For years, cyber security experts have predicted a shift towards hybrid working – but they weren’t expecting it to come so suddenly and as a result of a global crisis. Nonetheless, they have been proven right, with millions of organisations deciding to keep their remote set-up even as the pandemic subsides. To make hybrid work a success, though, organisations must regularly evaluate their IT processes. According to a UKG study, 87% of UK employers accelerated…

Migrating your workloads to the cloud has never been easier. Even your business-critical apps – those that can’t risk any downtime or changes to security posture – can be migrated seamlessly using VMware infrastructure, with no changes to the app. You may have thought this was impossible and sounds too good to be true. Well, that’s what we do at VMware, make the seemingly impossible, possible. Learn how Stirling National Bank executed a seamless cloud…

VMware Cloud on AWS GovCloud (US) has reached FedRAMP Authority to Operate at the High Impact Level. The service brings VMware’s rich SDDC software to the AWS GovCloud (US) region, allowing US government agencies to securely run applications across vSphere®-based environments with optimized access to native AWS services. We are excited to announce that VMware Cloud on AWS GovCloud(US) service has achieved Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) High impact level agency authorization. This…

Data breaches have reached a fever pitch over the last few years. The rapid frequency of successful attacks coupled with the rising costs to businesses has raised attention at the highest levels of global governments. In the past, breaches were relatively “localized,” that is, they affected the targeted company only. However, the newer attacks have disrupted entire supply chains. While many companies have invested large sums to protect against such attacks, part of a fulsome security program…

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) Act is a broad set of data privacy rules that define how an organization must handle and protect the personal data of citizens of the European Union (EU). The Regulation also outlines the way that organizations can report a data breach. Articles 33 and 34 outline the requirements for breach notification; however, most businesses are still unaware of their responsibilities. Details such as what an organization should report, when, to…

By eSentire There is no doubt that cloud adoption is accelerating at an exponential rate. Whether it’s for business collaboration or to store critical data assets, organizations are increasingly relying on the cloud–– in fact, recent reports have found that 62% of organizations utilize at least two cloud platforms. As a result of this acceleration, we have also seen a multitude of data breaches occurring due to misconfigurations in the cloud, which occur because of…