towards digital services are resulting in evolutionary changes for the banking, financial services and insurance industry. Cloud-based banking, for example, is regarded as a catalyst for business transformation and a turning point in financial services. Cyber safety, however, has become a key concern holding back cloud adoption in many organizations.

The COVID-19 pandemic has increased the already-robust adoption rates for employee monitoring software. Prominent publications, including The Washington Post and The New York Times, have reported on this trend, and they have documented employees’ general unease about the practice. Indeed, even before employees were relegated to their homes, many were uncomfortable with the idea of invasive and unbridled digital oversight.

A cybersecurity bulletin was released by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on October 28, 2020. The three agencies have issued a high-level warning about an increased, imminent threat of ransomware attacks in the healthcare sector. The cybercriminal group behind the TrickBot, Ryuk, and BazarLoader malware is now targeting U.S. hospitals and healthcare providers.

Today Calligo announces it has completed the acquisition of Cinnte Technologies, a Cavan- and Dublin-based MSP, specialising in managed IT, cloud and security services. This marks Calligo’s eighth international acquisition in three years, and the third in Ireland in 2020, reinforcing Calligo’s position as one of Ireland’s largest IT managed services providers in terms of resources, market share and especially breadth of services.

What if all your employees lost access to their data and tools right now? What if every platform you use to communicate with your staff and your customers went down right now? Companies rarely get an advanced warning that a disaster is about to strike. There is no time to prepare, and no time to protect your company from the fallout. That time has passed, and for companies without a business continuity plan, all that is left to do is lament how poorly prepared they were.